Reuben GAINES

Birth:
4 Aug 1815
Brewerton, Laurens, South Carolina
Death:
16 Nov 1899
Gordon, Georgia
Burial:
Oothcalooga Church Cem., Adairsville, Bartow, Georgia
Marriage:
27 Jul 1886
Rome, Floyd, Georgia
Sources:
Ancestral File (TM)
Clore-Glore Genealogy, p 72, p 148-149
Gaines Genealogy: One Line from 1620 to the Present Time, p 75-81
The History of Bartow County Formerly Cass, p 58
Internet IGI (Nov 2006)
Rootsweb.com
Notes:
                   The following information is from the Clore-Glore Genealogy manuscript byDelma Rae Carpenter, Sr. (1881-1967).  A copy of this is available at theMadison Co., VA Library.  This manuscript is a typescript  and update ofanother, handwritten, Clore-Glore Genealogy manuscript by Dr. ArthurLeslie Keith.  The original of Keith's manuscript is at the NewberryLibrary, Chicago., IL.  Please note that some of this information hasbeen updated by other researchers in the meantime and I'll try to addnotes with the current information.

Page 148:
       Reuben Gaines (son of James Gaines and wife Margaret Clore) was bornin Laurens Co., S.C., Aug. 4, 1815, died at Adairsville, Ga., Nov. 17,1899.  He settled near Adairsville, Ga., in 1837.  About 1856 he moved toAnderson Co., Texas, where he lived for about 15 years, then he movedback to Gordon Co., Ga.  He is buried in Oothcaloga cemetery.  He was afarmer and a deacon in the Baptist Church.

Lucy Josephine Cunyus, The History of Bartow County Formerly Cass,(Tribune Publishing Co., 1933), p 58-59:
       Reuben, b. 1815 in Laurens district, went to school in thatdistrict, m. Elizabeth Walker in Jan. 1836 and moved near Adairsville andlived 19 years at the Tillman Leake place, then in 1856 he moved to Texasand during the Civil War served in the Texas state troops.  They returnedto Gordon county in 1871 and she died in 1886.  He m. Alice Sanders ofRome, and he died in 1899 and is buried in Oothcalooga.  Most of thechildren are identified with Texas in Navarro county.

Cass County, Georgia 1850 Federal Census
The 12 Division, p 208, Dwelling 1509, Family 1521
       Reuben Gaines  35 M SC   Farmer $2500
       Elizabeth "    37 F "
       James M. "     9 M "
       Milton "       8 M "
       Sarah "        7 F "
       Martha "       5 F "
       Louis P. "          1 M "

Cass County, Georgia 1850 Slave Owners
Gaines, Reuben 2 male slaves
            2 female slaves
            4 total slaves


This information is from the Descendants of Michael Clore Database © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 by Cathi Clore Frost.
                  
Alice SANDERS
Birth:
22 Oct 1853
Georgia
Death:
10 May 1914
Bartow, Georgia
Burial:
Oothcalooga Baptist Church Cem., Adairsville, Bartow, Georgia
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Sources:
Ancestral File (TM)
Clore-Glore Genealogy, p 149
The History of Bartow County Formerly Cass, p 59
Some Descendants of Richard Gaines of Old Rappahannock County, Virginia - The First Nine Generations
Notes:
                   This information is from the Descendants of Michael Clore Database © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 by Cathi Clore Frost.
                  
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Reuben Gaines - Alice Sanders

Reuben Gaines was born at Brewerton, Laurens, South Carolina 4 Aug 1815. His parents were James Gaines and Margaret Clore.

He married Alice Sanders 27 Jul 1886 at Rome, Floyd, Georgia . Alice Sanders was born at Georgia 22 Oct 1853 .

Reuben Gaines died 16 Nov 1899 at Gordon, Georgia .

Alice Sanders died 10 May 1914 at Bartow, Georgia .