Eda (Unknown) Rains (1843 - 1939)

Born 1843 in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States

Wife of Claibourn Raines — married 15 Jul 1866 in Cherokee, Texas, United States

Descendants

Died 8 Dec 1939 at about age 96 in Rusk, Cherokee, Texas, United States

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Biography

Eda (Unknown) Rains is a part of US Black heritage.

Eda Rains was interviewed in Douglasville, Texas about 1937 about her life, and her time as an enslaved person. The typescript is stamp dated, partially off the page, but appears to say July 7, 1937.

"I don't 'member my first marster, 'cause my mammy and Jim and John who was my brothers, and me was sold when I was seven and brought to Douglass, in Texas, to hire out. Befor' we lef' Little Rock, whar I was born, we was vaccinated for smallpox."

"But after awhile she sol' me to Marster Roack, and he bought my mother and my brothers, so we was togedder again."

"After freedom they tol' us we could go or stay. I stayed a while but I married Clainborn Rains and lived at Jacksonville. We had ten chillen."

Interview: Eda Rains was interviewed in Douglasville, Texas as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The results are made available by the Library of Congress. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ [1] Library of Congress - WPA - Slave Narrative - Eda Rains - Vol. 16, Part 3, Texas, pages 225-226, images 231-232 of 285.

• "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XL4S-HMC : 10 March 2021), Claibourn Raines and Elizabeth Roark, 15 Jul 1866; citing Cherokee, Texas, United States, county courthouses, Texas; FHL microfilm 988,076.

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXGL-2B3 : 29 May 2021), Claiborn Raines, 1870.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFFY-MXK : 20 February 2021), Maggie Raines in household of Clabe Raines, Precinct 1, Cherokee, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district ED 11, sheet 281C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,295.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M29V-MZF : accessed 29 October 2021), Maggie Carr in household of Clabe Raines, Rusk, Cherokee, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 10, sheet 6A, family 103, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1538; FHL microfilm 1,375,551.

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHTS-V1X : 3 February 2021), Claiborne Rains, 1920.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:C7DF-P6Z : accessed 29 October 2021), Elizabeth Carr in household of Maggie H Carr, Rusk, Cherokee, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1, sheet 3A, line 37, family 68, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2307; FHL microfilm 2,342,041.

• "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3MJ-2BM : 20 February 2021), Eda Raines, 08 Dec 1939; citing certificate number 54163, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,118,412.