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Ritchie Gazette, October 2, 1936
James T. Cain Dead
Funeral services were held Tuesday from the Baptist church at Cairo for James T. Cain, 90, Confederate veteran, who died Sunday at the home of a son, Creed Cain, at Rusk. The Rev. Henry L. Carr officiated and interment was in Odd Fellows cemetery.
He was born in 1846 in Virginia, a son of the late John and Lydia Stewart Cain. He enlisted in the forty-second regiment of Virginia volunteers in 1863 and served until the close of the war.
He saw service around Fredericksburg, Charlottesville and was at Chancellorsville when Stonewall Jackson lost his life. Following the close of the war, he came to Ritchie county, where he since resided. He was a member of the Baptist church.
Surviving are his wife; two sons and two daughters, Creed of Rusk, Boyd of East Rainelle, W. Va.; Mrs. Flora Twyman of Elwington, Ohio, and Mrs. B. H. Dotson, of Middletown, Ohio; two brothers, Robert E. and J. W. P. Cain, both of Petroleum and eight grandchildren.
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Ritchie Gazette, October 2, 1936
James T. Cain Dead
Funeral services were held Tuesday from the Baptist church at Cairo for James T. Cain, 90, Confederate veteran, who died Sunday at the home of a son, Creed Cain, at Rusk. The Rev. Henry L. Carr officiated and interment was in Odd Fellows cemetery.
He was born in 1846 in Virginia, a son of the late John and Lydia Stewart Cain. He enlisted in the forty-second regiment of Virginia volunteers in 1863 and served until the close of the war.
He saw service around Fredericksburg, Charlottesville and was at Chancellorsville when Stonewall Jackson lost his life. Following the close of the war, he came to Ritchie county, where he since resided. He was a member of the Baptist church.
Surviving are his wife; two sons and two daughters, Creed of Rusk, Boyd of East Rainelle, W. Va.; Mrs. Flora Twyman of Elwington, Ohio, and Mrs. B. H. Dotson, of Middletown, Ohio; two brothers, Robert E. and J. W. P. Cain, both of Petroleum and eight grandchildren.
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