Terms of Service top

Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
S	6	Nov 7, 1859 - Nov 4, 1861	8th (1) (2)		Springville / Wood		Upshur, Wood
H	25	Nov 7, 1853 - Nov 5, 1855	5th		Shelbyville / Shelby		Panola, San Augustine, Shelby
H	9	Nov 3, 1851 - Nov 7, 1853	4th		Shelbyville / Shelby		San Augustine, Shelby
H	Shelby	Dec 13, 1847 - Nov 5, 1849	2nd (3)		Shelbyville / Shelby		Shelby

(1) 8th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators elected since the last adjournment, oath of office administered, 11/7/1859, p. 2. Senate Journal.
(2) 8th Legislature - One of 15 newcomers to the Senate, 8th Regular Session, p. 302. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861, 1990.
(3) Roster of members of the 2nd Legislature, The Texas Democrat (Austin, Texas), 12/15/1847, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).

Biographical Notes and Resources top

Resolutions and Journal entries

• 5th Legislature - Roll of Members, Emery Rains, age 53, native state Tennessee, emigrated from Tennessee in 1816, farmer, postoffice Shelbyville, Shelby County. House Journal.
• Emery Rains. Senate Journal. 8th R.S.

Biographical Sketches

• Biographical sketch, p. 157. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845, 1942.
• RAINS, EMORY (1800-1878). "Sometime before 1859 he moved to Wood County; he represented that county in the Senate of the Eighth Legislature." Handbook of Texas Online.
• Emory Rains. "As a state senator from Wood County, Rains refused to swear allegiance to the Confederacy and remained at home farming for the rest of the war." Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide, 2002.

Other Resources

• Emory Rains, birth date 5/4/1800, death date 3/4/1878, portrait, historical marker, burial in Emory City Cemetery, Emory, Rains County. Find a Grave.
• RAINS COUNTY and EMORY, TEXAS, named for Emory Rains. Handbook of Texas Online. Handbook of Texas Online
• Report of the death of the Hon. Emory Rains in the Sherman Courier, "State Press," The Galveston Daily News, 4/28/1878, p. 2, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
• Sarah Brown Hipp Barrett, mother of Eli Brown Barrett, was the niece of Emory Rains, pp. 104-105. Relatives: Emory Rains - great-uncle; Eli Brown Barrett - great-nephew. Bonham Public Library. Fannin County Folks & Facts, 1977, crediting Fannin County Historical Commission. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
• Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1845. Journals of the Convention, assembled at the city of Austin on the Fourth of July, 1845, for the purpose of framing a constitution for the State of Texas, pp. 377-378. Austin: Miner & Cruger, printers to the Convention, 1845. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.
• Text of historical marker, Emory Rains, Rains County. Birth date 5/2/1800, death date 8/11/1878. Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission).

Photographs

• Photograph. Emory Rains, 8th Legislature, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Committee Information top

8th R.S. - 1859 Private Land Claims

5th R.S. - 1853 Claims and Accounts (Chair)

4th R.S. - 1851 Apportionment   Claims and Accounts   Post Routes   Public Buildings

2nd R.S. - 1847 Apportionment of Representation, Select   Claims and Accounts   Internal Improvements