KENTUCKY: A HISTORY OF THE STATE, by Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed.
CRITTENDEN COUNTY.
W.S. CAIN, M.D., was born January 26, 1827, in Crittenden County, and is
a son of Charles and Ellen (Stewart) CAIN. Subject's paternal
grandfather was William Cain. He was born in South Carolina, and
shortly after the Revolutionary war moved to Georgia, where he lived
until 1806, when he immigrated to Kentucky, and settled in what is now
Crittenden County, near where subject still lives. He died in 1842 or
1843. William Stewart, subject's maternal grandfather, was a native of
South Carolina also. He moved to Kentucky in 1806 and settled near Piny
Creek, in Crittenden County; he afterward moved to Illinois, in which
State his death occurred in 1856. He was a soldier in the Revolution
and received a severe wound at the battle of Camden. Charles CAIN was
born in Georgia in 1796, and was but ten years old when his parents
moved to Kentucky. He was a resident of Crittenden County for
sixty-five years, dying here in 1871. Mrs. CAIN was born in South
Carolina, and died in Crittenden County in 1872, at the age of
seventy-two years. Subject is the second of a family of seven children
born to Charles and Ellen CAIN. At the age of twenty-two years he
engaged in teaching school, which he followed for two years. In 1851 he
commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Gillam, of Marion, in whose
office he remained two years, and at the end of that time commenced the
practice of his profession at Bell's Mines, where he remained until
1855. In the latter year he came to Marion and effected a
co-partnership with Dr. J. A. Hodge, which was continued one year. In
1857 Dr. CAIN entered the St. Louis Medical College, from which he
graduated in March of the following year. After leaving college he
returned to Marion, where he practiced his profession until 1877, at
which time he moved to Illinois, locating at Cave-In-Rock, where he
remained two years. From Cave-In-Rock he came to Weston, this county,
and in 1882 moved to his present location five miles northeast of
Marion, where he has since practiced his profession. Dr. CAIN married
June 24, 1859, to Mrs. Mary A. Bence, daughter of Marcus Twitchell, of
Ohio. Mrs. CAIN died July 29, 1870, at the age of forty-two years. The
Doctor next married, December 31, 1870, Mrs. Susan A. Peck, daughter of
John M. and Mary E. (Jackson) Carter, of Henderson County, Ky. Three
children have been born to Dr. and Mrs. CAIN: Maggie D., Dixie and
Kittie S. By previous marriage Mrs. CAIN had one child, who has since
been adopted by the doctor; its name is William Walter CAIN.