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OHAPTIOR IV
CAIN -ROBERTSON Ir • :' '� �;• •'.-!:; i' :,t;: ;'�c"' ;�
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0 CR) JOHN CAIN was born near "The Shallow Ford," Sura►'• .: ti .i j .'
County, North Carolina, In 1770. His mother's Inaiden name was
Celia Steelman and his father's. given name is not definitely known. ' � '. '-• ''
In the North Carolina census of 1780, only two families of Steelman&
are listed in Surry County, John and Charles. John's children verb _• �'� '; . ••
two sone and two daughters Charles' children were two eons and.
throe daughters; which makes the last named' At into our picture T`• �� ' •� '•t
very nicely (see Robertson manuscript), with Celia as one of the '
three daughters. The same census report also shows that there.; ..�. ;. •,;l
was only one Cain family in flurry County. The head of that family ' ;: •;
was Thomas, and he listed his children as two sons "under sixteen
years of age," and four "tree white females Including heads of : ' ►' ;.' :.:
families." Thomas was the father of John who was then twenty ,.
years old and probably away from home at the time of the census. ;
for he was a great hunter. The two sons listed were probably
George and another brother. We infer that George was much
younger than John, because George's children Vere about twenty , ,�so
sears younger than John's first set. (Robertson Manuscript). The ,•, .�
girls probably married or died before their mother left North Car- : _' ' ' •t '
olina. As further evidence that Thomas Cain was John's father is
the fact that John named his first son "Thomas;' ,
Ellen Conner found in the Teachers College Library at Kirksville,
Mimsouri, an old paper that stated that John Cain, at the age of '' •': ,
twenty-two married in North Carolina. Ruth Blythe, and two years
later moved to Kentucky where she died. The raper contained ao :.;. :.: �= •` ''
many Inaccuracies that it could not be considered authentic:. How• a` ► =; ;',•
ever, there was a large family of Blythea In Surry County, North � t�= �' �•
Carolina, at the time mentioned, and we know that John Cain had a
a daughter "Ruth" by his last marriage which his children called
his second marriage."'
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At any rate, John and George Cain and their mother MoVed to
Kentucky (date uncertain), and there In Madison County in 1802 at ':�':r�;`•''�
the age of thirty-two, John married Mrs. Oney (Gentry)�(Mettin)• �� • -
Blythe. She was tbirtyflve years old at that tune, had beets Mat'rled ,t =,,; <<t; : �,.^. ,,•
twice before and bad four children, of which the eldest, David -�:�,t;��•
Martin, was thirteen and the youngest. Bally Blythe, lras :flus yesrs r,r- ,�,' �'•s'•t`•�1
old. John Cain and his wife Oney had one son, Thomas, who died'
when one year of age, and two daughters, Winnie and CelO, •: ` �' �;�:''•
(174) •r. '.'�.� ;�' <• ; �._ ,
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'' ';• }' #,t_ A its �►
'k ' Asn !Sally Blytbe • Ynitttied John �ro�i � rw;
. of -which John 'Cain, wife. and: two,;daukbtft :dow '11041.�mother, John Cross 'aed wife, David Mist f MA6ho_ `#e �
emleftted, to Howard County, Mise tri. if 1•- i=1 1 i 4 ' i !' ,?�• 4.
As' toward Bounty, Missouri, is a'pivotel •po1hi-tlot' `lei e�l;�'��i►-'
' biatcrt , a few statements gleaned from S*It:lWs :"H
�..souri,"..and other Mibsouri publications may, bet at.• lest u �
ij disputid, or not well dnderstoodl :} . ,•,,`s':, ,:':�! -�.► ; -:;,
About 1800, -Daniel Boone came to Miraoui•1"'frost 1� UAW
the Ohio River near Charleston, Virginia (no* -*"i virdivW5*zM
settled' on a gtant of land of about eight hundred acres gid kha
by Gov. Delassus, and accepted the office of "Syndic" tram the Bpan-
ieh Government. He officiated in the territory alloted to him vttbi l
signal success till the government changed hands, • His grant was ft.
the Femme Osage, twenty-five miles west of St. Charles, and'ad,)ota~. • s; _
Ing grants occupied by his sons who had tome to Ahis toCrrilatz• : �. •:
-about 1796. This was his home till he died to 1840 it UW sp of ^ .4
efghtyshL His wife died In 1818.
