When Catherine Rainwater was born in 1849, in Ray, Missouri, United States, her father, Malcomb B. Rainwater, was 37 and her mother, Margaret A. Artman, was 33. She married Zachariah T Thomas on 22 October 1776, in Ray, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Camden Township, Ray, Missouri, United States in 1860. She died after 1920, in Coos, Oregon, United States, at the age of 72.