Beckham County, OK - Obits: Elizabeth Catherine Cain, 1923
11 Nov 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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CAIN, ELIZABETH CATHERINE
(21 Jun 1923, Thursday, Elk City News-Democrat, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK)
Carter Items:
The funeral of Grandma Cain, wife of the (blank) Cain was held Monday
afternoon at the Cain home and interment made in the Poarch cemetery. 
Mrs. Cain had been very ill for a few days due to a stroke of paralysis
which was the cause of her death.  She was the mother of a large family
and all her children were at her bedside when death came.
(Jun 1923, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Elizabeth Catherine Cain, known throughout the community as Grandma Cain,
passed away on Sunday afternoon, June 17th, 1923, at four-thirty o'clock
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. L. F. McCubbin, four miles east of
Carter.  Her age at the time of her death was 76 years, 5 months and 18
days.
Grandma Cain was born December 30, 1846, in Chickasaw County Mississippi
where she resided until she was nearly fifty.  Here at the age of 20 she
was happily married to Wesley Cain on March 6, 1867.  Nine children were
born of whom eight, five sons and three daughters, survive her death. 
These are Ira Cain, J. W. Cain, J. R. Cain, Geo. W. Cain, A. O. Cain and
Mrs. L. F. McCubbin, all of this community, Mrs. Ona Abernathy, of Elk
City and Mrs. R. F. Cherry of Granada, Colo.  All her children but one
were at her bedside during her last hours.  She is also survived by two
sisters, Mrs. A. N. Edmonds and Mrs. R. N. Boyd of West Point, Miss. and
by thirty-three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Grandma Cain was happily converted at the age of 15 and joined the
Methodist Church.  She was laid to rest by the side of her husband who
died in 1910.  Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon, June 18,
1923, at six o'clock at the cemetery by Rev. W. M. Cochran, of Clinton,
Okla.

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