In -1307. Nathan Boone and Daniel N. Boone, sons' of old DanielY
:;Boone, with several companions, went from their -home on the'-* ,
,Femme Osage up the Missouri River in canoes with a salt snaking .,'•'
:,outfit, and stopped in Howard County at the salt springs of whieh`"j1i'.•.
• they had -beard. They spent the summer there malting &alt `rihieh
In the fall they took down .the river in their canoes. ' Atter this, the
'' salt springs were called Boones' Lick and the country around it,` - j
comprising territory afterwards made into thirty-one counties, about . ;.•, T
one-third of them south of the river, was known as the Noone
Lick Country." 4.' ` N.
"In the spring of 1808, Colonel Benjamin Cooper and family, colt.
sfating of wife and five sons, moved to the neighborhood of Boolaee�
Lick, in Howard County." (Switsler's History.) The Goveimor kelt'.,,-
. hint an order to move to some place better protected from the lzr- AP"I".
dians. "He thereupon abandoned his settlements and located ae0:Y;
Loutre Island (opposite Warren Co.), where he remained till 1818.' ! .
In February of that year, he and family, with many others, chiefly 1K
from Madison County. Kentucky, left Lontre Island for the Booms'
,Lick Countrl►." (Switslees History). ,
It took these people more than two months, to seleet a route, to,
Rod suitable fording places to cross the numerous streams, and cut , . "
a road through the wilderness, through Warren, Montgomery, Cal.
laway, and Boone Counties, and on to Boones' Lick where they made
the first permanent settlement in Howard County in 1810.• :•Phis '��•t�'
road was ever afterwards known an "Cooper's Trail," and *U;' 0d ;tI�
by alt subsequent migrations to counties West of St. Charles."; -0
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+� '17A }WIL161AN CRoU ' ",• ,t �> �. t ,
1 Reuben Eaten Gentry, an older brother of Gen. Diek*(Ientry (both 3'�^ 1; •
of them nephews of Oney Gentry Cain) was one of the party oft r
n: about 150 families that rAde the ".Cooper's Trail,a'aad cams to
' Howard County, in 1810. s ,
Tradition says ' that the Caine' cause from Kentucky to Howard
Count with Col. Richard Gentry and family. ''The (sentry Family
in America," V. 04, says that Richard Gentry' and. family came to
X13;:.•
S it 1, ,� xb t: • » �i
• Howard . County In 1817, - This Richard Gentry was later .. Gen. .ti •cc , .,, ..
R !Dick" Gentry, who, was killed in the Florida Vicar is
Quoting from Swftsler again: `!'The years 181?, and 1818 wit• t
==s = nessed a great Influx of population to the Boones' Uck Country, as:.,,
all Central Missouri was. then familiarly called. Those early sat. �'? .� ;l:.c"
�' , tiers were mainly' from Kentucky, •. principally Madison County;
Virginia,, Tennessee and North. Carolina $
,. ,. -► , ♦t-; r i -Y Jr\{ •,,Zi t ax,' 'Qr (}'�•i'?�I
�'.',•,, -, � -'; ':'i,' ..f i i•�r:•:1:1}';J" _..:.,} i •}.���u . .. ,�• "-- �S 11 ` '. i•.. s•;: ,.,, ." L �•y , .
Stories that the Calos carne to Howard County earller than 1817,
are evidently, is error, an Indian troubles prevented migrations
;; 1812
till,1816o and s clause in the will of her second husband pro -;1 ti r
vided that Oney Blythe should hive Abe' Hlytbe farms "during her
natural lite, so she mush have stayed. on Able faros till her Blythe ,
children ' became , of 'age, which • ri►as about* 1817, when.: 8allyg the 4 t
youngest, married ( 7G. 4etltry-73lythe- A►neestry).
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John Cain was a feaster by profession, and probably, .had spent
several seasons in the C_ bariton ....Bottomsand around "Bu al o 1►; .'.,,
l3pringe," later Randolph 3pringe,'previous to 2817. Traditions'3 �•`!.R``'''�
frogs different sources, daim that he and Daniel Boon* were intli. -i fares
mate friends, and tha tbee imrs frequently companions on hunting ;%_'
trips. Daniel Boone Lived in Ste CharIes County, but. no doubt, kept . "� : •r }';
in touch with his Kenhaft friends, so it mould have been an easy ' '•
-a,matter for John .Cala to have arranged to go with Boone on some -^
of his many huntint sad trapping expeditions up4he Missouri River.
