John Rainey is about my third great grand father. He was one of the founders of Ruhamah Methodist church in Starr,SC. We can trace our family history to hiim but no further. There is a family legend of three brothers coming from Ireland but cannot connect that far. One of my cousins did the DNA and did not connect with any of the other Raineys. One story that he heard was that there was a daughter who married and had some children. She and her husband died, and the children were adopted by their mother's family. I was wondering if anyone has come across this story and maybe the link would be found that way. There is a Samuel Rainey that was in this area and a Benjomin Rainey also. IS there any connection between these people I don't know. Oh to confuse things even more His son James Rainey moved to walker county Georgia and had a family there and his oldest son moved back to SC to aid his grandmother when John Rainey had died. Thanks for any help that can be given.

Mary Elizabeth Todd