CARROLL COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: RINES, ELI (The Lewis Publishing Co., 1925)

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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887
Page 595-596

        ELI RINES, a representative of one of the pioneer families of Jay
County, engaged in farming on section 35, Wayne Township, is a native of
Ohio, born in Carroll County, June 6, 1844, a son of James and Mary (Van
Skyhawk) Rines, the father a native of the State of Pennsylvania. The
parents reared a family of five children, and in September, 1848, came with
them to Jay County, and settled in Jefferson Township. The father now makes
his home in South Portland. The father being a farmer, our subject was
reared to the same avocation, his youth being spent in assisting with the
work of the farm and attending the schools of Jay County. He enlisted in
the war of the Rebellion September 23, 1862, in Company H, One Hundredth
Indiana Infantry, and took an active part in the engagements at Jackson,
siege of Vicksburg and Missionary Ridge, where his regiment lost one-third
of its men. He was in twenty-six battles, carrying the flag, he being a
color-bearer. He was with General Sherman on his march to the sea, at the
taking of Atlanta and at Bentonville. His left arm was crushed by a log at
Hollow Springs, from the effects of which he has never recovered, and now
receives a pension of $4 a month. He received an honorable discharge June
14, 1865, at Indianapolis, Indiana, when he returned to Jay County and
engaged in more peaceful pursuits. He has met with success in his
agricultural pursuits, and is now the owner of a good farm on which he
resides, which is under a good state of cultivation. Mr. Rines has been
married three times, taking for his first wife Lorinda M. Hardy, a daughter
of Curtis Hardy, a prominent pioneer of Jay County. Mrs. Rines died
February 1, 1873, leaving at her death two children -Curtis H. and Carrie
C. Mr. Rines was united in marriage a second time January 15, 1874, to Miss
Eliza Jane Mason, a daughter of Lemuel Mason, of Wayne Township, and to
this union were born two sons -Charles Lewis and William F. Mrs. Eliza Jane
Rines died February 7, 1882. Mr. Rines was again married September 8, 1884,
to Mary J. Powell, of Franklin County, Ohio a daughter of William Powell,
and they are the parents of one child named Eva. In politics Mr. Rines
affiliates with the Republican party. He is a member of the Christian
church, of which he is a deacon. He takes an active interest in the cause
of religion and education, and gives liberally of his means toward the
advancement of the same. He is a man much respected throughout his
township, his genial disposition and cordial manners having gained him many
friends. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, belonging to
Stephen Bailey Post, No. 54, of Portland.


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