There is no evidence that Boone ever lived in Howard County (nee = ° -ray •A
Switslees History), bot be bunted and trapped In most of this terri-
tory along .the Misaearf Aires, -through Missouri and Kansas.:
,� s^ When John Cain emigrated from Kentucky in 1817, he took his
: . -4amiiy direct to Buffalo Springs and settled there, while John Crone,
fi David Martin, and many others of their company settled near the
`�'�` present town of Roanoke, fifteen miles south. Silver Creek, a beau. ' 1
;..: tiful stream, about midway between the two places above named,
was no doubt.named for 8Door Creep", Madison County, Kentucky,
whence many of these fainilies had come. '. Capt. ,James Blythe An-
demon (see 12GB, Gentry -Blythe Ancestry) who was born on the
hanks of Silver Creek. Madison County, Kentueiy, and spent twelve tj
years of his life there, thus writes of his early reminiscences:
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,' .t ; �,=r i { + �•' fantastic fairies 21do71
'Dear Silver Crooke
thy dfsnples; weeping'r►illows•drip
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�!�•»'yheir dewey binge along thy limpid breast;
'The wind comes wheeling o'er thy eedared crest,,
j : !` •tr , ` y! •';!'With crimson streams of day In jlvalship. ,; , :..�r•: {4.a �.
i:'.r Fi t..•a •• t�' ' ��r`j� "'• Y 1tr r ;♦ ' 5�.-. �4.^.",t r Ji(Jtf�• -'1 ✓�,.ir : t ii•,'t S 1••••��}1 �I•i til..
r ;The drowsy lolling May files 101tGrin it! of P ; , :�. t���,. ►��
margin dips, •� , f ►,� f ;
i':yVith bees the buds, that o ee thy {.•
j :Like bubble beads, in dancing beautr, :+ 1
••.; 1Q� r i� �•T is.,Z•,1:'i,- -P ,•i�il •�.r•'ii �! . If +�i `:
Dear. silver Creek! ti' C`
�X. �. .` j � .t 1 I .I S": l Kh.l <- �• cJr •. JI• r 1 r t(I1 r'+' •. .. rl `,'S � Irl![ 11 ,r� f (I�S. ..
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t . '' 1 /._ :•1 '•,. ! ,. + •Y •,+ • * • '<•
• �'t �'i�R'',, :`•' goo lou a o and far awaye yet slip �� ; r
:.Sweet memories where thy lapping pebbles:tap,
. • w F 1- �(i,ii'i Jut
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1[,.'_ r • r, ` -', ' , -,The bruised toes a -dallying with thy guest;, iii --. ,� �...Iy
happy daysl no tonging not unrest;:: r+► j rpt{+•tz��',c
.A. � " x J ' _,� Bright memory bears thy rippler to nyr. ltp, :,, • ; +�_' .' ' �
t,.• i-yy .> <.` , .} ,- [+ Dear.Bllver Crsekl" ' '3+r 44.kj�, •, ,,,.µ. ;
+ [1,•`-11 •+ �. N--. iJ t t•�' , 1 b'.' iw +11�"'At K`1S.r�t-} • t �1}t ` 1 ••t
4 f• ., i 'F -xt 1 `r' x f` :. +r !ca ..1 i.:tf1 J x .a, 1 .s♦ t'.
�.. ..[ � •fas art. ♦- -- w-• .. t :.f .• � .,:,.h .. r., �" 1
Aitefr a taw' "years, the,, lands around Buffalo Springs and' ulon�;
.Z ' '
•t;1�1• F•.. .
9iiver.Creek.were found to have defective titles! and sq, M ear tbao . .
