Obituaries: John Irving McCain, 1939, Grant Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: April 7, 1939 Winn Parish Enterprise


John I. McCain of Montgomery Dies Friday, March 31

Prominent and Retired Business Man Succumbs to Long Illness

John Irving McCain, age 87, died at his home at Montgomery Friday night, March
31, following an illness of about three weeks.  Mr. McCain had been in failing
health for more than a year.

Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Montgomery Methodist
Church, conducted by the Rev. J. C. Rousseau, pastor of the Colfax Methodist
church, assisted by the Rev. Mrs. Lula Wardlow, the Rev. J. A. Brown, and the
Rev. J. A. Jones, all of Montgomery.  Interment was in the Montgomery
Cemetery.

Mr. McCain engaged in the mercantile business in some form practically all his
life, except the first years of young manhood when he was a teacher in the
public schools of his community.  He conducted his mercantile business at
Montgomery for many years, retiring about two years ago because of advanced
age and failing health.

A native of Wetumpka, Alabama, he came to Louisiana with his parents, the late
Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. McCain, at the early age of six.  The family settled
three miles from Montgomery on a farm, where they remained and became
affiliated with the life of the country about them.

John Irving McCain's first outside work was teaching school, which he gave up
to become shipping clerk for Dunn and McCain, who did a big business shipping
by steamboats on Red River.  From this shipping clerk job he advanced and soon
organized his own mercantile business to which he devoted 60 years of his
life.

His community life was marked by his unselfish service in promoting churches,
schools, and the general progress of his section.  His only political service
was member of the Louisiana Hospital Board at Pineville for twelve years
during the administration of Governors R. G. Pleasant, John M. Parker, and
Henry L. Fuqua.  He taught the adult Bible class of the Montgomery Methodist
Church for more than 20 years.

He was twice married, the first time to Miss Mary Emma Payne of Natchitoches. 
To them seven children were born, one of whom was the late Rev. Leon I.
McCain, Methodist minister, who served many of the larger churches of the
Louisiana Conference.  After the death of his first wife, he was married to
Mrs. Lena McGuire of Simsboro, who survives him.  Surviving children of Mr.
McCain are Attorney C. H. McCain of Colfax, Mrs. C. L. Roberts of Wichita
Falls, Texas, Mrs. M. Lemee, New Orleans, Wilmot McCain, Montgomery, Mrs. Joe
Aguillard, Eunice, three step-children, Mrs. Clyde O'Neal, Sibley, Mrs.
Eugenia Teddlie, Oxford, Miss., Mabel McGuire, Montgomery, 13 grandchildren
and two great grandchildren.

Pallbearers at the funeral were the seven grandsons of the deceased, Attorney
James I. McCain of New Orleans, T. J. McCain, Clarence, John I. McCain, Baton
Rouge, Joe Lemee McCain, Colfax, Wilmot T. McCain, Colfax, and Wilmot C.
McCain, Jr., Montgomery.