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View Tree for Nancy RaineyNancy Rainey (b. November 11, 1784, d. October 17, 1871)

Nancy Rainey (daughter of John Rainey and Catherine)3635, 3636, 3637, 3638, 3639 was born November 11, 1784 in Laurens county, SC3640, 3641, 3642, and died October 17, 1871 in Oak, Pope County, Illinois3643, 3644. She married Henry Hart on December 24, 1804 in South Carolina, son of James T Hart and Elizabeth Jernigan.

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Notes for NANCY RAINEY:
THE JOHN RAINEY FAMILY OF BEDFORD COUNTY TENNESSEE
It is appropriate at this time to present available information concerning the origin of NANCY RAINEY, wife of Henry Hart and mother of his fourteen children. Most of the information is contained in the application made by her father, JOHN RAINEY, for a pension for his service in the Revolutionary War. Provisions for this pension were made possible by an act of Congress, June 7, 1832. JOHN RAINEY was over 82 years of age at the time and although he served as a captain beginning November 1, 1778 for an aggregate period of approximately three years, due to ald age and loss of memory when he applied for his pension, he could not remember enough details to prove he was a captain. Consequently, he accepted the pension pay of a private at $80 per year. He was still drawing his pension in 1841 at age 91. This pension application, No. S4035 in the National archives in Washington, D.C., is important to us as it furnishes considerable information about him and his family. It furnishes his birthdate and place, locations of battles he was in and, among other things, the year he left South Carolina and migrated to Bedford County, Tennessee, where he was when he made application for his pension. A Rainey descendant, Mrs. C. F. Bridgers of Burlington, North Carolina, refers to this pension on a partial lineage chart which also shows that JOHN RAINEY was the son of THOMAS RAINEY who had four sons who served in the Revolutionary War. THOMAS RAINEY is listed as coming to the United States from Ireland in 1740 and settling in Sussex County, Virginia. Using the information herein, it appears that our immigrant ancestor on the Rainey side, THOMAS RAINEY, came to the United States in 1740, settled in Sussex County, Virginia, but moved to Caroline County, Virginia prior to May 20, 1750, at which time JOHN RAINEY was born there. Our next record of JOHN RAINEY is his enlistment November 1, 1778, when he was commissioned a captain in the service of the United States in charge of a volunteer company. This company built a garrison in the "Cherokee Nation just over the S.C. line" and he and sixty men held it for about nine months. Upon return home he must have been discharged, as he again enlisted as a captain in August 1779 and he reported that he served as a recruiter, kept down the Tories, guarded the frontier, was taken prisoner by the British and escaped, fought in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. While on a march to join General Pickens in North Carolina, he met his wife and five children who had been driven from their home in South Carolina by the Tories. They were exhausted and hungry. JOHN RAINEY turned his command over to "one Major Moore and they went on and he conveyed his wife (and children) off a distance of about thirty miles and procured a house for them and from thence went home to S.C. and was not in the service afterwards." This was ca 1781. JOHN RAINEY gave as his place of residence before and after the war as Laurens, South Carolina. It was here that our maternal great-great-grandmother, NANCY RAINEY, was born on November 11, 1784. One source places her birth in Caroline County, Virginia, but there is no record to refute the fact that JOHN RAINEY said that he and his family were in Laurens County, South Carolina before and after the war, which would include the year of 1784. Our next record is the statement of JOHN RAINEY that he left Laurens, South Carolina and moved to Bedford County, Tennessee, in the year 1808. It is there that he received two land grants from the state, one for twenty acres on May 22, 1814, and the other sixteen acres on April 19, 1815, both located on the headwaters of Big Flat Creek, a south branch of Duck River. These grants are on file in the State Archives, Nashville, Tennessee. This is the same area in which Henry Hart settled and received three land grants, one in 1823, and two in 1826. Although we do not have any other record of more property, as the 1820 Bedford County census records that in addition to his wife and three children, he had eight slaves. This number of slaves could work a much larger farm than the thirty-six acres he received by the two land grants in 1814 and 1815.

JOHN RAINEY is not recorded in the 1830 Bedford County census, but as he was 80 years old it is assumed that he was living with the family of one of his children. On August 16, 1832, JOHN RAINEY, age 82, appeared in open court in Bedford County before three Justices and made his declaration on oath, his application for his pension for service in the Revolutionary War. It is assumed that he died approximately 1841 as there are no further records of him after that date. He and his wife are probably buried in the old part of the Mount Hermon Baptist Church Cemetery and the graves poorly marked,
as there is no evidence they were buried in any other cemetery in the Flat Creek or Mount Hermon area.

More About NANCY RAINEY:
Burial: Hart/Gossage Cemetery Oak or Eddyville, Pope Co IL



More About Nancy Rainey:
Burial: Unknown, Hart/Gossage Cemetery, Oak or Eddyville, Pope Co., IL.

More About Nancy Rainey and Henry Hart:
Marriage 1: December 24, 1804, South Carolina.
Marriage 2: December 24, 1804, , , South Carolina.
Marriage 3: 1805

Children of Nancy Rainey and Henry Hart are:
  1. +James Williamson Hart, b. October 11, 1805, Edgefield, SC3645, 3646, 3647, d. September 07, 1883, White County, IL3648, 3649, 3650.
  2. +John Henry Hart, b. March 18, 1807, Edgefield, SC3651, 3652, 3653, d. Abt. 18703654, 3655, 3656.
  3. Rachel Hart, b. 18093657, 3658, 3659, d. date unknown.
  4. +Letethe Hart, b. Abt. 18113660, 3661, 3662, d. Abt. 18693663, 3664, 3665.
  5. +Elizabeth Hart, b. Abt. 1812, Bedford, TN3666, 3667, 3668, d. 1859, Bado, Texas County, Missouri3669.
  6. Malinda Hart, b. Abt. 18133670, 3671, 3672, d. 18403673, 3674, 3675, 3676.
  7. +Nancy Hart, b. April 11, 1814, TN3677, 3678, 3679, d. July 04, 18903680, 3681, 3682.
  8. +Nathan Hart, b. 1816, TN3683, 3684, 3685, d. February 01, 18903686, 3687, 3688.
  9. +Derrel Jesse Hart, b. June 05, 1818, Bedford, TN3689, 3690, 3691, d. October 09, 18763692, 3693, 3694.
  10. +Catherine Rainey Hart, b. Abt. 1820, Bedford, TN3695, 3696, 3697, d. Abt. 18603698, 3699, 3700.
  11. +Jesse G. Hart, b. Abt. 1821, TN3701, 3702, 3703, d. Abt. 18703704, 3705, 3706.
  12. +Agnes Hart, b. 18243707, 3708, 3709, d. 18463710, 3711, 3712.
  13. Martin Marshall Leroy Hampton Hart, b. August 08, 1826, Bedford, TN3713, 3714, 3715, d. 18643716, 3717, 3718.
  14. William J. Hart, b. Abt. 1829, TN3719, 3720, 3721, d. date unknown.
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