NO HEADSTONE
Thomas married Francis M. H. Harper in 1859 and they had ten children: Kate, Lura, John William, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Mary Elizabeth, Matilda Jane, Adley Theodore, Sarah Villulia, Thomas and Tiny Frances.
Gonzales Inquirer, TX
Feb. 11, 1892
Died,-At his residence near Zedlars Mill, Gonzales county, Texas, January 20, 1892, Thos. F. Rainey. Deceased, was born at Abbeville, S.C., December 27, 1828, came to Texas in February, 1854, affiliated with Lone Star Lodge, A. F. & A. M. No. 450, August 14, 1886, and was buried with full Masonic honors at Leesburg on January 21, 1892.
Resolved, 1. That in the death of Thos. F. Rainey Lone Star Lodge, A. F. & A. M., loses a faithful and consistent member, a sympathetic and loving brother, and one of whom it may truthfully be said "he mourned with those that wept and rejoiced with the happy," our lose is his gain, but a vacancy is in our ranks which will be hard to fill. For consolation we look forward to a meeting with our lamented brother in a "world not made with hands eternal in the heavens" and pray that we may also be as well prepared to cross the dark river.
2.That the sympathy of the Brotherhood is hereby extended to the bereaved family in their great affliction.
3. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of our deceased brother and a copy furnished The Gonzales Inquirer for publication.
A.S. Billings,
A. J. Patterson,
H. Wallis.
Committee
(From Cindy 47210136)
The History of Gonzales County, Texas p. 447
Thomas F. Rainey was the oldest child of Entrekin Rainey and his wife, Matilda PERRIN Haney, of Abbeville District, South Carolina. His mother died in 1853 and Thomas F. and his brother, John H.Rainey were her sole heirs. (Abbeville Co. Probate Records, indexed under Matilda P. Roney). His father was on a tax list in Morgan Co., Georgia in 1842, and died in 1850.
Thomas Fulton Rainey, wrote in his memoirs:
"My parents separated 1835, father taking me with him to Georgia...teaching being his occupation...between sessions he drank to excess, ruined his mind, wasted his property...my father was mostly a moral man and had it not been for ardent spirits he might have enjoyed a sufficiency of this world's goods, have been an honorable citizen, a more useful man...he never-the-less a kind father and took great care to leave impressions of morality and religion upon my mind...father died in Atlanta 1850. Mother was a consistent member of Methodist-Episcopal Church, Tranquil, South Carolina until her death 1852...at age fourteen some serious impressions were made upon my mind but they soon vanished...at eighteen I worked as apprentice for C.R. Hamilton, Editor-Publisher, "South Miscellany", Madison, Georgia, the office being moved to Atlanta 1847 and there was written my grasp, I yielded a willing victim to vice, I drank, gambled, blasphemed...had it not been for a few restraints I might have ended my life upon the gallows or served a term in the penitentiary, these restraints were my own conscience that checked me at a point when I was about to dive deeper into the scenes wickedness...I resolved to leave this place...I procurred a situation to teach in a private home near Abbeville...I had given my name to church upon going there and I left without appraising them of my design...1852 found me in Texas, teaching at Jefferson, Cass Counties, then took a school Harrison County, 1854 teaching De Witt County, 1857 taught Gonzales County, Sample School...much of that year was spent in fruitless resolves then at a camp meeting at Sulphur Springs on Sandies I taught and found peace to my troubled soul....I was appointed class leader, Hesterville church then licensed as local preacher, Methodist-Episcopal Church South..."
Submitted by MLPBailey #47041226
Thomas married Francis M. H. Harper in 1859 and they had ten children: Kate, Lura, John William, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Mary Elizabeth, Matilda Jane, Adley Theodore, Sarah Villulia, Thomas and Tiny Frances.
Gonzales Inquirer, TX
Feb. 11, 1892
Died,-At his residence near Zedlars Mill, Gonzales county, Texas, January 20, 1892, Thos. F. Rainey. Deceased, was born at Abbeville, S.C., December 27, 1828, came to Texas in February, 1854, affiliated with Lone Star Lodge, A. F. & A. M. No. 450, August 14, 1886, and was buried with full Masonic honors at Leesburg on January 21, 1892.
Resolved, 1. That in the death of Thos. F. Rainey Lone Star Lodge, A. F. & A. M., loses a faithful and consistent member, a sympathetic and loving brother, and one of whom it may truthfully be said "he mourned with those that wept and rejoiced with the happy," our lose is his gain, but a vacancy is in our ranks which will be hard to fill. For consolation we look forward to a meeting with our lamented brother in a "world not made with hands eternal in the heavens" and pray that we may also be as well prepared to cross the dark river.
