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Versailles Leader December, 1898
     This is a description of her tombstone that has her obituary on it.
Here is the obituary;;
  Margaret Rains, wife of J. T. Rains, and daughter of Mr and Mrs. Wm.
Gillreath.  Born May 6, 1832; died, January 5, 1898.  Age 65 years, 7
months and 29 days.  Mrs. Rains was born in Cumberland Co., Ky.,
where she was raised.  She was married in Kentucky to Wiseman Millsaps
and moved to Morgan Co., Mo., about the year 1858. Two children were
born to them, a boy and a girl, both dead.  Mr.
Millsaps died in 1864.  September 30, 1866, she was married to J. T.
Rains.  their daughter, Mattie, died, when a little over two years old.
They moved to Benton County in 1880 and bought the farm on which
she died.  For sixteen years she had been in poor health.  She died of
Pneumonia.  She was a member of the Baptist church for over thirtyfive
years and lived a consistent Christian life.  She left a granddaughter,
Mrs. Myrtle Sands.  The Funeral was preached by Rev. Wm  Briggs.