David Lemuel RAINEY

                   NAME:  This IS his given name.
                  

                   SOURCES: 1.  Endowment House records #183404
                 2. Logan Temple Records, Richmond,
                 3. Utah Cemetary Records
                 4. Orson F. Whitney, History of Utah, Vol. 1, p.264
                 5. Andrew Jenson, Encyclopedia of the Church, p.265, 820
    Jesse D. Hunter, Captain.David P. Rainey, 1st Corporal.
    Elam Luddington, lst Lieutenant.Thomas Dunn, 2nd Corporal.
    Ruel Barrus, 2nd Lieutenant.John D. Chase, 3rd Corporal.
    Philemon C. Merrill, 3rd Lieutenant.William Hunter, Musician.
    William Coray, 1st Orderly Sergeant.George W. Taggart, Musician.
    William Hyde, 2nd Orderly Sergeant.Albert Smith, 3rd Orderly Sergeant.
    
NOTES:  In  1839 and  1840 Elder Jedediah M. Grant introduced the restored gospel to  Burkes Garden,  Virginia, at which time he read from a manuscript of the prophecy of  the  Prophet Joseph Smith concerning the Civil War, which was ridiculed,  but many  of his hearers lived to see the p.821] prophecy fulfilled.  In 1839, also, missionary work was commenced in the state of  Mississippi by  Benjamin L. Clapp and others, and in 1846 a company of seventeen  families, in  charge of Wm. Crosby, migrated from Mississippi westward to Pueblo,  Colorado,  where they spent the winter of 18461847, and entered the Great Salt  Lake  Valley the next year (July 29, 1847), five days after Pres.  Brigham  Young'sn Valley the next year (July 29, 1847), five days after Pres. Brigham  Young's  arrival in the Valley. In 1875 Henry G. Boyle of Pima, Arizona,  laboring as a  missionary in Tennessee, established a branch of the Church at Shady  Grove,  Hickman Co., Tenn., and having reported an opening there for more missionaries, Elders George Teasdale, David P. Rainey, Joseph  Standing, John  Morgan, John D. T. McAllister, David Perry and John R. Winder were  called at a conference held in Salt Lake City in October, 1875, to labor in the  Southern States under the direction of Elder Boyle. The mission was to  consist of the states of Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and  Virginia. A  number of converts were made, many of whom migrated to Colorado,  Arizona and  New Mexico, uniting with the saints in these districts. San Luis  Valley,  Colo., was largely settled by saints from the Southern States.   David  P. Rainey was a member of the Mormon Battalion.