41
y 3" try te• most the expense of clearing the titles, many of the NW421".04.
left :their lands, sacrificing their improvements, which wets Iar/ily,►�'
-,...measured by the labor required to build - cabins vrithoat t nal10 to,j
build rail fences with rails split nearby, grub out timber alnd ete"L.;
of[ little patches of land, on which to rains cora for homini and;'•�.�:'
I:, ted meal, and fodder for the work was largely dobe
'` f .groups, neighbors working together, and when the work to be doss•
was quite heavy, it was the occasion for a large gathering and a t
:1+ < first
the work* then a ban net, then athlsdt MI M�� a=•
joyous timet. g
The women prepared a sumptuous meal and delighted in sbrying
' menu of wild meat --"bar," "venaln," egnirtel, possum Od rtorUeyy,
t y !
x
' ` • t with • a relish of lye hominy# honey and bob -cakes --no changing of
3plates and no dress coats. What a man ats was mesetlltid by ew?,�:
'r • '�- , r ' paeity,• not vitamins. Cows gave milk from three to Ave usontbd off' •
�"�'�' �'•'�=the year, and the. flow- depended mostly upon the amount of feed Vii'`.
J,,_ l; --j!7 accessible accessible'on the out -range. Water came from the spring, some- ; `
>t
►herd• under halt a mile away, and always up hill with the. lsea�ry.
3, .
load.,.'Slaves Slaves could beat the whites "toting' water, that would place
a pail on the head, ease down and catch a pall in each hand, and
ti y ►'';' trudge off singing like. lafkr. Whites could not do it; rve tried fL -
'41 .,�jjt t�::,Housekeeping was not much of a job --jest posh the dirt o� ,•�
• •e!;Tr w '''and it would fall into the cracks betiram the puncheons; or It the
no floori the job -was easier.. the author's
grandfatherl� =
:.*ould take pay for hie blacksmith work in animal pelts, of in chop!'.,
ping.wood for hid• eosl pits which he burned periodically fW erhati' `• ; '
`'i'r }"1,'•t .al 'fo! hie shop worts, or "1 will ,res y0s later:''
i•c +,�, y+ � .,• ' ,R t.. .1 t i,. •,!, •e a�•f.. t y ;' ')• i. y1i• �' I
MOCKU
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a�'e
$r Gf � �•r. 14 ". =oievil1Y./:�;5s�a.'•!ai� :r't !!Rei, t�?�I�ii; .ti.:. .�L`lil�Irt .. %'�.•-S.
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.f • • •' , r.y !t } .h.' .1 �' •,f:r�.;• 2,�
•[BZZ, Johis"�' . r► • ::.�•4,�; ,
John Oro • a t r
Oil which he reared hli.tam arm lour miles south of Roano =',h
-� John Cain, in },ho 1 y� and spent the .t'esti of his dayr, and
fi
slug4 Year. bought a .grin' tteveri milss• east o! th �.'�
• Cross farm, knoWr! to Iat�ep years as the. •r .,•
Howard Count Cain ttobartson farm, e' , '�y #,'!
lived loan y Records). On thin tarot. Doha Cain and (see ,rr.:I- V— ;
y Yeore. and his wife Oney died there Jun, 8. 18 ^ family.
t p.
hurled in the taihil
Y graveyard on the farm.. d was
'i
married �mlly 11111 of Randolph Co • 1�8 Jobn'•
1NZ8~ was born* l0 1837 on the only, and th*IP; Aret ehild,•Bar,.•- :�+�Y Ir
Cain '
(8ee08C) n�:.Pain . daughter, Celia# inert ,d W�aahin to sad. In ..a:
••Conni
John -Cain' felt tui Howard Co `' ' �'I f f�
have*epent on County farm In 1829 880
• year In iii n County, at any rats he moved to
may rjt
=wee afterwards Adair County, is 1890 and took a tan . ,'•J
iton River seven miles west of Ki What
' • •,N,
Kirksville. P ds on the Char..
' .• - In Julr, 1829 t: ,:.�• ;fir,
•`.'' • Chariton, River /fromaI d o! 8xa and p'ox Indians came • •` '
Iowa and carne in oontact with c tt).Dthat
the whttbd were grazing on the Chariton bottoms.
the whltss by driving oil' a number of then oattl they inlurlated ;� '• AV
cattle rushed to the settlements, and gathered
• a. Tho owners of the ' •z• �.: `��
some twenty-five men and west to the p of tup •company of . • ;A
them to restore the cattle and leave the countrhe y
and asked ' ' ' '"
treaty the Indiana had relinquished all tern
1'Y. as in a recent
line. The Indiana claimed turf they ll had he south
of the Iowa -''••
Ash along the river. A white can► an Indian ra g to hunt and
shot him. The fight was over in a few min islay� uta Qun, and
leaving four dead and wounded in the ha utas, but the whites }led,
excitement prevaile.i in the settlements, and nds oreVeraf the lndiane. Great . ,.
