Married Ann George, daughter of Richard George and Elizabeth Mayo. Rev. Gaines was 94 years old when he died. A Methodist Minister for fifty years. His first wife was the mother of his thirteen children. He married his last two wives in his old age and outlived both of them. Obituary says, "Rev. Henry Gaines died 25th ult. in his 94th year of age. He was born in King and Queen County, Virginia, came to South Carolina at age 60 years, resided in Newberry District, then Abbeville District, and for twenty years resided in this neighborhood. He was for fifty years a Methodist Minister. He married three times. His first wife was the mother of his thirteen children. She lived to see all of them grown. He married his last two wives in his old age and outlived them both." His will was made February 8, 1828 and probated August 2, 1830.
"A Compilation, Gaines Family Data", not indexed, found in J. Eric Jonson Public Library, Dallas, TX., provided some of this information. Page 17: "A descendant, W. P. (William Patton) Mauldin, of MS, stated his mother had told him THE MOTTO OF REV. HENRY GAINES WAS 'TO WORK EVERY DAY AS IF I WERE TO LIVE FOREVER; AND TO LIVE EVERY DAY AS IF I WERE TO DIE TOMORROW. ' For more than 50 years he was an active Methodist minister."
"A Compilation, Gaines Family Data", not indexed, found in J. Eric Jonson Public Library, Dallas, TX., provided some of this information. Page 17: "A descendant, W. P. (William Patton) Mauldin, of MS, stated his mother had told him THE MOTTO OF REV. HENRY GAINES WAS 'TO WORK EVERY DAY AS IF I WERE TO LIVE FOREVER; AND TO LIVE EVERY DAY AS IF I WERE TO DIE TOMORROW. ' For more than 50 years he was an active Methodist minister."
Married Ann George, daughter of Richard George and Elizabeth Mayo. Rev. Gaines was 94 years old when he died. A Methodist Minister for fifty years. His first wife was the mother of his thirteen children. He married his last two wives in his old age and outlived both of them. Obituary says, "Rev. Henry Gaines died 25th ult. in his 94th year of age. He was born in King and Queen County, Virginia, came to South Carolina at age 60 years, resided in Newberry District, then Abbeville District, and for twenty years resided in this neighborhood. He was for fifty years a Methodist Minister. He married three times. His first wife was the mother of his thirteen children. She lived to see all of them grown. He married his last two wives in his old age and outlived them both." His will was made February 8, 1828 and probated August 2, 1830.
"A Compilation, Gaines Family Data", not indexed, found in J. Eric Jonson Public Library, Dallas, TX., provided some of this information. Page 17: "A descendant, W. P. (William Patton) Mauldin, of MS, stated his mother had told him THE MOTTO OF REV. HENRY GAINES WAS 'TO WORK EVERY DAY AS IF I WERE TO LIVE FOREVER; AND TO LIVE EVERY DAY AS IF I WERE TO DIE TOMORROW. ' For more than 50 years he was an active Methodist minister."
"A Compilation, Gaines Family Data", not indexed, found in J. Eric Jonson Public Library, Dallas, TX., provided some of this information. Page 17: "A descendant, W. P. (William Patton) Mauldin, of MS, stated his mother had told him THE MOTTO OF REV. HENRY GAINES WAS 'TO WORK EVERY DAY AS IF I WERE TO LIVE FOREVER; AND TO LIVE EVERY DAY AS IF I WERE TO DIE TOMORROW. ' For more than 50 years he was an active Methodist minister."
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