Individual Details
James Foster Gaines
(April 22, 1856 - October 5, 1909)
1870 Lamar County, Texas census, Beat No. 1, Paris Post Office, taken 30 August 1870, Dwelling/Family #389/432: J. H. CAVINESS, 29, male, white, farmer, real estate $1000, personal estate $250, Tennessee; J. A. CAVINESS, 18, female, white, Keeping House, Arkansas; G. L. CAVINESS, 1, male, white, Texas; James GAINES, 14, male, white, Arkansas.
James Foster Gaines, first son of Felix Grundy and Rebecca Gaines, came to Texas as a teenager and settled at Bluffton in Llano County. (COLEMAN COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE, 1985, "The Felix Grundy Gaines Family" by Mrs. John Lauder, page 633.)
James Foster Gaines, first son of Felix Grundy and Rebecca Gaines, came to Texas as a teenager and settled at Bluffton in Llano County. (COLEMAN COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE, 1985, "The Felix Grundy Gaines Family" by Mrs. John Lauder, page 633.)
Events
| Birth | April 22, 1856 | Parks, Scott County, Arkansas | |||
| Marriage | April 25, 1878 | Bluffton, Llano County, Texas - Nancy Ella "Ellie" Maxwell | |||
| Death | October 5, 1909 | Grosvenor, Brown County, Texas | |||
| Burial | Fairview Cemetery, Grosvenor, Brown County, Texas |
Families
| Spouse | Nancy Ella "Ellie" Maxwell (1861 - 1944) |
| Child | Carrie Bell Gaines (1880 - 1968) |
| Child | Grace Gaines (1881 - 1921) |
| Child | Felix Grundy Gaines (1883 - 1969) |
| Child | Myrtle Gaines (1886 - 1965) |
| Child | Isaac Byler "Ike" Gaines (1888 - 1975) |
| Child | James Foster Gaines Sr. (1891 - 1965) |
| Father | Felix Grundy Gaines (1814 - 1859) |
| Mother | Rebecca Arnold (1822 - 1899) |
| Sibling | Mary Jane Gaines (1843 - 1848) |
| Sibling | Susan Elizabeth Gaines (1844 - 1849) |
| Sibling | Martha Annalee Gaines (1846 - 1849) |
| Sibling | Cornelius Wyatt "Neal" Gaines (1849 - 1922) |
| Sibling | Julia Ann Rebecca Gaines (1851 - 1899) |
| Sibling | Permelia Frances "Fannie" Gaines (1853 - 1931) |