~~A.T. Rainey~~
Was born to parents Mathew F. Rainey and Polly Hobsen Rainey, of Georgia.
He had the following siblings;
Oscar F. 1820-1844, Christopher Columbus 1824-unk, Thaddeus A., Alexander, Sarah Albina, Martha Julia 1832-unk. & Frank 1837-unk. (Sarah married a Quarles)
He married Ann Elizabeth Quarles.
They had the following children;
1. Arthur 1852-1933
2. Frank Caro (married Dollie Fields)1869-1936
3. Annie (married a Ralph Lacy)1863-1886
4. Herbert (died as a child)1858
5. Lulah (died as a child)1858
On January 1, 1850 he married Ann E. Quarles of
Alabama; they had 7 children. The 1860 census listed Rainey and his family living in Palestine, Texas where he worked as a lawyer. In 1859 Rainey was elected to a seat in the Texas senate as a Democrat and represented the Twelfth Texas District through the regular session. He resigned in February 1860. Anderson County selected him to be one of three delegates to the Secession convention held in Austin where he voted to secede from the United States.
After the outbreak of the Civil War, Rainey organized the Anderson county Invincibles at Palestine on May 11, 1861. They were soon absorbed in to the First Texas Infantry, Company H, and Rainey was made major. He was promoted to lieutenant colonial on November 12, 1861, and then made colonel on January 2, 1862. In the battle at Gaines' Mill June 27, 1862, he was wounded and went home to Texas. Although he was unable to return to active military engagements, he was assigned to staff duty in Houston by Gen. John Bankhead Magruder. He was dropped from the rolls of the First Texas Infantry early in 1864 when he was succeeded by Frederick S. Bass.
Alexis Rainey resumed his law practice and farmed in Anderson County after the war. He remained active in public life; he was a presidential elector for Horace Greeley in the 1872 election. Rainey died in Elkhart, Texas on May 17, 1891.
Source; Handbook of Texas, Online
Family history; Dollye Sheridan Jeffus, Great-Grandaughter of A.T. Rainey
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A.T. RAINEY
Alexis Theodore Rainey, of Palestine, was born June 5, 1822, in Tuscaloosa county, Alabama, and was educated there. He was married in Union county, Ark., in 1852, to Miss Anna Quarles. Removing to Texas in December, 1854, he located in Palestine and began the practice of law, and soon acquired clients and fees. He was elected to the state senate of Texas, serving with ability for four years. A stern Democrat and state's rights man, when the war came in 1861 he raised a company at Palestine and went with it to Virginia, where it was mustered in the Confederate service as Company H, of the First Texas Infantry of Hood's famous brigade. At the battle of Eltham's Landing his regiment was the most active and daring. His gallantry in this fight was such that he was shortly thereafter chosen colonel of the First Texas. In the battle of Gaines' Mill, near Richmond, while leading his regiment he was so severely wounded that he was sent back to Texas. After his wounds had nearly healed and his general health improved the government placed him in command of Galveston Island, where there were about four thousand troops, and here he renderedi nvaluable service to the Confederate cause. After the war Col. Rainey practiced law for a while, but his general health was never fully restored after his wounds and illness caused by exposure in Virginia, and he retired to his plantation. He was again chosen a member of the Texas legislature, and was presidential elector of the Greely ticket. He died in May, 1891, near Elkhart, Anderson county, Texas, aged sixty-nine years.
[Transcribed by Nina Kramer, Source: Texans Who Wore the Gray, Volume I, by SidS. Johnson]
Was born to parents Mathew F. Rainey and Polly Hobsen Rainey, of Georgia.
He had the following siblings;
Oscar F. 1820-1844, Christopher Columbus 1824-unk, Thaddeus A., Alexander, Sarah Albina, Martha Julia 1832-unk. & Frank 1837-unk. (Sarah married a Quarles)
He married Ann Elizabeth Quarles.
They had the following children;
1. Arthur 1852-1933
2. Frank Caro (married Dollie Fields)1869-1936
3. Annie (married a Ralph Lacy)1863-1886
4. Herbert (died as a child)1858
5. Lulah (died as a child)1858
On January 1, 1850 he married Ann E. Quarles of
Alabama; they had 7 children. The 1860 census listed Rainey and his family living in Palestine, Texas where he worked as a lawyer. In 1859 Rainey was elected to a seat in the Texas senate as a Democrat and represented the Twelfth Texas District through the regular session. He resigned in February 1860. Anderson County selected him to be one of three delegates to the Secession convention held in Austin where he voted to secede from the United States.
