OBITUARY: John R. Cain, 8 Aug 1890 - Smith County, TX TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, September 4, 1890, p. 7, c. 5 CAIN.—In the Carter House, the beautiful hotel of the classic city of Champaign, Ill., on August 8, 1890, at 2:30 p.m., was a sad, sad and most affecting scene. It was the death of the brilliant young John R. Cain, of Tyler, Texas. He was surrounded by his devoted father, mother and sister Mrs. Kouns, of Topeka, Kansas, his four physicians, the proprietor of the hotel and a few acquaintances. Conscious up to the very hour of his death, he talked of being reconciled to die and go to his home in heaven; to go to Him in whom he had been taught to believe since a child. He thanked the doctors and friends for their kindness, and turning to his broken-hearted, loving mother and father as they gazed for the last time upon the living form of their youngest child, he bade them and his loving sister farewell, then peacefully fell asleep in the arms of Jesus. He lived a Christian's life and died a Christian's death. It was by chance he happened in Champaign. Going north with the K. of P. excursionists from Dallas, Texas, to their national conclave at Milwaukee, and feeling badly, he stopped over to rest, was taken sick with typhoid malarial fever and patiently struggled with this fearful disease for thirty-two days. He was born in Wetumpka, Ala., Nov. 24, 1863, and died Aug. 8, 1890. He was a single man. when only six years old his parents moved from Wetumpka, Ala., to Tyler,Texas, and in this historic and rather famous city of Texas he spent his youth. Being a young man of remarkable business capacities and strong character, his father made him when quite young, a full partner in his fire insurance business in Tyler. He succeeded so well in this business that he also formed a partnership in the fire insurance business with John B. Hereford, Jr., of Dallas, in 1889, and soon became extremely popular inthis great Texas city, and by his superior abilities as a business man assisted very materially in making the firm of Hereford & Cain one of the strongest in the State. His corpse was brought home by his parents and Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Kouns, and on the 11th of August was laid to rest by his family and friends of Tyler and Dallas, Rev. Dr. R. S. Finley, a distinguished Methodist preacher performing the ceremonies. Such was the popularity of this young man and the esteem of his noble, pure Christian family that the funeral was one of the largest that ever occurred in Tyler. Thus passed away a young man the pride and joy of his family; one who had but few equals, considering his age, in the business world; one of the most brilliant in Texas, and who would soon have been one of the brightest stars in the State. He was a young man of strong moral character, of high honor, and of those distinguishing characteristics that made him a model in every respect. He was a member of the M. E. Church, South, the church of his devoted Christian parents, and had been for years, up to his coming to Dallas, a faithful and zealous worker in the Sunday schools of his church. He was the youngest of the four children of the family—two sons and two daughters. Mrs. C. W. Kouns, of Topeka, Kansas, was the only one of his sisters present at his death. Mrs. L. L. Jester was denied the privilege of being present on account of her own sickness. His brother, B. B. Cain, a prominentattorney of San Angelo, Cal., was water-bound in California. His father, W. G. Cain, of Tyler, is one of the leading and most influential citizens of Eastern Texas, and his family is belovedby every one. To this model family, in their distress and bereavement, friends offer condolence, and especially do the young associates of Dallas who admired and loved their noble young friend, present their profoundest sympathies.
A DALLAS FRIEND.
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