Biography of Robert W. Rains - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 353

Robert W. Rains, a leading farmer of Jonesboro Township,
resides on his well improved farm three miles north of Jonesboro. His
parents were natives of Tennessee, in which State he was born August 27,
1847. His father. Hugh G. Rains, came to Craighead County, Ark in the
year 1871, locating in Powell Township on a farm of 270 acres, 100 of
which are improved, and resided there until his death in 1872. He was a
Mason and was buried with Masonic honors. In his political convictions,
he espoused the cause of the Democratic party. He was married to Margaret
A. McCarns. who still resides on the old homestead; and of this union
fourteen children were the issue, of whom the following reached their
majority: Sarah, Cathaline, Robert W., John M., Neal B., James F.,
Alantha C., Margaret E. and Margaret Ann and Lucinda J. (twins). Robert
W. Rains was reared in Tennessee, and was there married November 6, 1866,
to Margaret E. Stiles, a native of Tennessee, whose parents were Evan and
Polly Stiles, the latter deceased, the former still residing in
Tennessee. He lived with his father for two years, then bought a farm
near Herndon and remained there for the same period. Then he bought
eighty acres of land near his mother, and after three years there, went
back to Tennessee for a year. Raturning to Arkansas, he engaged in the
saw and grist-mill business in Powell Township for two years. He then
bought his present farm of 120 acres, and on this and his farm of 128
acres has about sixty under cultivation. Mr. Rains has been married three
times, his second wife was Margaret M. Albright, and his present wife who
is a pious lady and a member of the Methodist Church, South, was Eugenia
O. Grigsby. Mr. Rains has had five children; Lee Etta, Cicero D.,
Margaret E., Ida C. (deceased) and Renneth W. He is a Mason, and a member
of the Missionary Baptist Church, has always  been a Democrat in
politics, and was elected in 1888 justice of the peace of Jonesboro
Township.