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The funeral of Grandma Cain, wife of the (blank) Cain was held Monday afternoon at the Cain home and interment made in the Poarch cemetery. Mrs. Cain had been very ill for a few days due to a stroke of paralysis which was the cause of her death. She was the mother of a large family and all her children were at her bedside when death came.
Elizabeth Catherine Cain, known throughout the community as Grandma Cain, passed away on Sunday afternoon, June 17th, 1923, at four-thirty o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. L. F. McCubbin, four miles east of Carter. Her age at the time of her death was 76 years, 5 months and 18 days.
Grandma Cain was born December 30, 1846, in Chickasaw County Mississippi where she resided until she was nearly fifty. Here at the age of 20 she was happily married to Wesley Cain on March 6, 1867. Nine children were born of whom eight, five sons and three daughters, survive her death.
These are Ira Cain, J. W. Cain, J. R. Cain, Geo. W. Cain, A. O. Cain and Mrs. L. F. McCubbin, all of this community, Mrs. Ona Abernathy, of Elk City and Mrs. R. F. Cherry of Granada, Colo. All her children but one were at her bedside during her last hours. She is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. A. N. Edmonds and Mrs. R. N. Boyd of West Point, Miss. and by thirty-three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Grandma Cain was happily converted at the age of 15 and joined the Methodist Church. She was laid to rest by the side of her husband who died in 1910. Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon, June 18, 1923, at six o'clock at the cemetery by Rev. W. M. Cochran, of Clinton, Okla.
Elk City News-Democrat Elk City OK -
21 Jun 1923 - Gene Phillips
HOULKA Sallie L. Johnson, 88, died Monday, Dec. 24, 2007, at the Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo. She was a member of Upper Prairie Creek Missionary Baptist Church. She was a wonderful mother and a good cook.
Services will be at noon Saturday at Upper Prairie Creek Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Jerry Lee officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Williams Memorial Funeral Home of Okolona is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include one daughter, Callie (James) Bean of Houlka; one son, Clarence E. (Oleane) Chandler of Houlka; three sisters, Nancy Pearl Randle and Josephine Harris, both of Starkville, and Magnolia Hunter of Woodland; one brother, Frank Steele of Mantee; seven grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her father, Willie Steele; her mother, Sallie Steele; her husband, Dewitt Johnson; two sisters, Annie Bingham and Celie Jones; and three brothers, Willie Steele, Johnnie Steele and Dick Steele.
Visitation will be from 2 to 6 p.m. today at the funeral home. The body will lie in state at the church from 11 a.m. to service time Saturday.
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal -
Dec 29, 2007 -
Pamela Shotwell-Waldon
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