were mustered In the nearby counties and rushed by hundred men
orders to the seener o, Y Gov. Miller's
f the coaliict. They scoured the country to
the Iov►a line but never foand an Indian. ,
their humes, and may hive built the old These men AOA�1 went to
tory. History is not clear on this fort in the dietjuted terri• �'•
Indian Invamlon brought out a this Point nt.
Another rumur of an �
John B. Clark of Howard mend of Gen.
built a fort in the yr County, in •I88a. One story is that he ' • •' `
one of these expe w Dose Part of Adair County. John Cain was in
Anally included the old fort �w eresthe rot with Cwa� , John Cain's lairds
invitlnK, rich and the location
Here John Cain lived and reared a seCOnd tam11�, an
hers he died in 1868 at the Age of 83 years. d
The following excerpts are from the reminibce
Jack) Cross (No. 12, Mo. Cron racer of John (Uncle' t'.
Misaourir Herald, July 28, 1899, Crosses) published in the
Hyhbriller . ��
QAVIE CO. PUBLIC-
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i. . , �: '•:• ;'�L�..'�%`Rloag sloxt' ebt Arlt ' b � . ' � , `: { ,' ,��' . ``�� l n''"• 1••:
`abf ogy est is the eeettb the ! '• # r .l fL
°f P M�rtP bleb bld Daae
ittA •vet Nora >R no:em
�:•k
�f' i�= `•: t'j i'S i''end adjlaunt teed sttd RandolpbI (Randolph r. poll !t
te" for s
;tetrrard to Miaord • �w fy� ht eetrnid !e x t ,
rs ;� :1 ad Ant settled nut Batfska► atSalt
F.h da ,
.,NIS. f! ''; ; ''' ,' Fee t1M on aatractt o� Lad tw from nor settlethent, iN . Lk:l.
had settled. • It o mile! tooth of Roinekd �r rr '
L .*,y,�` :; •��4:: Doone were the ilyarc fir dlaprted, but shy nsadhtb*%Jabs
,,Z,;;,�;•:; �i0ttree between bite intra that e�tr Isld
time nn the yea" �ft1800
fi e0 and 1814. Caialiiaialla�a�� ;.
'r A,. ' i;; :1..► ?1 ' : tbetM to Irl ! With his faml ped,tlon, gas listed
god
� 1 .
�+ a;, i,..= , t.;.• N h, would tadkstt BW
}t,..•„ ft+ John Cilia
`./ 1;�� • i� 'lowed the gamews my step•gnedfathte, and Was t stati�itatttt ai•
s/ he Count
•1:'Mi 'r;=ti '.:.,i,; bet' the Bleck Hawk War baAmilt ore thickly settled
.y ,,�,; •;; {�-lowod booting. 'There were s CA n oa The Chatito#t Ri+rll+ tw r{: '.
and they were fde Iff"t many Indians in .,;
t friendly at fi fit, but w the � Carla run tW. k f �-
,: of '
�' : �• • �, -r t y h �� o /fat them they went on he war -path.
tleq
t i . Wheat bostilitie/ oknned. John Caina _ � :•� + .
enlisted redet Gedmi•Jo� JK
;.`ttl,;'t 'w had chsrgt of the '
licoy at it was then called, ot t ��, Is file. ado
ld afay, at home with the wont sad tpek.�,,
• ea
�•''1�st, ., sr''{
to K y met and fight the Indians• My lsathee�i wd srbe:ib�ddtd �'r�•;
.t me to me hi: thou, abd t 'n/
1,1191 rt►e11. John Cate was in the Indlan S�ht tGeae �I Clat�e � l�
� y+:r,�{I�;•;�.y�ffy:iabetit littten miio aortbwat 04 � - .:
a • + • battle Cntek. of Kirksville. After this fight it d met `
��i•.! ..; �,�,;l••+R • Several were killed on both i !T was named
�: �•� ,�,, •.:•; l Coaetr was killed in th' aegis. Carttain BrsMbR •�
n battle: Jlftee.r thin fiitlrt G�ftMl Clark �t.aj aM -
:.. � 1: 1+,1 ` -, +:.`• font rtiila wt{tt of Kir
k less. The kv rtl/ol
It was buijt ln• dientond eha" ort hitt • , •
�'' • • 4s w i , one'end was sharmfied of ,
oleket and the Wl
'' • � ' other end was out in the Aointld li4e s
'•' : ' ` �` h0ags were built at each corner of the fort, wi "04 about these feet. block
:.
