Melissa Ellen Raines

1870 - 1891  (21 years)

• Name	Melissa Ellen Raines
  Born	17 Jul 1870	Jackson County, West Virginia, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	30 Dec 1891	Waneda County, Minnesota, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I8640	WVPioneers
  Last Modified	17 Jun 2005

  
  

  Father	Andrew Marion Raines,   b. Abt 1848, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. Abt 1877  (Age ~ 29 years)
  Mother	Louisa Rollins,   b. Abt 1846, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA ,   d. 1884  (Age ~ 38 years)
  Married	11 Aug 1864	Jackson County, West Virginia, USA   [3]
  Notes	JCMR Raines, Andrew M 17 Jackson res Roane Rollins, Louisa 18 Jackson Abraham & Lucinda John & Mary 11 Aug 1864 1870 Washington Dist, Jackson, WV # 76 Raines, Andrew M 22 farmer VA Louisa 23 VA William E 3 WV # 74 - Charles Morgan - the murdered man? 1880 Ripley, Jackson, West Virginia Page 433B Joshua PARSONS Self M M W 66 WV Louisa PARSONS Wife F M W 33 WV Charles E. PARSONS Son M S W 34 WV Frank PARSONS Son M S W 21 WV Mosses G. PARSONS Son M S W 11 WV Ida D. RAINES SDau F S W 8 WV John F. RAINES SSon M S W 7 WV Catherine RAINES SDau F S W 4 WV [Ages on Catherine & John are reversed?] 1880 Washington, Jackson, West Virginia Abraham RANES Self M M W 56 WV Lucinda RANES Wife F M W 57 WV Ann RANES Dau F S W 30 WV Emma J. RANES Dau F S W 16 WV Wm. E. RANES GSon M S W 10 WV Malisse E. RANES GDau F S W 9 WV 1885 census, Wadena Co. MN. May 1, 1885 Abram Raines, age 62, b.WV Lucinda Raines, age 63, b.WV E. Raines, age 30, b.WV, female, probably Eliza? E. Raines, 20, b.WV, female, this is likely Emma Jane. W.E. Raines, 14, b.WV, male, [William Elmer?] M.L. Raines, 13, b.WV., female, [ Melissa?] They are all listed as children of Abe and Lucinda. JCDR shows John was son of Clem Morgan. If Andrew was killed 'about two years' after he killed Morgan, who is Catherine's father? JCDR: Raines, Mary E, 7/12/1870, 3y2m6d, p Andrew & M JCBR: Ranes, Melissa J, 7/17/1870, Andrew & Febia Ranes, Jackson Co THE SLAUGHTER OF THE PFOST-GREENE FAMILY by O. J. Morrison JOHN F. MORGAN--THE AWFUL DEED John F. Morgan, who wrought the ruin at the Pfost home, is about twenty-two years old; while he is known by the name of Morgan, his true name is Raines. C. T. Morgan and A. M. Raines (the real father of John F. Morgan) lived in Jackson County, near Gay Post Office, West Virginia, a quarter of a century ago. Morgan and his wife were divorced; Raines, by arrangement with Morgan, moved in with him to keep house for him. After a time Raines became jealous of Morgan and his wife, and shot at Morgan, but Morgan escaped unhurt. Raines left the neighborhood for a time, and then returned and deliberately shot Morgan while he (Morgan) was cutting briers in a field; during this time Mrs. Raines had continued to live with Morgan, and at the time Raines shot Morgan, John F. Morgan (Raines) was but two days old. Raines then fled to Nicholas County, in this State, where he was at large for about two years, and was then shot and killed while resisting arrest. Mrs. Raines a few years later married again and lived on the waters of Grass Lick, two and one-half miles from where the Greene family were murdered. This boy, John F. Morgan, (Raines) continued to reside with his mother until her death, which occurred when he was about nine or ten years old; he then wandered about from place to place, staying from three to twelve months at a place, until about the year 1891, when he went to make his home with the family the remaining portion of which he afterwards deliberately murdered.
  Family ID	F1311	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Birth Records, Jackson Co, WV. [S455] Norene "Renie" Schlader. [S17] Marriage Records, Jackson Co, WV.