Revolutionary War Patriot. Rev. Benjamin Rainey was a patriot and Chaplain in the Revolutionary war who furnished supplies. During the war, his division was captured at Savannah, Georgia. He escaped before he could be taken prisoner and walked to his home in North Carolina. (Daughters of the American Revolution, Record Copy, 1977).
This family cemetery is a small plot, surrounded by stone walls, located at the corner of North and Cloverdale Streets in Burlington, NC. The front of the headstone lists the wife, Nancy Rainey, and the back lists Rev. Benjamin Rainey.
Rev. Rainey's daughter Rachel, married Michael Holt II and they are buried at the Holt Family Cemetery at the Alamance County Historical Museum.
Obituary for Benjamin Rainey
"RAINEY TIMES", VOLUME 5, JULY, 1985, P.69 (CLIPPING FROM RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA REGISTER, 14 JUNE 1811)
THE REV. BENJAMIN RAINEY
ON HAW RIVER, IN ORANGE COUNTY, ON THE 5TH INST. MUCH REGRETTED BY HIS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, THE REV. BENJAMIN RAINEY, AGED 52 YEARS, AFTER AN ILLNESS OF NEARLY SIX MONTHS, LEAVING A LARGE FAMILY OF CHILDREN. HE WAS THE ONLY SON OF HIS PARENTS, NOW
LIVING NEARLY 74 YEARS OF AGE.
∼Rainey Family Memorial: Rev. Benjamin Rainey and Nancy Rainey are both noted on the same head-stone on opposite sides. The graves are located in Burlington, NC on the corner of North and Cloverdale Streets, beside an active residential home.
This family cemetery is a small plot, surrounded by stone walls, located at the corner of North and Cloverdale Streets in Burlington, NC. The front of the headstone lists the wife, Nancy Rainey, and the back lists Rev. Benjamin Rainey.
Rev. Rainey's daughter Rachel, married Michael Holt II and they are buried at the Holt Family Cemetery at the Alamance County Historical Museum.
Obituary for Benjamin Rainey
"RAINEY TIMES", VOLUME 5, JULY, 1985, P.69 (CLIPPING FROM RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA REGISTER, 14 JUNE 1811)
THE REV. BENJAMIN RAINEY
ON HAW RIVER, IN ORANGE COUNTY, ON THE 5TH INST. MUCH REGRETTED BY HIS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, THE REV. BENJAMIN RAINEY, AGED 52 YEARS, AFTER AN ILLNESS OF NEARLY SIX MONTHS, LEAVING A LARGE FAMILY OF CHILDREN. HE WAS THE ONLY SON OF HIS PARENTS, NOW
LIVING NEARLY 74 YEARS OF AGE.
∼Rainey Family Memorial: Rev. Benjamin Rainey and Nancy Rainey are both noted on the same head-stone on opposite sides. The graves are located in Burlington, NC on the corner of North and Cloverdale Streets, beside an active residential home.
Revolutionary War Patriot. Rev. Benjamin Rainey was a patriot and Chaplain in the Revolutionary war who furnished supplies. During the war, his division was captured at Savannah, Georgia. He escaped before he could be taken prisoner and walked to his home in North Carolina. (Daughters of the American Revolution, Record Copy, 1977).
This family cemetery is a small plot, surrounded by stone walls, located at the corner of North and Cloverdale Streets in Burlington, NC. The front of the headstone lists the wife, Nancy Rainey, and the back lists Rev. Benjamin Rainey.
Rev. Rainey's daughter Rachel, married Michael Holt II and they are buried at the Holt Family Cemetery at the Alamance County Historical Museum.
Obituary for Benjamin Rainey
"RAINEY TIMES", VOLUME 5, JULY, 1985, P.69 (CLIPPING FROM RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA REGISTER, 14 JUNE 1811)
THE REV. BENJAMIN RAINEY
ON HAW RIVER, IN ORANGE COUNTY, ON THE 5TH INST. MUCH REGRETTED BY HIS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, THE REV. BENJAMIN RAINEY, AGED 52 YEARS, AFTER AN ILLNESS OF NEARLY SIX MONTHS, LEAVING A LARGE FAMILY OF CHILDREN. HE WAS THE ONLY SON OF HIS PARENTS, NOW
LIVING NEARLY 74 YEARS OF AGE.
∼Rainey Family Memorial: Rev. Benjamin Rainey and Nancy Rainey are both noted on the same head-stone on opposite sides. The graves are located in Burlington, NC on the corner of North and Cloverdale Streets, beside an active residential home.
This family cemetery is a small plot, surrounded by stone walls, located at the corner of North and Cloverdale Streets in Burlington, NC. The front of the headstone lists the wife, Nancy Rainey, and the back lists Rev. Benjamin Rainey.
Rev. Rainey's daughter Rachel, married Michael Holt II and they are buried at the Holt Family Cemetery at the Alamance County Historical Museum.
Obituary for Benjamin Rainey
"RAINEY TIMES", VOLUME 5, JULY, 1985, P.69 (CLIPPING FROM RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA REGISTER, 14 JUNE 1811)
THE REV. BENJAMIN RAINEY
ON HAW RIVER, IN ORANGE COUNTY, ON THE 5TH INST. MUCH REGRETTED BY HIS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, THE REV. BENJAMIN RAINEY, AGED 52 YEARS, AFTER AN ILLNESS OF NEARLY SIX MONTHS, LEAVING A LARGE FAMILY OF CHILDREN. HE WAS THE ONLY SON OF HIS PARENTS, NOW
LIVING NEARLY 74 YEARS OF AGE.
∼Rainey Family Memorial: Rev. Benjamin Rainey and Nancy Rainey are both noted on the same head-stone on opposite sides. The graves are located in Burlington, NC on the corner of North and Cloverdale Streets, beside an active residential home.
Gravesite Details
The headstone was repaired by Askew Peterson Monuments, the Battle of Alamance Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Sons of the American Revolution through donations, and is now fully intact.
