Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1885,
Hardin Co.

JOHN A. RAINE, Sr.  One of the early settlers of Hardin County, Ky., was
William Raine, the father of the gentleman whose name introduces this
sketch.  He was born and reared in Virginia, of Irish ancestry, and was an
intimate friend and associate of Patrick Henry.  He married, in Virginia,
Miss Mary Lewis, a daughter of Griffin Lewis, who was a full cousin of Gen.
George Washington, with whom he attended school, graduating from the same
institution.  They had a family of eleven children, and with this family
removed to Kentucky in 1820, and after a brief residence in Bourbon and
Bath Counties, settled permanently in Hardin County near Elizabethtown in
1823, and passed the remainder of their days in Hardin County; he died at
the age of seventy-five years, and his widow ten years later at the same
age.  But two of their children are living at this time: John A. and
Elizabeth (Jackson).  John A. was born in Virginia in 1817; was educated in
the schools of Hardin County, being but five years old when the family came
to the county.  He learned the trade of shoe-maker and also that of hatter,
to neither of which he devoted much of his after years.  In 1838 he was
elected to the office of coroner of Hardin County, and in 1840 became
deputy sheriff, serving in that office three years.  In 1845 he began
selling goods and farming in Hardin County, which he successfully followed
for seventeen years, at which time he embarked in the wholesale boot and
shoe business in Louisville, Ky.  In 1868 he returned to Hardin County,
locating at Sonora, where he has been engaged in agriculture and official
duties.  He is the present efficient postmaster at Sonora, and was first
appointed to that position in 1872.  Col. Raine, as he is familiarly
called, has been three times married; first, in 1834, to Miss Mahala,
daughter of William Bland.  She died in 1840, after which he married Sarah,
a younger sister of his former wife.  She died in January, 1878, since
which time he has married his present wife Sallie (VanCleave) Strange,
widow of the Rev. J. R. Strange.  His children of the first union were
James W., who was killed in the battle of Mansfield, La., while commanding
the Eighth Texas Regiment; Robert L., a physician of Rowan County, Ky., and
Laura B., who died in early life.  His second alliance resulted in the
birth of Joseph S., Laura Ann (Newman), Florena (Long), W. B. Raine, Mary
L. (Armstrong), John A. Raine, Jr., and Katie Raine.  Col. Raine has been a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for more than half a century, and
is also a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities.

Raine Henry Lewis Washington Jackson Bland VanCleave Strange Newman Long
Armstrong
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VA Bourbon-KY Bath-KY Jefferson-KY LA Rowan-KY

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