Fulton-Cherokee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Cain, Ida H. December 15, 1905
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The Christian Index, May 3, 1906
CAIN. -- The sad news was received here Friday morning of the death of Miss Ida 
H. Cain, which occurred that morning at 5 o'clock.

Miss Cain was a graduate of Monroe Female College and devoted her life to 
teaching.

She was an accomplished musician and artist, several of her compositions being 
accepted by publishers.  Recently she had taught near Ball Ground, Cherokee 
county, Ga.  She was forced to resign on November 28th on account of poor 
health, and was taken to Atlanta for treatment. Her death was a shock to the 
family as well as many warm friends in the State.  A large number of friends 
attended the funeral, which was held at Providence church Sunday morning, Rev. 
J. S. Mills conducting the services.

Miss Cain was the eldest of eight children.  Those surviving her are Mrs. H. L. 
Howard, Mrs. O. W. Thompson, Miss Edna L. Cain and Mr. H. C. Cain, of Macon, 
Mrs. M. C. Jenkins, of Sandersville, Mrs. Dean Newman and Mr. J. R. Cain of 
Savannah.

Miss Ida H. Cain, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Moses P. Cain, died in 
Atlanta, Ga., December 15th 1905.  Her life work was teaching.  Her life and 
her work were most remarkable and merit more than a passing notice.  It has 
been said the world knows nothing of her great men.  This is more emphatically 
true of great women.  They often do great things which are seen and felt in the 
world while they themselves are unseen and unknown.  The greatest work of the 
greatest man is generally nothing more than the ripened fruit from seed sown 
and tirelessly cultivated by some woman shut in from the world's eye, and whose 
work has been long forgotten.  Miss Ida Cain's life is a bright illustration of 
this truth.  When her mother died she was very young, but she was the eldest of 
eight children.  Young as she was, she knew the inestimable value of a liberal 
education.  She determined to have everything that education, training and 
culture could give.

With this laudable ambition was mingled little of the selfish spirit.  What she 
sought, she sought not for herself, but to impart it to others.  This life work 
she marked out for herself, not simply as a happy daydream, a bright thought or 
a beautiful theory, but as a sober fact, something to be made a reality.  With 
an unyielding purpose, she set her face to accomplish this work.  Every nerve 
of her body, every talent of her soul, was given to it.

That she should undertake the work of educating those so near and dear was not 
strange.  But the fact that the day came when they could all rise up and call 
her blessed because the work was well and thoroughly done is a most remarkable 
fact.  It furnishes the evidence to prove she was no ordinary woman.  Of course 
difficulties loomed up and hindrances were here and there, but they had to 
yield to a will that knew no hindrance and never took counsel with fears or 
difficulties.  The ability to formulate a beautiful plan, one that has for its 
object the development of all that is true and noble and good in our nature; 
the power to execute in every detail that plan constitutes one of the noblest 
and strongest attributes of human character.  It is the simple truth when we 
say that Miss Ida Cain's character was replendent with jewels like these.

She lived a noble, heroic life of self-sacrifice.  If we could draw the veil 
and look into the hidden part of her life, that which is known to her and God 
alone, we would see an amount of suffering and patient endurance, and 
painstaking effort; we would see an heroic struggle as bravely fought and won 
as any that ever caused the world to worship her heroes.  The simple story of 
her life, if it could all be written, would serve to show what a feeble, 
suffering woman can do.  It would serve to show that where there is a will 
there is a way.  It would be an inspiration to all who are weak and yet long 
for better things.

Miss Ida Cain was a gentlewoman of the highest type.  She was a meek and humble 
Christian.  Early in life she professed her faith in Jesus Christ at Providence 
Baptist church.  She was always loyal to her church and lived a consistent 
Christian life.  Her work was often beyond her feeble strength.  Her overtaxed 
nerves would give way and she would suffer acute bodily and mental anguish.  
Although she was a child of toil and suffering, on the approach of the last 
Thanksgiving she wrote a letter giving expression to her gratitude and 
thankfulness to God for his faithful care and goodness to her.


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