JOHN MANNING CAIN FAMILY OF GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA

Compiled by Thelma Faye Cain Prince, © Copyright 1998

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Generation No. 4

23. LUKE ERVIN⁴ CAIN (JOHN FRANCIS MARION³, JAMES J.², JOHN MANNING¹) was born April 12, 1869 in Gwinnett, Ga. near border of Hall Co. Ga., and died February 13, 1940 in Gwinnett, Ga.. He married MARY JANE CASH [b. 13 April 1872] on September 21, 1890 in Gwinnett, Ga., daughter of RUFUS CASH and MARY COOPER.

Luke and Mary Jane [Cash] Cain first lived near the Kelly place near Hazelrigs place near Lilburn in Gwinnett Co. Around 1901, they moved to the Pleasant Hill Road Homestead. Luke was a farmer. I remember a dirt road used to be just in front of the house, on which a large barn stood which housed his mules, horses, and cows. There were many acres of cotton fields down behind the house.

My father, John Rufus Cain, came from a family of 4 sisters and 6 brothers. Their names were : Calvin Marion, William Manasseh, Fred Webster, Homer Ervin, Elmer Luke, Queen Easter (Esther), Leonard Harris, Carrie Belle, Mary Odell, Ada Kathleen.

Odell Herrington, my Daddy's sister, told me on 19 April 1995 that John and all his siblings except the five youngest, Esther,Leonard, Carrie Belle, Odell, and Kathleen were born in a house near Lilburn, near the Hazelrigs Place and the Dr. Giles and Charlie Kelly's Place. The house has since been destroyed. Since Esther was born in January 1902, the Cains were in the Pleasant Hill Road homeplace by then, and the five youngest children were born there.

Pleasant Hill Road Homeplace is named the CAIN-LANDERS HOUSE,and it is being restored by the Sons of the Confederacy, Laurenceville, Ga. The house was placed on the state historical register about five years ago, because it was built in 1824, and a Confederate soldier, Eli Landers, was born there and lived there until he was killed in the Civil War. The Cains were in the house by 1901, and lived there until 1973 continously. First my grandparents, Mary Jane Cash and Luke Ervin Cain, raised their family there, and afterwards, Leonard Cain and his wife, Winnie, raised their family there.

Pleasant Hill Road Homeplace

Luke's seven sons all learned to work on the farm; my father, John Rufus Cain, told me he left school after the sixth grade in order to work full time on the farm. The girls also picked cotton and worked on the farm and house.
One time when I was around twelve, one of the horses delivered a colt and I was allowed to watch. I have never forgotten that.

They used to have hog killings in the winter, but I didn't watch them kill it. I just remember they strung the hog up on stakes of some kind, skinned and cleaned it and cut the meat up, had large black pots of water boiling on wood fires in the yard. All the neighbors came and helped, and the Cains in turn would help their neighbors when the time came. This is when they would cook the hog's intestine into delicacies called "chitterlin's". Then they packed up the meat, and some of it was smoked and hung up in the smokehouse to cure.

The Cain family has held an annual reunion continously since 1925. It started as a birthday party for Luke and Mary Jane Cain, born respectively April 12 and April 13, and was held the second Sunday of April. After they passed on, the family still continues to gather, and the family gets larger and larger each year. It is now held at the Sweetwater Chapel, Pleasant Hill Road, where the old house has been moved is being restored also. In 1998, I had the pleasure of attending the reunion and meeting some of my many Cain cousins and seeing Aunt Odell.

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LUKE ERVIN CAIN was a member of Luxomni Baptist Church and he and Mary Jane are buried there. Luke had a grade school education and grew up on Friendship Road, Gwinnett Co., near the Hall Co. Ga. As an adult, he lived from 1901-1940 on Pleasant Hill road and corner of Cruse Road in the Cain homeplace as it came to be called. He had a stroke and was in a wheelchair is the only way I can remember him.

Mary Jane was also a member of Luxomni Baptist Church, farmer's wife, mother, and homemaker. She had a stroke when I was young, and I can't remember her ever talking. She grew up in Flowery Barch, Hall Co. Ga. and as an adult she lived in the Cain homeplace.

