Rains Family

Submitted by granddaughters:
Peggy Joice Horton - wphor@sbcglobal.net 
Betty Joice Moore - hcbmo@austin.rr.com
August 1999

Photo:  Lona Della Davis Rains (b. Dec., 1871; d. Apr., 1917)
             with the oldest four of her seven children
Date of Photo:  about 1905
Standing at the back, l. to r.:
      Oliver Monroe Rains and Nellie Cleo Rains
Standing in front, on left:  Lloyd William Rains
Seated:  Lona Della Davis Rains, with Z. Jewell  Rains on her lap
 

As a young child in 1873, Lona Della had traveled by wagon with her parents, Hester Jane and William  M. “Buck” Davis, from Lamar County, Alabama, to become one of the early settlers in  Poteau, LeFlore County, Indian Territory.

Submitted by daughters of  Z. Jewell Rains Joice
Peggy Joice Horton - wphor@ccape.net
Betty Joice Moore - Hcbmo@aol.com
August 1999

Photo:  Children of Lona Davis and John H. C. Rains
Date of picture:  ca 1910 - 1911

Standing, l. to r.  Z.
Jewell Rains, b. August 18, 1904, Poteau, I. T.
Robert Manson Rains, b. February 12, 1907, Poteau, I. T.
Lloyd William Rains, b. March 19, 1901, Poteau, I. T.
Seated on stool:   Mollie Mary Rains, b. November 2, 1909, Poteau, Oklahoma

The grandchildren of William M. "Buck" and Hester Davis, some of them were among the first to attend the Tarby Prairie School built near Poteau,  ca. 1905-1907.