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Stephen Ridgley Rainey

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Stephen Ridgley Rainey

Birth
Marion County, Georgia, USA
Death
11 Apr 1919 (aged 72)
Cusseta, Cass County, Texas, USA
Burial
Cass County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Stephen Ridgley Rainey was the first child of Thomas Frederick Rainey and his wife Mary Dwight Collins. He was born in Marion County on land which was later located in Schley County, Georgia. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Ridge was 14 years old. He was too young to enlist in the regular army. He enlisted in the Georgia Guard in 1864 at the age of 16, and was assigned guard duty at the now infamous Andersonville Prisoner of War Camp. This camp was about 15 miles from his home. His younger brother Reuben Marion Rainey was also in his unit.

After the war, Ridgley met and marries Precious Manny Saunders. They lived near his parents the first couple of years of marriage. In 1870-1872, Ridge agreed to accompany his two aunts and their husbands (Anne Glenn Collins and husband James Nelson McMicheal and Elizabeth R Collins and husband Reuben Rogers) his grandmother, Elizabeth Middleton Glenn Collins to Atlanta, Cass County, Texas. In Cass County in Cussetta is where they settled and had the rest of their children. His grandmother died within a couple of years of this move and is buried in Cass County, TX.
Stephen Ridgley Rainey was the first child of Thomas Frederick Rainey and his wife Mary Dwight Collins. He was born in Marion County on land which was later located in Schley County, Georgia. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Ridge was 14 years old. He was too young to enlist in the regular army. He enlisted in the Georgia Guard in 1864 at the age of 16, and was assigned guard duty at the now infamous Andersonville Prisoner of War Camp. This camp was about 15 miles from his home. His younger brother Reuben Marion Rainey was also in his unit.

After the war, Ridgley met and marries Precious Manny Saunders. They lived near his parents the first couple of years of marriage. In 1870-1872, Ridge agreed to accompany his two aunts and their husbands (Anne Glenn Collins and husband James Nelson McMicheal and Elizabeth R Collins and husband Reuben Rogers) his grandmother, Elizabeth Middleton Glenn Collins to Atlanta, Cass County, Texas. In Cass County in Cussetta is where they settled and had the rest of their children. His grandmother died within a couple of years of this move and is buried in Cass County, TX.

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