Four Hundred TwentySecond in the Famous People (FP)
Series - Emory rains
Emory Rains
(May 4, 1800 – March 4, 1878) was a lawyer, judge and political
leader in the Republic of Texas and thereafter in the State of
Texas. Rains was born in Warren County, Tennessee, and moved to
Texas in 1817. Emory Rains held many public offices and his life
was devoted to public service.
In 1839, Rains was a prime supporter of the historic law creating a
Homestead exemption in Texas.
In 1846, Emory Rains settled on a section of land on the Turkey
Creek Territory of the Sabine River in what was then Wood County;
there he bought 640 acres of the Martin Ferring survey on Turkey
Creek and Rains Creek off of Lake Fork about two miles northeast
from Point. It was at this place that he spent the remainder of his
life.
In 1861, he stood with Sam Houston in opposition to secession from
the union. In 1866, Emory Rains rode a mule to Austin, Texas, for
the purpose of getting a bill introduced to create Rains County,
Texas.
In 1869 Emory Rains, E.P. Kearby, and
Captain T.M. Cain set out to survey Rains County, parts of which
were taken from Wood, Hopkins, Hunt, and Van Zandt counties; the
county was laid out and named in his honor, and county seat, which
was then Springville, was changed to his given name, Emory.
Judge Emory Rains died on March 4, 1878, of an apparent stroke, and
is buried in the City Cemetery in Emory, Texas. Both Emory, Texas,
and Rains County, Texas are named for him.
The cache here is a small
bison tube hanging in a small tree planted in memory of Frances
Willis and between the Emory Rains Memorial and a 9-11-2001
memorial. It is only fitting that we hid this cache on
9-11-2009.
GPSr Accuracy 7.4'