Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Rains, Simpson 1829 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  SIMPSON RAINS, farmer, P. O. Hutsonville, born in Crawford County, Ill.,
September 6, 1829. His father, Ambrose B. Rains, was born, raised and educated
in Wayne County, N. C. He emigrated to Illinois in a very early day, locating in
Union County, and subsequently to Crawford County in 1827. He settled on the
farm now owned by our subject. He died February 22, I860, aged sixty years. His
grandfather was a soldier of the Revolutionary war. The mother of our subject
was Charlotte Cox, a native of near Goldsboro, N. C. She was brought to Illinois
by her parents in an early day, who settled in Union County. She died June 1,
1850, aged forty-five years one month and fourteen days. Of the eleven children
born to them, four are now living, viz., Simpson, Nancy (John) Kaufman,
Lafayette and Henry. Simpson Rains was raised on the farm, and educated from the
subscription schools, common in his day. When he was twenty-four years of age,
he left his home and embarked on his career in life as a farmer. He then bought
sixty acres of land, and though he was compelled to go in debt for it and pay
ten per cent interest on the principal, he managed to struggle through and
prosper, and in a few years to make an addition of forty acres to his farm,
which was located in Section 16, Hutsonville Township. In 1864, he sold his farm
and removed to the old homestead farm, buying 302 acres of the other heirs. He
continued to add to this until his farm contained 432 acres. He has deeded forty
acres of this to his oldest son. In 1853, he married Miss Nancy Jane Lindley, a
native of Crawford County, born June 22, 1834. She is a daughter of Owen and
Hannah Lindley, natives of Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Rains have the following
children: Edward, Morton, Clarissa, Mary, Emma, George, Louisa, Nancy and Fanny,
twins, and Ellen. He and wife are religiously connected with the Universalist
Church. Politically, he is a Republican. He has served the people as School
Director for about twenty years.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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