Pictures of early settlers and places in the Rains County area. Submitted by Elaine Nall Bay.Mrs Kate Davis - came to Point in ox wagon
Dr J S H Allen - born on high sea
Mrs M L Allen (Mrs Marvin Allen) - postmaster for past 4 years
Mrs Emily Bellah - Point resident, descendant of Lord Baltimore
Captain T M Cain - surveyed county
Sam P Cain - worked 40 years for Uncle Sam
N M Carter - county agent
Ade Childers - keeping county books straight
Cox Hotel - "Was an old house in 1890. Was built by Jas. A. Montgomery. Had been operated by Rom Reeves, Jim Cox, C.J. Crabb and W.L. Ivie. S.H. Hood properties are now on this spot."
Rev Ambrose Fitzgerald - first county clerk
Farmers Union charter members - front row: W O Bertram, J S Turner, Jesse Adams, W C Cockran, T J Pound.
second row: W S Sisk, B J Morris, Dr Lee Seamster, Newt Gresham, O H Rodes. Note: W O Bertram not a member, stood in for Tom Donaldson.Hardin Drug Store 1908 - owned by Dr P W Pearson. Shown, Al Reeves, Tom W Hill, Dr Pearson, Ive Holderness,
Will Stuart and Doug Pearson.Tom W Hill, Sr - late publisher of Rains County Leader
I O O F (International Order of Odd Fellows) - caption: Old IOOF Building builty by the late J.A. Amis in 1928. The Charlie Robertson Station now occupies this site. Note: The big old building was right across the side street from the Amis house, and it burned to the ground the night before mother and I moved to Conroe to join Daddy, who was the new county agent for Montgomery County. That was in 1928; I had waked up in the middle of the night and the fire was raging. Everything was lit up. It seems to me they decided the fire started from a closet of oily rags in the upstairs, where the Odd Fellows' Lodge was. ---Carolyn Glass Warren, July 2003
A.J. Rice & Melissa Cornelius Rice
S J Stuart - Forbis Cemetery started by S J Stuart, pioneer
Mrs Emma Henry & Mrs Ella Ballew - Mrs. Emma Henry of Emory & her twin sister, Mrs. Ella Ballew, who now lives in Wilson, Oklahoma - daughters of Mr. and Mrs. S.P. Elliott
