Ella Rainwater

This paper photo was purchased from an Ebay estate sale based in Arkansas in September 2007. The back of the photo is enscribed "Ella Rainwater and Luia Cochran". Assuming the standard left-to-right method of captioning photos, this means that Ella Rainwater is the stouter woman on the left in the cutout-patterned blouse.

That these ladies are wearing late Victorian or Edwardian styles dates to photo to ca. 1880 to 1920. They are clearly in their 20s or early 30s. And it's not clear if Ella is married, so Rainwater could be either her maiden or married name.

We have identified the following individuals as the most likely, but this does not exclude other options. If you can positively identify one or both of these individuals, please contact us.

• Ola Ella Rainwater, b. 1899, Independence Co., AR, daughter of William M. & Elizabeth Timmons Rainwater
• Ella Rainwater, b. ca 1873, Mississippi, daughter of Jasper Sidney & Millie Steward Rainwater
• Ella Rainwater, b. July 1894, Alabama, daughter of Miles S. & Sarah Frances Allen Rainwater
• Ella Rainwater, b. Aug 1896, Casey Co., KY, daughter of Daniel F. & Serena Henson Rainwater

• Ella Jones, b. March 1867, Texas, wife of Alexander Forrest Rainwater
• Ella, b. Sept 1895, prob. Mississippi, wife of Abijah "Bige" Rainwater
• Ella Purdom, b. ca 1881, prob. Arkansas, wife of Benjamin Franklin Rainwater
• Ella Underwood, b. Jan 1859, Georgia, wife of Henry Rufus Rainwater
• Mary Ella Peacock, b. Apr 1894, Georgia, wife of Ivey V. Rainwater, Sr.