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Hon. Maj. William Dabney Gaines[1, 2, 3, 4]

Male 1774 - 1858  (84 years)


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  • Name William Dabney Gaines 
    Prefix Hon. Maj. 
    Born Feb 28, 1774  Culpeper county, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Birth Feb 28, 1774  Culpeper county, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Birth Feb 28, 1774  Stokes, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Rocky Springs Cemetery, Jackson county, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death Oct 25, 1854  Jackson, Clarke county, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died Jun 25, 1858  Jackson county, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death Oct 25, 1858  Bridgeport, Jackson county, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Rocky Springs Cemetery, Jackson county, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Soon after the death of his parents, William moved his family to Roane County, TN.  His name began appearing in Roane County Court records by 1818.  His daughter, Frances (Fanny) Gaines married William M. King of Roane County on 20th June, 1818.  Fanny was fourteen and her husband was seventeen.
      William Dabney Gaines was living in Madison County, AL when the 1820 census was taken.  He served two years as one of the first Senators in Alabama state government.  He followed his term in the state Senate with a two year term as Representative in the Alabama State Legislature.
      William purchased the Thomas Jones 640 acre Cherokee reserve in Jackson County in 1827. The land lay south of what became known as King's Cove.  A group of Christians meeting at Antioch moved their meeting place to Rocky Springs, Jackson County, AL.  William and Nancy (Cloud) Gaines were numbers one and three on the church membership roll.  William has been reported to have been the preacher for the Rocky Springs church of Christ.  George W. Cloud was a bishop in the church.
      Sources:  Roane County, TN County Court Minutes, Book H, 1819 - 1821, p 63
                      Robert Bailey, Compiler, Roane County, TN Estate Book A, 1801 - 1824, p 48
                      Barbara Gonce Clepper, Raulston & Russell Genealogy, Russell/Gaines Family Bible
                      Calvin E. Sutherd, Gaines Family Genealogy, pp 227, 228, 262 and 363
                      Ann B. Chambless, Jackson County, AL Chronicles, Vol. 10, No. 3 (1998), p 3
                      Edythe Rucker, Roane County, TN Marriages
                      John Robert Kennamer, History of Jackson County, Southern Printing & Publishing (1935),
                      pp 199, 200
                      Gales and Seaton, Grassroots of America: American State Papers, Land Grants and Claims,
                      1789 - 1834, Public Lands, p 333
                      Rocky Springs church of Christ Membership Roll
      He was a son of Thomas W. and Susannah Strother Gaines and was in Stokes  Co., North Carolina on March 17, 1817 when he sold land to Henry  Pendleton Gaines , his brother, in Patrick Co., Virginia. He then moved to  Roane Co., Tennesse e. Not in Roane co in 1830 Census. April 17, 1830,  Madison Co.,Alabama The s tory is that William D. Gaines, a Christian Baptist Minister, went  to Madison Co. Alabama Represented that county for several years in the  State Legislatu re and died near Huntsville, Alabama
    Person ID I87973  mykindred
    Last Modified Feb 21, 2008 

    Father Thomas William Gaines,   b. Jun 12, 1755, Culpeper county, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jan 30, 1811, Stokes county, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years) 
    Mother Susannah Dabney Strother,   b. Nov 04, 1745, Culpeper county, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Feb 06, 1811, Stokes county, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years) 
    Married Mar 05, 1768  Culpeper county, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F29598  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Nancy Cloud,   b. Jan 17, 1777, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Oct 10, 1854, Bridgeport, Jackson county, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Married Jan 01, 1797  Stokes county, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Children 
     1. Malinda A. Gaines,   b. Dec 22, 1797, Patrick county, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Feb 26, 1866, Jackson county, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
     2. Susan Strother Gaines,   b. Jul 18, 1800, Stokes county, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Oct 18, 1868, Jackson county, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
     3. Paulina Gaines,   b. Sep 22, 1801, Patrick county, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Oct 26, 1869, Jackson, Clarke county, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
     4. Frances M. Gaines,   b. May 27, 1804, Johnson county, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Y
     5. Phillip Pendleton Gaines,   d. Y
     6. James Strother Gaines,   d. Y
     7. Elizabeth Gaines,   d. Y
     8. William Dabney Gaines, Jr.,   d. Y
     9. Richard Thomas Gaines,   d. Y
     10. Fanny Gaines,   d. Y
    Family ID F29570  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Martha Smith,   d. Y 
    Family ID F29599  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1139] Jackson County, AL Chronicles, Vol. 10, No. 3 (1998), p 3.

    2. [S1128] Gedcom - Shirley, Raymond.

    3. [S1865] Gedcom - Viertel, Tony.

    4. [S1852] Gedcom - Smith, Miriam E.

    5. [S1140] Raulston & Russell Genealogy, Russell/Gaines Family Bible.
      Hand written names and dates on the "Family Record" page. The bondsman for the marriage was George Cloud.