Footprints of the Painter and Scott Families of Missouri

By:   Virgil E Raines, Emma Jo Painter Raines
Imprint:   Compass Flower Press
Dimensions:   Height: 279mm,  Width: 216mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   599g
ISBN:   9781951960452
ISBN 10:   1951960459
Pages:   130
Publication Date:   15 December 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

"Colonel (U.S. Army Retired) Virgil E. ""Sonny"" Raines Jr. was born in Jackson County, Missouri, to V. Elwood Raines and Ruby Nadine Adams Raines. He was raised on a farm in Shelby County, Missouri, attended school there, and graduated from Paris High School in Paris. He worked in the defense industry for three years and married Emma Jo Painter in August 1963. He enlisted in the army and obtained a commission as a second lieutenant. He became an army aviator, served in several overseas assignments, and commanded from captain to colonel level during his nearly thirty-year career. Virgil Raines graduated from Park University and the University of Pennsylvania with multiple degrees, and is also a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College and the Army War College. He served on several college faculties and as a professor of military science at the Naval War College. He has published articles on the war on drugs, several technical articles on military aviation, and a book, Horse Sense-William Rains and the Missouri Seventh Volunteer Cavalry. Soon to be published is his book Beat Your Drum Loudly: The Raines-Painter Revolutionary War Patriots. He also published several short articles on family members who were killed in the Second World War. Virgil is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and teaches genealogy research to potential DAR and SAR members as well as to patients at veterans' hospitals. Emma Jo Painter Raines was born in Monroe County, Missouri, to Oliver and Leta Blanche Scott Painter, attended school there, and graduated from Paris High School. She graduated from Gem City College and worked in the defense industry until her husband's military service began. Jo has worked as a Department of the Army civilian and as an accountant. She served in her chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution as chapter regent and as registrar for several years. She made and donated dozens of ""Quilts of Valor"" to service veterans in both Missouri and Texas."