Ronald Henry Blackburn Raines

Male23 January 1893–19 August 1910

Brief Life History of Ronald Henry Blackburn

When Ronald Henry Blackburn Raines was born on 23 January 1893, in Kansas, United States, his father, James L. Raines, was 40 and his mother, Frances Elizabeth Carson, was 34. He lived in Jefferson, Montgomery, Kansas, United States in 1895 and Perry, Jefferson, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 19 August 1910, in Jefferson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 17, and was buried in Perry, Jefferson, Kansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

James L. Raines
1852–1930
Frances Elizabeth Carson
1858–1930
Maidee Raines
1879–1901
Vernet Carson Raines
1880–1950
Edna Raines
1886–1975
Ronald Henry Blackburn Raines
1893–1910

Sources (4)

  • Ronald H Raines in household of J L Raines, "Kansas State Census, 1895"
  • Ronald Henry Blackburn Raines, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Ronald Raines in household of James L Raines, "United States Census, 1910"

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World Events (8)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

Age 3

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1898 · War with the Spanish

Age 5

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

Age 7

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Raine , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.

English: habitational name from Rayne (Essex), recorded in the Domesday Book as Raines in the 11th century. The etymology of the placename is uncertain, but it may derive from Old English hrægene ‘hut, shelter’ or from a pre-English river name for Pods Brook (a river on which Rayne lies), cognate with the German river name Regen (a tributary of the Danube), formed from the Indo-European root reg- ‘wet, moisten, water’.

English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Rennes in Brittany, France.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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