When America Jane Rainey was born on 5 January 1837, in Tennessee, United States, her father, George Robertson Rainey, was 33 and her mother, Emily “Milly” Jones Lane, was 33. She married David C. Allen on 3 March 1857, in Bedford, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Blackwater Township, Pettis, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Salt Pond Township, Saline, Missouri, United States in 1920. She died on 17 December 1924, in Stanley, Johnson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Greene, Missouri, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Irish (Antrim and Down) and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ráighne, from a personal name derived from the Old Norse name Rǫgnvaldr, itself from ragn- ‘god, divine power’ + vald ‘power, rule’ (see Ronald , Reynold ). In Ireland the name became Mac Raighne, Ó Raighne, with modern forms Rainey, Raney, Reaney, Reanney, Reanny, Reany, Reinny, Rennie, Reyney, Ryney.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Regny (Loire, France) common in the 12th and 13th centuries.
English: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Rayn(e)y, Renie, a pet form of Reynold .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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