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From: Wayne and Peggy Horton <>
Subject: Re: [RAINS] Rains from NC to Cherokee Co., AL
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 13:15:44 -0500
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Thank you, Jill, for sharing this -- it further supports what our
research has shown about these families. If they weren't connected
before they left North Carolina, the families did 'connect' later on
through marriage.

To add a little more information on the connections in this group of
families: My gggrandparents were Unity (BAILEY) and John RAINS. Unity
was a sister to Leasy (BAILEY), married to Berry STRICKLAND, Nancy
(BAILEY), married to Martin RAPER, and to Jesse BAILEY, married to
Mahala ?. They were in the group that left Johnston County together,
and after a short stay in Cherokee County, AL, eventually settled in
Itawamba County, MS. Martha (Patsy) RAINS, the oldest daughter of Unity
and John RAINS, married Jesse RAPER, the son of Nancy and Martin RAPER,
in 1853 in Itawamba County. After the death of Judith (JOHNSON) WOODARD
in Itawamba County, Cynthia (Sentha) RAINS, another daughter of Unity
and John RAINS, married Jonathan WOODARD, who died in McLennan Co, TX,
in January, 1870. Edna RAINS, another daughter of Unity and John,
married John Robert KENT, son of Bethany and John H. KENT. John W.
BAILEY, a son of Jesse and Mahala BAILEY, married a Matilda JOHNSON,
possibly connected with one of the JOHNSON families mentioned below.
There were other marriages among these families.

At the present time, we are waiting for DNA results to confirm more of
our research.

Peggy




wrote:

>Dear listers,
>
>I found this today and thought it might be helpful to some Rains researcher.
>
>>From the "Cherokee County Heritage" Jan. 1973 issue Vol. II No. I page 44
>
>"There was quite a large group in the little colony that left North Carolina
>and settled in Cherokee County, Alabama in 1837. They were all related or
>connected by marriage and all came from England to Virginia about the same time
>it is thought. The group included: Kader & wife Aunath WOODARD & three
>children; his mother, Mary Elizabeth (HORN) WOODARD; his brother, Jonathan WOODARD &
>his wife Judith (JOHNSON) WOODARD; Judith's parents, Soloman & wife Eunice
>(BAILEY) JOHNSON, and their son, Lewis JOHNSON who married Kader's sister Mary
>WOODARD in Cherokee County, Alabama about 1839; Nancy WOODARD & her husband,
>Arthur JOHNSON (cousin to Lewis and Judith JOHNSON); Delilah WOODARD; Bethany
>WOODARD and husband John Hilliard KENT; Pety WOODARD who married Jesse AIKEN in
>Cherokee County between 1837 & 1840; and Jesse WOODARD and his wife Sarah.
>Also in this little colony were the RAINS, BAILEYs, HORNs, STRICKLANDs,
>HOLLIMANs, and KENTs. They stayed for a time in Cherokee County. In 1840 or 1841 all
>of this group moved on west to Itawamba County (now Lee County), Mississippi
>where they settled permanently, except Kader WOODARD & his family (wife &
>children) and his mother, Mary Elizabeth WOODARD, and possibly his brother, Jesse
>WOODARD and family. We believe Kader's first name was Stephen and that he is
>the one who received a land grant of 80.10 acres in the southern part of
>Cherokee County near Coloma in 1845. This 80 acres is now a part of Ellis Brothers
>Estate."
>
>This did not mention how the RAINS family was connected to this WOODARD
>family, but I thought it showed the migration of this other family and could
>possibly give a clue to the RAINS family they were speaking of.
>
>
>Blessings,
>
>Jill Watters Rains
>
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