Elizabeth (Warren) Gaines (1765 - 1858)

Born 1765 in Culpeper County, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Humphrey Gaines — married 12 Feb 1789 in Culpeper County, Virginia

Descendants

Died 23 Feb 1858 at about age 93 in Clayton, Rabun County, Georgia

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Biography

Elizabeth Warren Gaines was born about 1765 in Culpeper County, Virginia Colony. She was married to Humphrey Gaines on 12 Feb 1789, in Goochland, Virginia, at the age of 24. Elizabeth and Humphrey were the parents of five boys: James C., Henry Strother, Allen R., Hiram, and William Jordan. They also had several daughters, but the their names are not known at this time.

Elizabeth died 23 February 1858, in Clayton, Rabun County, Georgia, at the age of 93. According to Find A Grave, she is buried in the Persimmon Baptist Cemetery in Clayton, Rabun County, Georgia (or the Hughes Family Cemetery, Cherokee County, Georgia). The Find A Grave Index also says that her parents are Ephraim and Susanna Warren. (More research needs to be done to verify that these are her parents.) Additionally, Find A Grave says the inscription on her grave stone reads: "In Memory of Elizabeth Gaines, Died Feb. 23, 1858". She is buried next to her sons, Andrew Gaines and Hiram Gaines. All have the same headstones and footstones.

Sources

• Dodd, Jordan. Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.
• Virginia Marriages:

Source Information Ancestry.com. Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2014.

Original data: Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

• Find a Grave:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25933759/elizabeth-gaines

Name: Elizabeth Warren

Spouse: Humphry Gaines

Marriage Date: 12 Feb 1789

Marriage Location: Culpeper County, Virginia

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