After the outbreak of the Civil War, Rainey organized the Anderson county Invincibles at Palestine on May 11, 1861. They were soon absorbed in to the First Texas Infantry, Company H, and Rainey was made major. He was promoted to lieutenant colonial on November 12, 1861, and then made colonel on January 2, 1862. In the battle at Gaines' Mill June 27, 1862, he was wounded and went home to Texas. Although he was unable to return to active military engagements, he was assigned to staff duty in Houston by Gen. John Bankhead Magruder. He was dropped from the rolls of the First Texas Infantry early in 1864 when he was succeeded by Frederick S. Bass.
Alexis Rainey resumed his law practice and farmed in Anderson County after the war. He remained active in public life; he was a presidential elector for Horace Greeley in the 1872 election. Rainey died in Elkhart, Texas on May 17, 1891.
Source; Handbook of Texas, Online
Family history; Dollye Sheridan Jeffus, Great-Grandaughter of A.T. Rainey
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A.T. RAINEY
Alexis Theodore Rainey, of Palestine, was born June 5, 1822, in Tuscaloosa county, Alabama, and was educated there. He was married in Union county, Ark., in 1852, to Miss Anna Quarles. Removing to Texas in December, 1854, he located in Palestine and began the practice of law, and soon acquired clients and fees. He was elected to the state senate of Texas, serving with ability for four years. A stern Democrat and state's rights man, when the war came in 1861 he raised a company at Palestine and went with it to Virginia, where it was mustered in the Confederate service as Company H, of the First Texas Infantry of Hood's famous brigade. At the battle of Eltham's Landing his regiment was the most active and daring. His gallantry in this fight was such that he was shortly thereafter chosen colonel of the First Texas. In the battle of Gaines' Mill, near Richmond, while leading his regiment he was so severely wounded that he was sent back to Texas. After his wounds had nearly healed and his general health improved the government placed him in command of Galveston Island, where there were about four thousand troops, and here he renderedi nvaluable service to the Confederate cause. After the war Col. Rainey practiced law for a while, but his general health was never fully restored after his wounds and illness caused by exposure in Virginia, and he retired to his plantation. He was again chosen a member of the Texas legislature, and was presidential elector of the Greely ticket. He died in May, 1891, near Elkhart, Anderson county, Texas, aged sixty-nine years.
[Transcribed by Nina Kramer, Source: Texans Who Wore the Gray, Volume I, by SidS. Johnson]
~~A.T. Rainey~~
Was born to parents Mathew F. Rainey and Polly Hobsen Rainey, of Georgia.
He had the following siblings;
Oscar F. 1820-1844, Christopher Columbus 1824-unk, Thaddeus A., Alexander, Sarah Albina, Martha Julia 1832-unk. & Frank 1837-unk. (Sarah married a Quarles)
He married Ann Elizabeth Quarles.
They had the following children;
1. Arthur 1852-1933
2. Frank Caro (married Dollie Fields)1869-1936
3. Annie (married a Ralph Lacy)1863-1886
4. Herbert (died as a child)1858
5. Lulah (died as a child)1858
On January 1, 1850 he married Ann E. Quarles of
Alabama; they had 7 children. The 1860 census listed Rainey and his family living in Palestine, Texas where he worked as a lawyer. In 1859 Rainey was elected to a seat in the Texas senate as a Democrat and represented the Twelfth Texas District through the regular session. He resigned in February 1860. Anderson County selected him to be one of three delegates to the Secession convention held in Austin where he voted to secede from the United States.
After the outbreak of the Civil War, Rainey organized the Anderson county Invincibles at Palestine on May 11, 1861. They were soon absorbed in to the First Texas Infantry, Company H, and Rainey was made major. He was promoted to lieutenant colonial on November 12, 1861, and then made colonel on January 2, 1862. In the battle at Gaines' Mill June 27, 1862, he was wounded and went home to Texas. Although he was unable to return to active military engagements, he was assigned to staff duty in Houston by Gen. John Bankhead Magruder. He was dropped from the rolls of the First Texas Infantry early in 1864 when he was succeeded by Frederick S. Bass.
Alexis Rainey resumed his law practice and farmed in Anderson County after the war. He remained active in public life; he was a presidential elector for Horace Greeley in the 1872 election. Rainey died in Elkhart, Texas on May 17, 1891.
