In a message dated 3/1/99 5:59:42 PM Central Standard Time, zapt@cyberhighway.net writes: > > ---------- > > Date: Sunday, February 28, 1999 06:10:25 > > From: zapt > > To: ICDJD@aol.com > > Subject: John Wesley Rainwater > > > > Hi Diana - I'm just getting to your query last month - a pile of e-mails > to > > wade through. I think your John could have been the son of Miles > Rainwater > > and Martha Proffett, who appear on the 1850 Census in Jefferson Co., > > Tennessee, where Dandridge is located. At that time, they had 4 children - > > > Harrison Anderson b. <1844>; John <1845-6>; William <1847>; and Murphy M. > > Rainwater b. 29 sep 1864 in Jefferson Co., TN. Murphy md. Hannah Rebecca > > McAndrew in 1886, and they are buried in the Hill Union Methodist Cemetery > in > > Jefferson Co. Miles' father was James Rainwater Sr., mother Anne > Catherine > > Regan. > > Information: 1850 Census; Clan McAndrew by A. T. Skeen 929.273 in Salt > Lake > > Library. > By the time of the 1850 census Milas and Martha had 5 children with the following children still living: 1) Anderson Harrison Rainwater b. Jun 3 1844 2) John Wesley Rainwater b. Jan 6 1846 3) William Simpson Rainwater b. Jan 1 1848 4) Louisa Elizabeth Rainwater b. Oct 26 1849 Milas and Martha's first child was stillborn in Jun 1843. Milas' parent were NOT those noted above. His father was James Rainwater b. 1791 Richmond Co, NC d. after Jul 27 1871 Crawford Co, AR (son of William Rainwater, Jr and Ann). Milas' mother was Catherine McCall b. Jul 20 1795 NC d. Nov 4 1875 Jefferson Co, AR.