THE GAZETTE JUNE 15, 1905
BYRDSTOWN NEWS JUNE12
Old Mrs. Rains wife of Cal Rains living near Maupin, KY, about seven miles from here was murdered yesterday at her home. Don't know the particulars of the case, but from reports she was killed for money and most likely killed by her kinfolks. They had sold some land and got some money An the old lady was supposed to have the money, W. H. R.

THE GAZETTE JUNE 22, 1905
ALBANY (KY) JOURNAL
One of the most horrible deeds ever committed was perpetrated in this county last Monday. Mrs. Calvin Rains, an aged woman
in bad health and unable to sit up, was most foully, cowardly and shamefully murdered in her bed at her home near Maupin, KY, about six miles east of Albany. The family consist of the father, mother and two daughters at home and a married son and daughter away from home. The fathers says he was out in the garden at work and the daughters claim to have been in the barn shelling corn, and they did not know anything about it until it was over. They claim to have heard a racket at the house and started to go to see the cause, but when they got there, they found the mother dead. They say they saw two men entering the woods beyond the house and think probably they had done the killing. The woman had apparently been beaten to death with some heavy instrument and the only thing they found in the house a heavy iron shovel.
Suspicion at once fell on members of the family and they were at once arrested and brought to court, the grand jury being in session, they were closely questioned but there has not yet been any conclusion reached. The only motive given for the murder is that the guilty ones secured about $50 in money from a trunk that was near the dead woman's bed. A strap that bound it was found cut and the lid thrown open and the money gone. since this writing the above Calvin Rains has virtually confess to killing his wife with a stick.
From the research of Wilma Gibson Crabtree

Jemima's daughter Sopha in their family home;
1900 United States Federal Census
about Sopha Rains
Name: Sopha Rains
[Sopha Raino]
Age: 16
Birth Date: Feb 1884
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1900: Hays, Clinton, Kentucky
[Clinton]
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Calvin Rains
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Name: Jemima Rains
Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee
Occupation: View on Image
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Calvin Rains 69
Jemima Rains 58
James Rains 23
Waid Rains 20
Ermin Rains 19
Sopha Rains 16
Luann Rains 12

Sopha's death record showing her mother's maiden name;
Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947
about Sophie Taylor
Name: Sophie Taylor
[Sophie Rains]
Birth Date: 25 Feb 1884
Birth Place: Pall Mal, Tennessee
Death Date: 6 Oct 1936
Death Place: Danville, Vermilion, Illinois
Burial Date: 8 Oct 1936
Burial Place: Hoopeston, Vermilion, Ill
Death Age: 52
Occupation: Housewife
Race: White
Marital Status: M
Gender: Female
Residence: Hoopeston, Vermilion, Ill
Father Name: Calvin Rains <<<<
Father Birth Place: Jamestown, Tennessee
Mother Name: Jemimah Crabtree <<<<
Mother Birth Place: Jamestown, Tennessee
Spouse Name: Bunny West Taylor
FHL Film Number: 1766271