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From: "candyw" <>
Subject: Cain Bio's Part 1
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 00:31:35 -0400

KENTUCKY: A HISTORY OF THE STATE, by Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.

MEADE COUNTY. DESCRIPTIVE AND PERSONAL. 1141

JESSE JONES STITH was born March 14, 1818, in the same house where he
now lives. His father, Richard Stith, was born December 9,1778, in
Campbell County, Va. He was a farmer, in connection with which he
engaged in wagon and carriage-making and tailoring. He removed in 1805
to Kentucky, locating in the Stith Valley, in Meade County, then Hardin
County, of which he was one of the pioneer settlers. He was a son of
Richard Stith, who was born September 30, 1727, in Virginia. He was a
farmer and surveyor, and a son of Drury Stith, who wrote a history of
Virginia. Richard Stith was married, December 12, 1798, to Miss
Eliza-beth Jones, daughter of Maj. Thomas Jones, who was a soldier in
the Revolutionary war. To them were born Lucy (Stith), Elizabeth
(Sanders), Buckner J., Susan (Stith), John C., William, Edmund, Martha
(Hardaway), Jesse Jones and Mary A. (Stith). Jesse Jones Stith married,
October 6, 1842, Miss Lucinda CAIN. They have adopted five chil-dren:
Jesse (Shumate), Charles (Lewis), Mary E. (Adkisson), Mary L. (Wright)
and George (Shumachker). Jesse Jones Stith obtained a pioneer English
education in the schools of his time, and embarked for himself as a
farmer. He had some assistance in starting in life, and by industry and
economy has be-come the owner of 260 acres of land in good condition and
a fair state of cultivation. He is a member, with his wife, of the
Methodist Church, and in politics was formerly an old line Whig, but is
now a Democrat. Mrs. Lucinda Stith is the third of a family of
chil-dren born to John and Olive (Dismore) CAIN: Louisa Galagher, Henry
W., James H., John, Sarah C. Childs, Margaret Hardaway, Olive J.,
Alverson and Mary B- Coalman. The former was born October 2, 1797.
When the war of 1812 broke out he learned to play the fife for the
purpose of joining the army as fife major, but on account of being
crippled he was rejected at the recruiting station. He was fife major
for battalion muster during his existence; also for recruits in the
Mexican war. He was a son of Michael CAIN, who was a native of Ireland,
and a drum major in the American Army at the battle of New Orleans.
There is a tradition in the family that during that battle, the fight
having waxed hot, be said, "men are not killed with drums," and taking a
gun was soon actively engaged in the battle, during the progress of
which he was wounded in the head, and carried by Gen. Jackson from the
field on his (Jackson's) horse. He was carefully attended and lived to
the ripe age of ninety-five years. His oc-cupation was weaver of fine
linens, marseilles, dimity and all kinds of figured goods; he wove the
first seamless sack made in Ken-tucky.

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