I found a Rowland Raine who came to Virginia as a Head-Right from England about 1631 but I havent conected him to my Rowland yet. I think all the Rains were in Virginia before the territory was opened for migration. I saw your Dabney on GENFORUM. You should check the SITE out. Arent you relate to EUCLID RAINS who died recently? He lived up your way. He was completly blind and use to drive a car down country roads by hisself. Thats what the newspaper said. The site list Daneys father as Edmund Muscoe Rains. If you go to the Rains Message Board theres alot more info on Dabney Rains.  Dabney Rains b 1788 Va Posted by: Arnold Horton WilsonDate: February 21, 1999 at 05:17:43 of 777 Dabney Rains was born in VA (probably Amherst Co) in 1788. His father apparently died when Dabney was an infant. Dabney married Barbara White, dau of Nicholas White, probably in Elbert Co Ga. They had 11 children. They were: John W, Josiah Francis, Ignacius, Mary, Rains, Willis H, Hulda, Powell S, Elizabeth A, Almedia and Henry. Dabney died at Martling or Asbury, Marshall, Alabama on 18 Mar 1860. Barbara died there also. They were buried in the Martling Cemetery. After the death of Dabney's father, Elizabeth married John T Dudley. They had 4 children. They were: Ignatius, James L, Wiley and Mary Ann. Mary Ann married Isaac Green Mitchell and they were the g grandparents of Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, author of GONE WITH THE WIND. Will share info on the Rains or Dudleys or Mitchells. http://genforum.genealogy.com/rains/messages/169.html