2.That the sympathy of the Brotherhood is hereby extended to the bereaved family in their great affliction.
3. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of our deceased brother and a copy furnished The Gonzales Inquirer for publication.
A.S. Billings,
A. J. Patterson,
H. Wallis.
Committee
(From Cindy 47210136)
The History of Gonzales County, Texas p. 447
Thomas F. Rainey was the oldest child of Entrekin Rainey and his wife, Matilda PERRIN Haney, of Abbeville District, South Carolina. His mother died in 1853 and Thomas F. and his brother, John H.Rainey were her sole heirs. (Abbeville Co. Probate Records, indexed under Matilda P. Roney). His father was on a tax list in Morgan Co., Georgia in 1842, and died in 1850.
Thomas Fulton Rainey, wrote in his memoirs:
"My parents separated 1835, father taking me with him to Georgia...teaching being his occupation...between sessions he drank to excess, ruined his mind, wasted his property...my father was mostly a moral man and had it not been for ardent spirits he might have enjoyed a sufficiency of this world's goods, have been an honorable citizen, a more useful man...he never-the-less a kind father and took great care to leave impressions of morality and religion upon my mind...father died in Atlanta 1850. Mother was a consistent member of Methodist-Episcopal Church, Tranquil, South Carolina until her death 1852...at age fourteen some serious impressions were made upon my mind but they soon vanished...at eighteen I worked as apprentice for C.R. Hamilton, Editor-Publisher, "South Miscellany", Madison, Georgia, the office being moved to Atlanta 1847 and there was written my grasp, I yielded a willing victim to vice, I drank, gambled, blasphemed...had it not been for a few restraints I might have ended my life upon the gallows or served a term in the penitentiary, these restraints were my own conscience that checked me at a point when I was about to dive deeper into the scenes wickedness...I resolved to leave this place...I procurred a situation to teach in a private home near Abbeville...I had given my name to church upon going there and I left without appraising them of my design...1852 found me in Texas, teaching at Jefferson, Cass Counties, then took a school Harrison County, 1854 teaching De Witt County, 1857 taught Gonzales County, Sample School...much of that year was spent in fruitless resolves then at a camp meeting at Sulphur Springs on Sandies I taught and found peace to my troubled soul....I was appointed class leader, Hesterville church then licensed as local preacher, Methodist-Episcopal Church South..."
Submitted by MLPBailey #47041226
NO HEADSTONE
Thomas married Francis M. H. Harper in 1859 and they had ten children: Kate, Lura, John William, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Mary Elizabeth, Matilda Jane, Adley Theodore, Sarah Villulia, Thomas and Tiny Frances.
Gonzales Inquirer, TX
Feb. 11, 1892
Died,-At his residence near Zedlars Mill, Gonzales county, Texas, January 20, 1892, Thos. F. Rainey. Deceased, was born at Abbeville, S.C., December 27, 1828, came to Texas in February, 1854, affiliated with Lone Star Lodge, A. F. & A. M. No. 450, August 14, 1886, and was buried with full Masonic honors at Leesburg on January 21, 1892.
Resolved, 1. That in the death of Thos. F. Rainey Lone Star Lodge, A. F. & A. M., loses a faithful and consistent member, a sympathetic and loving brother, and one of whom it may truthfully be said "he mourned with those that wept and rejoiced with the happy," our lose is his gain, but a vacancy is in our ranks which will be hard to fill. For consolation we look forward to a meeting with our lamented brother in a "world not made with hands eternal in the heavens" and pray that we may also be as well prepared to cross the dark river.
2.That the sympathy of the Brotherhood is hereby extended to the bereaved family in their great affliction.
3. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of our deceased brother and a copy furnished The Gonzales Inquirer for publication.
A.S. Billings,
A. J. Patterson,
H. Wallis.
Committee
(From Cindy 47210136)
The History of Gonzales County, Texas p. 447
Thomas F. Rainey was the oldest child of Entrekin Rainey and his wife, Matilda PERRIN Haney, of Abbeville District, South Carolina. His mother died in 1853 and Thomas F. and his brother, John H.Rainey were her sole heirs. (Abbeville Co. Probate Records, indexed under Matilda P. Roney). His father was on a tax list in Morgan Co., Georgia in 1842, and died in 1850.
