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Nancy <I>Cain</I> Stevens

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Nancy Cain Stevens

Birth
Montgomery County, Virginia, USA
Death
23 Oct 1919 (aged 88)
Grant County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Marion, Grant County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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B17, L18, G2
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Nancy C Cain married Isaac Stevens on 18 Nov 1849 in Grant Co., Indiana. They had 12 children that they named: Levi, Irvin & Minerva (Twins), Albert, Mariah Catherine, Ezra Jackson, Andrew, Harrison, Jonathan, Wilkerson, Franklin and George Washington Stevens.

Nancy's younger sister Mary Jane Cain
married her husband's younger brother
William Jackson Stevens.

Marion Daily Chronicle (Grant Co., IN); Thursday 23 October 1919

PIONEER OF COUNTY DIES

Nancy C. Stevens, 88, widow of the late Isaac Stevens, and one of the county's oldest residents, died at 6 o'clock this morning at her home in Pleasant township, three miles north-east of Marion. She was born in Virginia and came to Grant county with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Cain, at the age of six years. Her father was one of the pioneer settlers in the county and Mrs. Stevens died on a farm adjoining land which was entered by him. She lived in Pleasant township, and has been outside the state only once during the past eighty-two years.

Mrs. Stevens is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Enos Carey, of Pleasant township; eight sons, Andrew and Harrison, of Marion; Wilkinson, of Pleasant township; George, Irvin and Albert, of Sweetser, and Lewis and Ezra of Franklin township; four brothers, David, Abraham and Jacob Cain, of Pleasant township, and William Cain, of Huntington county, and one sister, Mrs. Mary Stevens, of Grant county. In addition she leaves 46 grandchildren, 54 great-grandchildren, and five great-great-grandchildren.

She was a charter member of the Mt. Olive church, and the funeral services will be held there at 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon with the Rev. David Hetrick in charge. Interment will be made in the Odd Fellows cemetery here.

*Contributed by Jack Gilchrist*

Nancy C Cain married Isaac Stevens on 18 Nov 1849 in Grant Co., Indiana. They had 12 children that they named: Levi, Irvin & Minerva (Twins), Albert, Mariah Catherine, Ezra Jackson, Andrew, Harrison, Jonathan, Wilkerson, Franklin and George Washington Stevens.

Nancy's younger sister Mary Jane Cain
married her husband's younger brother
William Jackson Stevens.

Marion Daily Chronicle (Grant Co., IN); Thursday 23 October 1919

PIONEER OF COUNTY DIES

Nancy C. Stevens, 88, widow of the late Isaac Stevens, and one of the county's oldest residents, died at 6 o'clock this morning at her home in Pleasant township, three miles north-east of Marion. She was born in Virginia and came to Grant county with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Cain, at the age of six years. Her father was one of the pioneer settlers in the county and Mrs. Stevens died on a farm adjoining land which was entered by him. She lived in Pleasant township, and has been outside the state only once during the past eighty-two years.

Mrs. Stevens is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Enos Carey, of Pleasant township; eight sons, Andrew and Harrison, of Marion; Wilkinson, of Pleasant township; George, Irvin and Albert, of Sweetser, and Lewis and Ezra of Franklin township; four brothers, David, Abraham and Jacob Cain, of Pleasant township, and William Cain, of Huntington county, and one sister, Mrs. Mary Stevens, of Grant county. In addition she leaves 46 grandchildren, 54 great-grandchildren, and five great-great-grandchildren.

She was a charter member of the Mt. Olive church, and the funeral services will be held there at 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon with the Rev. David Hetrick in charge. Interment will be made in the Odd Fellows cemetery here.

*Contributed by Jack Gilchrist*

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