to. -•' •and General Clark's men used Aint-tock dA I� bolea toand the shoot thrmrth.
rows and some rifles in the fight ore the ereek. �ualart� . .
. father boatht a 1arte tract of land there_'.Ave heedrid act" inciwlia t No
fort.
{ fort. I wa, there on a •itis to l h{e ,
: .,e. Mn now owns rhe 1/n,1/, ran4father when I was fifteen leant old. His
Clark's Fort. Inrti�a Town trail about fi►teen miles South „f
The town was #pasted on a high knoll end tlfe rr n .
int country was the most beautiful I ev►• "O nd
' this was about 1840 i /rood in Indian '1'0*f f/nhst I rtmetpber. i think
marine on the 'lower land$ around about. d could ht itwe glove$ of A_eer j
coantrr i ever beheld. I fleeted grandfather sev{rnittinfes aIra t Clark's fovk est ry y
' • been
div=a there a /n advanced see. After his death I •anted baa sen,
• bteA /bone twtntr-two vnr now ,t k s PoR• •. � ..
mince i we$ Chert Visa Vt hal
toanR Cain sent wort) to General
Clark h At that time tho
ti O'emocratie•• The next time i saw the t me that 'Clark's Felt was still
• he laughed heartily.'• General I dellretsd the trimsep MW +
From James H. Robertson. Jr,. of FIaRslalf�.'Arldens W9
, , •.�• received two manuscripts, left by his father, dealing t►!th h hsv+s
•- Robertson ancestry, from which we take the !i !s Cain. '
tenelvsiy. btlrty of ggVeng, aA
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Cain Pam ,
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the year 1739. They had one child, David Csentry Martin. born May i4•
1739. Martin was billed at a house raising. 'Tien she married Bly.-
by whom she had three children. James, bore May 14. 1794. Polly. bore .
March 23. 1196, married and died without issue. Sally. bora Dec. 17, 1797,
married John Cross (ten children). died in Howard County. Mo.. about
1875. Bly died in Kentucky. Ony Gentry Bly then married John Cain..
Their child, Winifred Cain (Robertson), born in Madhon Co.. Ky.. Nov..
27. 1805. had rix Robertson ebildrrn, died Sept. 10. 1843. Celia Cain was
born Aug. 27. 1808. msrritd Washington Conner. died. rsui ing four or five.-.'
Conner children. John Cain and Orly Cala had. oat boy. Thomas, bow
July 31. 1803, died Nov. 17. 1804.
John Cain and his family moved to Howard Co.. Mo., from Madison
Co.. Ky.. In 1814 or i 81 S. Ony. his wife. died Jvne 2. 1823. and is buried
in Clio Philip Robertson Knve yard.
'c "Reuben Estes Gentry had come to Howard Co.. Mo., ab++ut 1810. Dick
Gentry cause out. I think, with the Calm and that party in 1814 -IS.
"Celia Cain. John Cain's moth!r. died in Iloward Co.. Mo., 5ept. A.
1827. suer! 80 years. and is buried by Ony Cain. her daughter-in-law. She
1 was a Steelman, and was raised on the Yadkin River. North Carolina. Yatkin
or Surry County. coming to Madison Co. in an ars early Jay. Ind from there.
with Jahn and George. her sons. to Howard Co.. Mo.. abort 1814-1815.
"John Cain's second wife was F.mi1y Hill of Randolph County. Mitaouri.
They moved from Howard County to Adair County aevto miles west of
Kirksville where ht rsiml another family end died. John Cain's brother
George came to Missouri with hint at as early, day." -
"Philip Robertson."
"Philip Robertion was bore Oct. 25. 1302. in Orsalrt County. Virginia.
• Winilmd Cain, his wife. was hors itl Madisoet County. Kentuckv. Now. 27.
