Individual Details
Brigadier General Edmund Pendleton Gaines
(20 Mar 1777 - 6 Jun 1849)
United States Army Major General. Arrested Aaron Burr for treason. Awarded a gold medal and special commendation from congress as well as commendations from the state legislatures of Virginia, Tennessee and New York for gallantry at Fort Erie in 1814. Surveyed the Gaines trace between Nashville and Natchez. Served under Andrew Jackson in the Creek and Seminole campaigns, and served in the Black Hawk War. Son of James Gaines and Elizabeth Strother. Brother of George Strother Gaines. Husband of Frances Toulmin, Barbara Blount, and Myra Clark. Cities of Gainesville Georgia, Florida, and Texas, named for him.
Events
| Birth | 20 Mar 1777 | Culpeper, Virginia, United States |  | ||
| Death | 6 Jun 1849 | New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
Families
| Father | James Gaines (1742 - 1829) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Strother (1744 - 1830) |
Endnotes
1. William Armstrong Crozier, Howard Randolph Bayne, The Buckners of Virginia: and the allied families of Strother and Ashby (New York: Genealogical Association, 1907), 231; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 21 December 2010.