Thomas Fulton Rainey, wrote in his memoirs:
"My parents separated 1835, father taking me with him to Georgia...teaching being his occupation...between sessions he drank to excess, ruined his mind, wasted his property...my father was mostly a moral man and had it not been for ardent spirits he might have enjoyed a sufficiency of this world's goods, have been an honorable citizen, a more useful man...he never-the-less a kind father and took great care to leave impressions of morality and religion upon my mind...father died in Atlanta 1850. Mother was a consistent member of Methodist-Episcopal Church, Tranquil, South Carolina until her death 1852...at age fourteen some serious impressions were made upon my mind but they soon vanished...at eighteen I worked as apprentice for C.R. Hamilton, Editor-Publisher, "South Miscellany", Madison, Georgia, the office being moved to Atlanta 1847 and there was written my grasp, I yielded a willing victim to vice, I drank, gambled, blasphemed...had it not been for a few restraints I might have ended my life upon the gallows or served a term in the penitentiary, these restraints were my own conscience that checked me at a point when I was about to dive deeper into the scenes wickedness...I resolved to leave this place...I procurred a situation to teach in a private home near Abbeville...I had given my name to church upon going there and I left without appraising them of my design...1852 found me in Texas, teaching at Jefferson, Cass Counties, then took a school Harrison County, 1854 teaching De Witt County, 1857 taught Gonzales County, Sample School...much of that year was spent in fruitless resolves then at a camp meeting at Sulphur Springs on Sandies I taught and found peace to my troubled soul....I was appointed class leader, Hesterville church then licensed as local preacher, Methodist-Episcopal Church South..."
Submitted by MLPBailey #47041226
Thomas married Francis M. H. Harper in 1859 and they had ten children: Kate, Lura, John William, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Mary Elizabeth, Matilda Jane, Adley Theodore, Sarah Villulia, Thomas and Tiny Frances.
Gonzales Inquirer, TX
Feb. 11, 1892
Died,-At his residence near Zedlars Mill, Gonzales county, Texas, January 20, 1892, Thos. F. Rainey. Deceased, was born at Abbeville, S.C., December 27, 1828, came to Texas in February, 1854, affiliated with Lone Star Lodge, A. F. & A. M. No. 450, August 14, 1886, and was buried with full Masonic honors at Leesburg on January 21, 1892.
Resolved, 1. That in the death of Thos. F. Rainey Lone Star Lodge, A. F. & A. M., loses a faithful and consistent member, a sympathetic and loving brother, and one of whom it may truthfully be said "he mourned with those that wept and rejoiced with the happy," our lose is his gain, but a vacancy is in our ranks which will be hard to fill. For consolation we look forward to a meeting with our lamented brother in a "world not made with hands eternal in the heavens" and pray that we may also be as well prepared to cross the dark river.
2.That the sympathy of the Brotherhood is hereby extended to the bereaved family in their great affliction.
3. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of our deceased brother and a copy furnished The Gonzales Inquirer for publication.
A.S. Billings,
A. J. Patterson,
H. Wallis.
Committee
(From Cindy 47210136)
The History of Gonzales County, Texas p. 447
Thomas F. Rainey was the oldest child of Entrekin Rainey and his wife, Matilda PERRIN Haney, of Abbeville District, South Carolina. His mother died in 1853 and Thomas F. and his brother, John H.Rainey were her sole heirs. (Abbeville Co. Probate Records, indexed under Matilda P. Roney). His father was on a tax list in Morgan Co., Georgia in 1842, and died in 1850.
Thomas Fulton Rainey, wrote in his memoirs:
"My parents separated 1835, father taking me with him to Georgia...teaching being his occupation...between sessions he drank to excess, ruined his mind, wasted his property...my father was mostly a moral man and had it not been for ardent spirits he might have enjoyed a sufficiency of this world's goods, have been an honorable citizen, a more useful man...he never-the-less a kind father and took great care to leave impressions of morality and religion upon my mind...father died in Atlanta 1850. Mother was a consistent member of Methodist-Episcopal Church, Tranquil, South Carolina until her death 1852...at age fourteen some serious impressions were made upon my mind but they soon vanished...at eighteen I worked as apprentice for C.R. Hamilton, Editor-Publisher, "South Miscellany", Madison, Georgia, the office being moved to Atlanta 1847 and there was written my grasp, I yielded a willing victim to vice, I drank, gambled, blasphemed...had it not been for a few restraints I might have ended my life upon the gallows or served a term in the penitentiary, these restraints were my own conscience that checked me at a point when I was about to dive deeper into the scenes wickedness...I resolved to leave this place...I procurred a situation to teach in a private home near Abbeville...I had given my name to church upon going there and I left without appraising them of my design...1852 found me in Texas, teaching at Jefferson, Cass Counties, then took a school Harrison County, 1854 teaching De Witt County, 1857 taught Gonzales County, Sample School...much of that year was spent in fruitless resolves then at a camp meeting at Sulphur Springs on Sandies I taught and found peace to my troubled soul....I was appointed class leader, Hesterville church then licensed as local preacher, Methodist-Episcopal Church South..."
Submitted by MLPBailey #47041226
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