Source; Handbook of Texas, Online
Family history; Dollye Sheridan Jeffus, Great-Grandaughter of A.T. Rainey
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A.T. RAINEY
Alexis Theodore Rainey, of Palestine, was born June 5, 1822, in Tuscaloosa county, Alabama, and was educated there. He was married in Union county, Ark., in 1852, to Miss Anna Quarles. Removing to Texas in December, 1854, he located in Palestine and began the practice of law, and soon acquired clients and fees. He was elected to the state senate of Texas, serving with ability for four years. A stern Democrat and state's rights man, when the war came in 1861 he raised a company at Palestine and went with it to Virginia, where it was mustered in the Confederate service as Company H, of the First Texas Infantry of Hood's famous brigade. At the battle of Eltham's Landing his regiment was the most active and daring. His gallantry in this fight was such that he was shortly thereafter chosen colonel of the First Texas. In the battle of Gaines' Mill, near Richmond, while leading his regiment he was so severely wounded that he was sent back to Texas. After his wounds had nearly healed and his general health improved the government placed him in command of Galveston Island, where there were about four thousand troops, and here he renderedi nvaluable service to the Confederate cause. After the war Col. Rainey practiced law for a while, but his general health was never fully restored after his wounds and illness caused by exposure in Virginia, and he retired to his plantation. He was again chosen a member of the Texas legislature, and was presidential elector of the Greely ticket. He died in May, 1891, near Elkhart, Anderson county, Texas, aged sixty-nine years.
[Transcribed by Nina Kramer, Source: Texans Who Wore the Gray, Volume I, by SidS. Johnson]
Was born to parents Mathew F. Rainey and Polly Hobsen Rainey, of Georgia.
He had the following siblings;
Oscar F. 1820-1844, Christopher Columbus 1824-unk, Thaddeus A., Alexander, Sarah Albina, Martha Julia 1832-unk. & Frank 1837-unk. (Sarah married a Quarles)
He married Ann Elizabeth Quarles.
They had the following children;
1. Arthur 1852-1933
2. Frank Caro (married Dollie Fields)1869-1936
3. Annie (married a Ralph Lacy)1863-1886
4. Herbert (died as a child)1858
5. Lulah (died as a child)1858
On January 1, 1850 he married Ann E. Quarles of
Alabama; they had 7 children. The 1860 census listed Rainey and his family living in Palestine, Texas where he worked as a lawyer. In 1859 Rainey was elected to a seat in the Texas senate as a Democrat and represented the Twelfth Texas District through the regular session. He resigned in February 1860. Anderson County selected him to be one of three delegates to the Secession convention held in Austin where he voted to secede from the United States.
After the outbreak of the Civil War, Rainey organized the Anderson county Invincibles at Palestine on May 11, 1861. They were soon absorbed in to the First Texas Infantry, Company H, and Rainey was made major. He was promoted to lieutenant colonial on November 12, 1861, and then made colonel on January 2, 1862. In the battle at Gaines' Mill June 27, 1862, he was wounded and went home to Texas. Although he was unable to return to active military engagements, he was assigned to staff duty in Houston by Gen. John Bankhead Magruder. He was dropped from the rolls of the First Texas Infantry early in 1864 when he was succeeded by Frederick S. Bass.
Alexis Rainey resumed his law practice and farmed in Anderson County after the war. He remained active in public life; he was a presidential elector for Horace Greeley in the 1872 election. Rainey died in Elkhart, Texas on May 17, 1891.
Source; Handbook of Texas, Online
Family history; Dollye Sheridan Jeffus, Great-Grandaughter of A.T. Rainey
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A.T. RAINEY
Alexis Theodore Rainey, of Palestine, was born June 5, 1822, in Tuscaloosa county, Alabama, and was educated there. He was married in Union county, Ark., in 1852, to Miss Anna Quarles. Removing to Texas in December, 1854, he located in Palestine and began the practice of law, and soon acquired clients and fees. He was elected to the state senate of Texas, serving with ability for four years. A stern Democrat and state's rights man, when the war came in 1861 he raised a company at Palestine and went with it to Virginia, where it was mustered in the Confederate service as Company H, of the First Texas Infantry of Hood's famous brigade. At the battle of Eltham's Landing his regiment was the most active and daring. His gallantry in this fight was such that he was shortly thereafter chosen colonel of the First Texas. In the battle of Gaines' Mill, near Richmond, while leading his regiment he was so severely wounded that he was sent back to Texas. After his wounds had nearly healed and his general health improved the government placed him in command of Galveston Island, where there were about four thousand troops, and here he renderedi nvaluable service to the Confederate cause. After the war Col. Rainey practiced law for a while, but his general health was never fully restored after his wounds and illness caused by exposure in Virginia, and he retired to his plantation. He was again chosen a member of the Texas legislature, and was presidential elector of the Greely ticket. He died in May, 1891, near Elkhart, Anderson county, Texas, aged sixty-nine years.
[Transcribed by Nina Kramer, Source: Texans Who Wore the Gray, Volume I, by SidS. Johnson]
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