Virginia Philip (Rainey) Glover (1818 - 1891)

Born 18 Aug 1818 in Putnam, Georgia

Wife of John J Glover — married 6 May 1841 in Putnam, Georgia, United States

Descendants

Died 6 Jun 1891 at age 72 in Putnam, Georgia

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Biography

Virginia was born in 1818. She passed away in 1891.

Sources

• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/33440359/person/18653799672/story

Virginia Philip Rainey was born on August 18, 1818, the second oldest child. Her name is a tribute to the land of her parents’ extraction and to her father’s younger brother Philip. Virginia married John J. Glover in Putnam on May 6, 1841. This was not John's first matrimonial endeavor, however. On December 11, 1834 in neighboring Jasper County he wed Christiana Goods, herself a widow. The 1840 census shows him housed with her and their two children, Elizabeth and Henry Harrison. The first Mrs. Glover must have perished because there is no further record of her. In 1850 John and Virginia still resided in Putnam but were soon to relocate to Houston County, where John, a farmer, listed the value of his assets at $1,075 in 1860.

Virginia's father died in 1855, and her mother followed him five years later. Soon thereafter there was a rupture between Virginia and John, perhaps caused or aggravated by the death of their son in the Civil War. The 1870 census discloses that they were separated. Virginia returned to Putnam and was living in Eatonton. John stayed in Houston and was joined in his household by a woman, Aurilla Glover. It appears they continued to live apart, and in May 1880 John died. In the census conducted the next month Virginia replied that her ‘civil condition’ was ‘widow,’ which complicates the thesis that they were divorced. (Either they divorced, were separated and John did not marry Aurilla, or he committed bigamy.) Virginia died in Putnam or Jasper Counties on June 6, 1891 and is buried in Shady Dale’s only graveyard at Providence Baptist Church. Among the issue of their failed marriage was the youngest of four children, my great-great-great-grandmother Georgia Clifford Glover.

http://bookofgenerations.blogspot.com/2012/06/from-virginia-to-georgia.html