Martha Cain, pioneer teacher whose services in that field extended over fifty-two years, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. W. F. Sager, at Stanberry, Missouri, on July 17, at the age of seventy-nine years. Funeral services were held in Stanberry last Friday and burial was in High Ridge Cemetery there. She is survived by Mrs. Sager and another sister, Mrs. Elzora Kay living in Denver. Mrs. 0. E. Higley and Mrs. George Williamson of this county are nieces of Miss Cain and Fred Cain, pastor of the Pleasant Valley church, is a nephew. Martha Cain came to Dundy county in the middle eighties to homestead and immediately launched her teaching career, teaching school in Ough precinct, the Hiawatha valley, etc., following which she entered the public school system at Denver where she served constantly for thirty-eight years, retiring in 1932 to go to Stanberry to live with her sister. In her earlier life she built up a friendship circle in Dundy county which she valued highly and she never lost interest in Dundy county friends, having kept in touch with them constantly thru the local paper of which she was a constant reader during the nearly fifty years that it has served Dundy county and she was still a subscriber when death called her. Martha Cain was a woman of much more than the average ability and talent and in the fifty-two years of constant service in the various school organizations where she labored so diligently and faithfully in molding the lives and character of thousands of children, it is indeed difficult to even attempt to estimate the good accomplished in the scope of a life such as hers.
Martha Cain, pioneer teacher whose services in that field extended over fifty-two years, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. W. F. Sager, at Stanberry, Missouri, on July 17, at the age of seventy-nine years. Funeral services were held in Stanberry last Friday and burial was in High Ridge Cemetery there. She is survived by Mrs. Sager and another sister, Mrs. Elzora Kay living in Denver. Mrs. 0. E. Higley and Mrs. George Williamson of this county are nieces of Miss Cain and Fred Cain, pastor of the Pleasant Valley church, is a nephew. Martha Cain came to Dundy county in the middle eighties to homestead and immediately launched her teaching career, teaching school in Ough precinct, the Hiawatha valley, etc., following which she entered the public school system at Denver where she served constantly for thirty-eight years, retiring in 1932 to go to Stanberry to live with her sister. In her earlier life she built up a friendship circle in Dundy county which she valued highly and she never lost interest in Dundy county friends, having kept in touch with them constantly thru the local paper of which she was a constant reader during the nearly fifty years that it has served Dundy county and she was still a subscriber when death called her. Martha Cain was a woman of much more than the average ability and talent and in the fifty-two years of constant service in the various school organizations where she labored so diligently and faithfully in molding the lives and character of thousands of children, it is indeed difficult to even attempt to estimate the good accomplished in the scope of a life such as hers.
Family Members
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Napoleon Bonaparte Cain
1844–1913
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Mary Ann Cain Shell
1845–1923
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George Washington Cain
1847–1876
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Thomas Benton Cain
1847–1933
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Andrew Jackson Cain
1849–1939
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Francis Marion Cain
1855–1920
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Solomon Cain
1855–1930
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Margaret Victoria Cain
1858–1858
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Sarah Jane Cain
1859–1860
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Mrs Elzora C. Cain Key
1865–1942
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Mrs Amanda Cain Sager
1867–1943
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