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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Amelia Rains
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Amelia "Millie" Rains
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| LAST NAME: Rains
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FIRST NAME: Amelia
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MIDDLE NAME:
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NICKNAME: Millie
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| MAIDEN NAME: Cox
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AKA 1: Raines
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| TITLE: Mrs.
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GENDER: F
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| BORN: 15 May 1797
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DIED: 6 Jan 1894
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BURIED: 7 Jan 1894
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OCCUPATION: Housewife
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| BIRTH PLACE: Kentucky
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| DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
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NOTES:
BIOGRAPHICAL: Known as Millie and Grandma Rains. Father was Joseph Cox and her mother was Mary Pope. She married twice, first to Lewis Neal and second to John Raines. Called Nellie in one obit.
Rigdon Records: Grandma Rains, d. Jan. 6, 1894, age 97, funeral ordered by Mr. Rains.;
IOOF Register of Burials states Mrs Ranes, age 97, d. in Salem of "LaGrip", bur. Jan 7, 1894, mother of Mrs. Lewis Pettyjohn;
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DEATH CERTIFICATE:
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OBITUARY:
AUNT MILLIE RAINS.
Sketch of a Remarkable Pioneer Woman -- Number Hundreds of Descendants.
Mrs. Millie Rains who passed away on the 6th of this month was born in Kentucky May 14, 1797. Was first married in that state to Lewis Neal in about the year of 1815. At the death of her husband in about the year of 1820 she moved to Illinois with her three children (Mary Edwards, Daniel and William Neal) and was married to John Rains in 1825 and remained in that state until the following year when they moved to Indiana, where she remained until 1838 when they moved to Missouri. They came across the plains to California in ’57 and to Oregon the following year.
The subject of this sketch was the only daughter of Joseph and Mary Cox and also the last surviving member of a family of eleven children. Her ten brothers were Thomas Cox, died in Salem about 25 years ago and at one time was a stockholder in the old woolen mills in North Salem; Gideon Cox died some five or six years ago on his donation land claim near Silverton; Peter Cox, died also on his claim near the same place, and of Wm., Jacob, John, Joseph, James, Jesse and Elias, the writer has no history of and does not believe that any of them ever came to this state. "Aunt Millie," as she was familiarly called by all, was the mother of nine children, including the three above named. They are Mrs. Lewis Pettyjohn, Thomas Rains, Joseph Rains (now deceased), Gideon Rains and Jane Weaver, of Crook county. The oldest of her children would, if living, be a little over 80 years of age and the youngest 44 years. There are forty-six living grandchildren, one hundred and two great grand children and seven great great grandchildren.
In comparing her remarkable long life with history, we find her to have been 2½ years of age when Washington died. She was 7 years old when Lewis and Clarke made their eventful journey across the continent. She was 10 years old when Robert Fulton plowed the waters of the Hudson River with the first steamboat. Perry fought his memorable battle on the lakes when she was 16, and in the year when Jackson fought the great battle with the British at New Orleans she was married. She was a woman of 33 when the great debate occurred between Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne.
The JOURNAL takes pleasure in adding this tribute to the memory of a noble pioneer lady, whose goodness of heart and sterling character are attested by a worthy line of descendants. May she ever rest in peace and may they all respect her memory.
Weekly Capital Journal, Jan. 28, 1894, p. 4.
RAINES--At 7 o’clock, a.m., Saturday January 6, 1894, at the farm residence of Lewis Pettyjohn, southwest of Salem, Mrs. Nellie (sic) Raines, aged 97 years. Among the list of the earliest pioneers of Oregon, the deceased was numbered and she was one of the oldest women residents of this state. Her son-in-law, Lewis Pettyjohn, is nearly 80 years of age. She was the grandmother of Mrs. M. J. Crump of this city and the great-grandmother of Mrs. A. D. Davidson and Miss Lena Crump. The funeral will take place at 2 o’clock this afternoon from the home and interment [will be] in the Rural cemetery.
Oregon Statesman, January 7, 1894, p. 24.
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INSCRIPTION:
Our Mother
Millie Raines
Died Jan. 6, 1894
Aged 93 yrs. 7 mos. 22 da.
(as of March 2002 - marker completely worn and unreadable - transcription taken from S&H)
(photo available)
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SOURCES:
LR
LD
IOOF Register of Burials
DAR pg 52
Rigdon Records
IOOF Register of Burials
Sharon Proctor
OS 7 Jan 1894 24:?
WCJ 28 Jan 1894 pg 4:?
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CONTACTS:
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| LOT: 497
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SPACE: 3 SE
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LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.165'
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LATITUDE: W 123° 02.859'
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