Person:George Gaines (4)
Col. George Strother Gaines
b.1 May 1784 Surry (now Stokes) County, North Carolina
d.21 Jan 1873 State Line, Greene, Mississippi, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 12 May 1766
  1. Susannah Dabney Gaines1767 -
  2. Elizabeth Strother Gaines1769 - 1820
  3. Lucy GainesAbt 1770 -
  4. Francis Henry Gaines1773 - 1824
  5. Maj. James Taylor Gaines1775 - 1821
  6. Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines, "Hero of Lake Erie"1777 - 1849
  7. Agnes Gaines1780 - 1816
  8. Anne Gaines1782 - 1822
  9. Col. George Strother Gaines1784 - 1873
  10. Martha Gaines1787 - 1851
  11. Sarah Gaines1789 - 1870
  12. Hetty Gaines
  13. Behetheland Gaines
Spouse and Children
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m. Abt 1812
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Facts and Events
Name Col. George Strother Gaines
Gender Male
Birth[1][7] 1 May 1784 Surry (now Stokes) County, North Carolina
Other[1] 1804 St. Stephens, Mississippi Territory (now Washington County, Alabama)appointed by federal gov't as a factor (assistant trader) with the Choctaw Trading House at St. Stephens
Marriage Abt 1812 possibly Mississippi Territory[cousins]
to Ann Lawrence Gaines
Military[1] 1813 Creek War of 1813-1814 - convinced the Choctaws and Chickasaws to work together to help defend the lower Tombigbee and Tensaw settlements after Creek "Redsticks" destroyed Ft. Mims
Occupation[6] May 1816 Sumter, Alabama, United Statesestablished the Factory, a Choctaw Trading Post, located where Factory Creek empties into the Tombigbee River
Other[1] 24 Oct 1816 Epes, Sumter, Alabama, United Statessigned Treaty of Fort Confederation whereby Choctaws agreed to surrender lands east of the Tombigbee River
Other[1] 1822 Demopolis, Marengo, Alabama, United Statesfollowing "Panic of 1819", he moved his family to Demopolis ; purchased Choctaw Trading House with Allen Glover
Other[1] From 1825 to 1827 Marengo, Alabama, United Stateselected state senator for Marengo and Clarke counties
Other[1] 15 Sep 1830 Macon, Noxubee, Mississippi, United Statessigned Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek removing Choctaws west of the Mississippi River
Residence[1] 1832 Mobile, Alabama, United States
Residence[1] 1843 Perry, Mississippi, United Statesbegan farming and raising cattle on land inherited by his wife
Residence? 1856 Line, Greene, Mississippi, United Statesby this time he had moved his family and slaves to a plantation where he developed the Peachwood Nurseries
Death[1] 21 Jan 1873 State Line, Greene, Mississippi, United Statesdied at home
Burial[1] Peachwood Cemetery, Line, Greene, Mississippi, United Statesburied next to wife Ann
References
  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 George Strother Gaines, in Encyclopedia of Alabama.

    ... Little is known about Gaines' early life. He was born May 1, 1784, in Surry County (later Stokes County), North Carolina, the 11th of 13 children in a distinguished family. His father, Revolutionary War veteran Captain James Gaines, and his mother, Elizabeth Strother Gaines, both came from prominent Virginia families. ... In 1812, Gaines married his distant cousin Ann Gaines, and the couple would later have nine children, eight of whom survived to adulthood. ...

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  2.   Pate, James P. The Reminiscences of George Strother Gaines: Pioneer and Stateman of Early Alabama and Mississippi, 1805-1843. (Alabama: University Alabama Press, 1998).
  3.   Leftwich, George J. "Colonel George Strother Gaines and Other Pioneers in Mississippi Territory.", in Mississippi Historical Society. Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. Centenary series. (Jackson, Mississippi: Mississippi Historical Society, 1916-)
    1(1904):442-456.
  4.   Plaisance, Aloysius. "The Choctaw Trading House, 1803-1822.", in Alabama. Department of Archives and History (Montgomery, Alabama), and Marie Bankhead Owen. The Alabama historical quarterly. (Montgomery, Alabama: State Department of Archives and History, 1938-)
    16 (Fall-Winter 1954): 393-423.
  5.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). Everett Family and the Choctaw Trading Post, the (Factory).
  6. ↑ Foscue, Virginia O. The place names of Sumter County, Alabama. (University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 198-?)
    55.

    Factory Creek

  7. ↑ George Strother Gaines, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
    last accessed May 2025.

    George Strother Gaines (1 May 1784 – 21 January 1873) was a federal Indian agent in the Mississippi Territory (today's Alabama and Mississippi). He began as the US Indian agent to the Choctaw, explored the country west of the Mississippi River, and supervised the removal of the Choctaw to Indian Territory in the 1830s. He worked as a banker, and served as a state senator and railroad lobbyist, becoming even more influential in the early history of the region. ...

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