114115. Ther married July IS. 11 13. and the first named died Mamb T.
I R61. in Howard County. Missotu+. read the meoad named died Sept. 10.
1843.••
RohertAnn's notations from the old Winnie Cain Bible, shows that
George CHIn, brother of John Cain, married Elisabeth ------- and
three of their children are listed in that Bible as follows:
"Celia Cain. daughter of Geneve Gia and Elizabeth. hie wife. .visa born
the 19th day of Nov.. 18 20.
Samuel W. Gin. •con of George Cais and Elizabeth. his wife. was boat the
70th day of De... 1822.
John Cain. eon of Grarae Gia and Elizabeth. his wife, was bore the 18th
day of July. 1825."
Nancy Hernely, born in Virginia Jan. 27, 1775, died at the Rob-"',
proton home July 7, 1861, and wan huried in the family graveyard.`;
She came from Virginia with the Robertsons, had been married two
times, and cared for the Robertson children after this death of their
mother In 1845. '� +
A paper handed to us by Dr. W. J. Conner wan written 1n 1909
by James! 1i. Robertson. Sr. and contains much of the same Informa-
tion, and seven!i dates of births which are lnoorporated. to this : '
0
v.•... -Mom:.r..• Y ����n....�. : � : 11 �
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record. In it, it to said, according to the famnY.tradltlots, ta4t a
• battle was fought at Shallow Ford, Nortb Carollna, durintfte Rev-
• olution between the forces of General Greene and Irotd Cotnwallfs. '
and that the Stselmane, fathar and son, fought with Omtes men '.
h while the mother and Celiao and other girls carried vWeg and pt'or .
{ visions for the patriot soldiers during the fight and . ftllvts.
• , • for several days before the battle.
Important statement:
statement: ., •• ,` jt
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It. also eontaine this ltnp •
The two old ladies, Celia and Ony Cain died in the-Urthefl part '
of Howard County, Missouri, and they. were buried in the grave-
yard side by side. A small rock marks their gtabeb, and a black
{ oak tree stands near the head, or did when I was there last in ISOs.
"James H. Roberta."
The two old ladies referred -to, were John Cain's mother and his
• l wife. Celia Cain was eighty and Ony fifty -sit at the time of *ir
deaths. ' • i • 041 .
The author visited the old Caln-Robertson gfaveyard reforred
to above, in 1929, and knowing that his great-grendmotber, Ony
Cain, was buried somewhere In that graveyard, found two graces
as described above, of which the one on the south side wsa est+
dently this last one made; if so, it is the grave of Ony (Gentry)
9 (Martin) (Blythe) Cain, for Celia Cain died several years before
Ony died. It Is to be hoped that the gat -grandchildren area the
re
great-great-grandchildren of these "two old ladies," in the naar
future, will see that their graves are properly marked with Aadoting
monuments. .. ,_• '': '
Children (Coin)—first thre* born in Ky.: others born in Howard 0d.,.,
Adair Co., bio.:
i. Thomas, b. July 21, 1803, d. Nov. 11. 1804.
• 2CR ii. Winifred, b. Nov, 27, 1805: m.. Philip Robertson.
iii. Celis, b. Aug. 21. 1808: m. Wnahiapon Comet (3Cr 1ei�
!i Corner).
' 3CR iv. Bartheba (Bub), b. Jan. 21. 1111: m. An King Collett.
T. Jackson Hill. `
vi. John. Jr. ("Little Johm") .
4CIt vii. Georg* Washin=ton. b. Jan. 2. 183): m. (1) Chtidlaa Obw$. (2)
. Eva Broyles.
Wil: Ruth. m. John E. Ely. Children: (a) Ckoret Ann: m. Mr. am*#
both dead: (b) David Steph*n (Bad)'. (c) Jgthi (Ghat)1,
Eva,' m. Mr. Hannah ,end liver In Colfesi ash.
it. wriam J.� .'. •
X. King. d. in infancy. .
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Emily. ret. Mr. Powler. ChildRe: (s) M1nni*. ret. 1U1�. t
•• end lives in Bar City. Mich.: (b) Pante: (e) Jessie. t:i. ).ltr.Aiaa..,
' of Hay City. Mich.; (d) Prederitk. 4' '
RUIS William C.
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