Life History

Other facts

Notes

• A few genealogies report Isaac's second wife to be named Dorcas with no maiden name known, but without any documentation for the name.  This may be a misreading of the 1870 and 1880 census listing under Isaac in his household.  Dorcas was the oldest daughter in the household at that time.  Dorcas Rinehart is reported in the 1850 census as the four-year-old daughter of Isaac and Susan (Gregory) Rinehart.  No record of the second wife has been found in records.
  
  The only Dorcas Rinehart we have found is the daughter of Isaac, in his household after the death of her mother, as the oldest child, until 1880 at the age of 33.  But the implications of this are not desirable.  Even though Isaac was a widowed head of household with no wife in the home in 1870 and 1880, in 1880 two new children appear, Magnolia, age 3 and Rhoda, age 7.  Some genealogies report these, as reported by this census, as the daughters of Isaac Rinehart and another wife named Dorcas with no surname known.  But the enumerator may have made an error, and these were daughters of Dorcas out of wedlock, and were reported here as daughters of the head of the household, Dorcas' father.
  
  1880 Federal Census, Jefferson County, Tennessee, 15 June, Civil District 10, page 16, Enumeration District 66, Hse #134, Fam #136
  Rheinhart, Isaac  W M 29 (Head) Widowed Farming Cannot Read or Write TN TN TN
  Rheinhart, Dorcas  W F 33 Dau Single Housekeeper Cannot Read or Write TN TN TN
  Rheinhart, Martha  W F 19 Dau Single Housekeeper Cannot Read or Write TN TN TN
  Rheinhart, Margarett  W F 17 Dau Single Housekeeper Cannot Write TN TN TN
  Rheinhart, Nathaniel G  W M 5 Son Single Works on Farm Cannot Write TN TN TN
  Rheinhart, Magnolia W F 3 Dau Single At Home Cannot Write TN TN TN
  Rheinhart, Rhoda  W M 7 Son At Home Cannot Read or Write TN TN TN
  
  But the 1900 census reports Dorcas Rinehart, under this surname, in the household of Rhoda Rinehart Killian, and reported as Rhoda's mother (as mother-in-law of head of the household, Rhoda's husband Joel Killian).
  
  1900 Federal Census, Jefferson County, Tennessee, 5 June, 17th Civil District, Enumeration District 55, page 2B, Hse/Fam #36
  Killian, Joel Head  W M (birth date not rptd) 27 Married 6 years TN TN TN Farmer Rents
  Killian, Rhoda P Wife W F May 1878  22 Married 6 yrs 5 children/3 living TN TN TN
  Killian, Minnie S Dau W F Dec 1891  8 Single TN TN TN
  Killian, William A Son W M June 1897  2 Single TN TN TN
  Killian, Ora S Dau W F Sept 1898  1 Single TN TN TN
  Rinehart, Dorcus  Mother-in-law W F (birth date not rptd) 53 Single 2 children/2 living TN TN TN
  Proffitt, Benaga [Benajah] Lodger W M Jan 1840  60 Single TN NC TN
  
  Here Dorcas is reported as single.  Binaga (Binajah) Proffitt is reported as Single and a Lodger in this household.  These two are reported as the parents or Nala Proffitt France.  But Nala was born in 1867, and there is no report of a marriage of Dorcas, daughter of Isaac, or any other Dorcas Rinehart to Ben/Binajah Proffitt.  Perhaps they never married and later both wound up in this household of their daughter as unmarried parents.  We need more information.  Various sources report Dorcas Rinehart as the mother of Magnolia and Rhoda (reported above in 1880).
  
  Tennessee, Death Records, 1908-1958
  Nala France [Nala Proffitt]
  White, Female
  Age 88
  Birth 24 March 1867 Tennessee, USA
  Residence Rural Route 1, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee
  Father Ben Proffitt
  Mother Dorcas Rinehart
  Informant Mrs Carrie Martin, Newport
  Death 22 October 1955 Cocke, Tennessee, USA
  Cause of Death Cerebral Hemorrhage for 1 week, due to Cerebral Arteriosclerosis for 10 years, due to Hypertension for 10 years, Contributory Uremia for 5 days
  Burial 25 October 1955 Open Door Cemetery, Newport (Cocke County), Tennessee, by Browns Funeral Home, Newport
  Certificate #55-21847 filed 3 November 1955

Sources

• 1. 1880 Federal Census, Cocke County, Tennessee
  • 15 June, Civil District 10, Enumeration District 66, page 16, Hse #134, Fam #136
• 2. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 3. 1900 Federal Census, Jefferson County, Tennessee
  • 5 June, 17th Civil District, Enumeration District 55, page 2B, Hse/Fam #36