All the birthdates and marriage dates of Luke and Mary Jane and their children came from Manasseh Cain's Bible.
Children of LUKE CAIN and MARY CASH are:


34.	i.	CALVIN MARION⁵ CAIN, b. June 12, 1891, Gwinnett Co. Ga.; d. October 30, 1946, Gwinnett Co. Ga. Buried Luxomni Bapt. cemetery.
35.	ii.	WILLIAM MANASSEH CAIN, b. February 25, 1893, Gwinnett Co. Ga.; d. November 02, 1979, Gainesville, Hall Co. Ga Buried Concord Bapt Ch, Hall Co.
36.	iii.	FRED WEBSTER CAIN, b. August 22, 1894, Gwinnett Co. Ga.; d. May 22, 1974, Gwinnett Co. Ga. Buried White Chapel Gardens.
37.	iv.	JOHN RUFUS CAIN, b. January 21, 1896, Lawrenceville, Gwinnett, Georgia; d. April 23, 1957, Lawrenceville, Gwinnett, Georgia, buried Luxomni Bapt Cemetery.
38.	v.	HOMER ERVIN CAIN, b. October 09, 1897, Gwinnett Co. Ga.; d. October 04, 1970, Gwinnett Co. Ga. Buried Luxomni Bapt Cemetery.
39.	vi.	ELMER ALLEN [ELMER LUKE] CAIN, b. January 27, 1900, Gwinnett Co. Ga.; d. June 13, 1972, Ga, either DeKalb, Fulton, or Gwinnett Co. Buried Luxomni Bapt Cemetery.
	vii.	QUEEN EASTER ESTHER CAIN, b. January 29, 1902, Gwinnett Co. GA.; d. March 09, 1978, Gwinnett Co. Ga. Buried White Chapel Gardens, Duluth; m. LUTHER J. ELLIS, July 06, 1956, White Co. Ga. No issue. She was a homemaker; nurses aide, Bell Nursing Home, Gainesville, Ga. Lived in Gwinnett, and Hall Co.Ga. Esther, Kathleen, Odell, Carrie Belle helped take care of both parents when they became sick. All were great cooks, homemakers, and workers on the farm. All were wonderful. loving persons.


40.	viii.	LEONARD HARRIS CAIN, b. August 21, 1904, Gwinnett Co. Ga.; d. November 23, 1979, Gwinnett Co. Ga. Buried Sweetwater Bapt Churchyard. Leonard m. WINNIE GUTHRIE.
41.	ix.	CARRIE BELLE CAIN, b. March 07, 1907, Gwinnett Co. Ga.; d. March 12, 1990, Gwinnett Co. Ga. Buried White Chapel Gardens, Duluth. Carrie Belle m. CLARENCE WARBINGTON, Dec. 1986.
	x.	MARY ODELL CAIN, b. December 05, 1911, Gwinnett Co. Ga.; m. JESSE T. HERRINGTON, December 14, 1944, Gwinnett Co. GA. Odell d. January 23, 2006, Hayesville, NC. No children. J.T. was first married to LUCINDY REESE and they had JERRY THOMAS HERRINGTON. Odell raised Jerry who married JEAN STILL. J.T. was b. Gwinnett Co. Ga., 31 July 1913, d. 16 Nov. 1995. He was the son of Emma Turner and Juhan J. Herrington, and a brother to Ralph Herrington below. Odell was a housewife and enjoyed gardening and homemaking.


L to R: Ralph &Kathleen Herrington, Odell and J.T. Herrington, Carrie Belle and Clarence Warbington. 50th anniversary, 1986. December,22, 1986.		xi	ADA KATHLEEN CAIN, b. September 05, 1913, Gwinnett Co. GA.; m. RALPH HERRINGTON, December 22, 1936, Gwinnett Co. Ga.. Ralph was b. Gwinnett Co., the son of Emma Turner and Juhan J. Herrington. Ralph was a retired Building Inspector for Gwinnett County. Ralph d. in Gwinnett Co. Ga. June 24, 2005. Kathleen was a housewife; enjoyed gardening and died Sept. 5, 2003, Gwinnett Co. No children.