Sussex-Mecklenburg County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Raines, Dr. Thomas M., 1946 

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DR. THOMAS MORTON RAINES 

DR. T.M. RAINES DIES; FUNERAL SERVICES FRIDAY 

WAKEFIELD DOCTOR HAD SERVED AREA FOR 40 YEARS 

  Funeral services for Dr. Thomas Morton Raines, 74, will be held from his 
home in Wakefield at 2:30 Friday afternoon with burial in Wakefield Cemetery. 
Services will be conducted by his pastor, Rev. Samuel L. Dumville, and the 
Rev. W.G. Bates, Jr., pastor of Mathews Methodist Church.

  Dr. Raines died at 8:30 a.m., Thursday morning at his residence after an 
illness of several weeks.  He was the son of Dr. Benjamin Franklin Raines 
and Mrs. Martha Morton Raines and was a native of Mecklenburg County, 
Virginia.  He began practice of medicine in Wakefield in 1908 after practicing 
in Sebrell, Virginia, for two years.  He attended the College of William and 
Mary and graduated from the Medical College of Virginia.

  He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Alice Hill Raines, one daughter, Alice 
Morton Raines, and one son, Thomas Morton Raines, Jr.; a sister, Miss Sue 
Raines of Carson; two brothers, Benjamin F. Raines, Jr., of Washington D.C., 
and Victor E. Raines, of Carson; a sister-in-law, Mrs. W.L. Raines and nephew, 
Mason Raines, of Washington D.C., and one niece, Miss Lucy Raines, of 
Alexandria.

  Active pallbearers will be W.M. Leech, C.A. Anderson, J.L. Francis, Mason 
Raines, Briggs Peebles, and H.L. Harris.


Dr. Thomas Morton RAINES, physician, 
b. 12 Apr 1872, Mecklenburg Co., d. 4 Apr 1946, at home, Wakefield, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 5 Apr 1946, 
Purviance Funeral Home obit 

*Wakefield list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 11976 (Wakefield #3), which states his father 
   was b. in Sussex Co. & his mother in Mecklenburg Co.; however, their 
   D.Certs. give Mecklenburg Co. & Petersburg, respectively. 

His parents are buried in Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg.  

His first wife, Elizabeth (PEEBLES) RAINES {1877-1934}, and her parents 
   are also buried there.  

His widow's obit (Purviance Funeral Home, 2002) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/r520a1ob.txt 


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