Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

GEORGE W. RAWLINGS, farmer, P.O., Virginia; Mr. Rawlings was born
Dec. 22, 1834, in Cecil County, Maryland, and is the oldest son,
and third child of Greenberry Rawlings and Elizabeth Dobler
Rawlings, who raised a family of four sons and three daughters,
having lost one son and one daughter.  Greenberry Rawlings was
also a native of Maryland, and a hatter by trade, which
occupation he followed until 1837, the year that he came West,
and located about four miles west of Virginia in Cass County.  He
was of Scotch and English extraction, a thrifty and enterprising
citizen, and a most successful farmer, which business he followed
until his death, in 1864.  His family all located in Cass County,
except one son in Kansas, and a daughter in Jacksonville, Morgan
County.  Our subject received his schooling in the common schools
of Cass County; was brought up a farmer; has been engaged in that
occupation and stock feeding up to the present time.  Nov. 18,
1860, he married Miss Martha E. Robertson, daughter of Charles
Robertson, an early resident of Cass and Morgan Counties.  She
was born Feb. 18, 1844, and was the fifth of a family of ten
children.  Mr. and Mrs. Rawlings have had nine children, seven of
whom are living, viz.: Charles W., Franklin E., Greenberry A.,
William E., George E., John T., Samuel J., Harry, and Mary C. 
George died at four years of age, and Harry at the age of three. 
Mr. Rawlings was a life-long Republican; voted first for John C.
Fremont.  He cast the first Republican vote in his precinct, and
at a time when there were but two Republican voters in his voting
precinct.  He is a member of the Masonic Lodge, and of the
A.O.U.W. of Virginia.

Rawlings  Dobler Robertson
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Cecil-MD Morgan-IL KS