Willis Cain

Children with Alice Hollaway
Walter A. Cain	b. Sep 1876	d.?alive in 1943	m.
James Edgar Cain	b. Oct 1878	d.	m.
Abner Benson Cain	b. 21 Apr 1879 Ark	d. alive 1943	m.
Samuel Earl Cain	b. 13 June 1881	d. 10 May 1946 Chicot, Ark	m.
Alena or Alma Cain	b. 1886	d. alive 1910	m. perhaps mar. Septimus L. Austin
Willis Anderson Cain Jr.(twin)	b. 27 Feb 1893	d. 25 July 1946 Pulaski, Ark.	m.
Mamie Cain (twin)	b. 27 Feb 1893	d. alive 1943	m. (?) Haberyan

[ Miss., Franklin Co., 311]
Hollaway, W. L	29m	farmer	$10000/16241	Miss	1831
Sarah	26f	domestic		Miss	1834
George	9m			Miss
Ritchard	8m			Miss
Alice	6f			Miss
William	3m			Miss
John	2m			Miss
Mary	3/12f			Miss

Then he, with seventeen others, ran away to Vicksburg, and joined Company F, Twentieth Alabama Infantry, and served three years and four months. He was on detached service at Jackson, and after the parole he was in the battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, Dalton, and in the spring of 1863 was at Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Atlanta, Rough and Ready, Dalton (where they captured 200 negroes), through Huntsville, Ala., to Florence, Columbia, Tenn., Franklin, Nashville, and was then fighting nearly all the time back to Shoal Creek, near Florence. They were then at Bentonville, N. C., were afterward sent to guard some salt at Broad River Bridge, N. C., then went to Blackhawk Station, then to Atlanta, from there to Tallapoosa River, and then Mr. Cain, with one companion, came down that river to the Alabama, and from there to Montgomery, where he was captured. He was held over night, and then went on foot to Selma, from which place he made his way home after an absence of over three years. later he began clerking for R. W. Cole in a grocery house, continued with this for six months, and then went to Selma, where he filled the same position for Hanna & Morton for eight months. From there he went to Mobil, thence to Mansfield, De Soto Parish, La., and three months later started for Mexico. he got as far as Guadaloupe River, and then returned to Louisiana. Three months after this he went to Marion, Union Parish, La., clerked for B. B. Thomas for three years, and then, on December 20, 1874 he married Miss Alice Hollaway, daughter of James Hollaway, an old citizen of this county. Five children have been born to this union - four sons and a daughter: Walter A., James E., Benson, Samuel E. and Alma. Mr. Cain has been deputy sheriff nearly ever since he settled in this county, and has also held the position of school director. In politics he adheres closely to the Democratic party, and socially he is a member of the K. of H. Mrs. Cain is a member of the Methodist Church. The parents of Mr. Cain, Anderson and Sarah (Benson) Cain, were natives, respectively, of North Carolina and Alabama. The Cains are of Irish extraction, and the Bensons of Scotch. Wiley Cain, the father of Anderson, and his wife, Sarah, came to America from Ireland early in the present century. Anderson left home when fifteen or sixteen years of age, and came Alabama. He drove a team during the day, studied law during the night, and was rewarded by being elected clerk of the circuit court, which position he filled for twelve years. He became one of the leading attorneys of the county, and before the war, had accumulated considerable property, being the owner of a large plant(ation -ec) and fifty work hands. He died in the spring of 1865, and was buried in that county. He was both a Mason and an Odd Fellow. He left a family of three children -- a son and two daughters he wife having died in 1850. One of the daughters is living in Ashley County, and is the wife of George Franklin. The other sister died in Ashley County in February, 1885. "

After the first year of the war he was left at home with his brother, John D., to care for four younger brothers and one sister, and he set himself dutifully to this task, giving them advantages for acquiring an education. In October, 1863, he left home to join a cavalry company, and was on detached duty most of the time until the close of the war, as a guard in the commissar department. His company was disbanded at Marshall, Tex., in the spring of 1865, and he immediately cam home and once more began tilling the soil. Through his own exertions he has become the owner of 400 acres of land, 150 acres of which are under cultivation, and although he has resided here since 1877, he has only been the owner of the place since 1880, but has it nicely improved with buildings, etc. His land yields average crops, and prolific crops of berries and fuits are raised. he was married on December 18, 1870, to Miss S. F. Cain, of Ashley County, a daughter of Anderson Cain, who died in 1807, after having served as county clerk in Alabama for sixteen years. He was the father of three children. W. A. Cain (a son) now lives in Portland, Ashland County. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin have five children: Allie May, Eula, Ernest, Floyd and Arthur. Mr. Franklin belongs to the K. of H., and politically is a Democrat.

Cain,    Willis          head     w m     July 1845       54 mar. 26 yrs.    Alabama    N. Carolina    Alabama farmer
, Alice C..     wife    w f    Sept 1855     44    mar. 26 yrs.    Arkansas Mississippi Mississippi
, Walter A.    son       w m    Sept   1876      23 s       Arkansas Alabama         Arkansas   day laborer
, Edgar      son     w m    Oct     1878    22 s      Arkansas Alabama         Arkansas day laborer
      , Benson        son    w m    Apr    1879    21 s                           Arkansas Alabama         Arkansas day laborer
      , Samuel L. son       w m    Jun    1880    19 s                            Arkansas Alabama         Arkansas   day laborer
            , Alma      dau    w f Sep 1886    13 s       Arkansas    Alabama      Arkansas at school
    , Willis    son     w m    Feb 1893    7 s        Arkansas Alabama     Arkansas at school
        , Marnie    dau     w f    Feb 1893    7 s       Arkansas       Alabama     Arkansas    at school
        , Cynthia    servant      b f    Jun   1887    13s       Arkansas Arkansas     Arkansas    servant
Meeks, Sonny      servant        b m    Jun 1890    9s       Arkansas Arkansas     Arkansas   servant

address: Hotel Masiou, Little Rock Ark, Box 246, US PO
date of birth       Feb      27     1893    age 24
natural born citz. , where     Portland Ark.   USA
job:     Traveling Salesman
business:      Weyman Bruton Co.
where:         Little Rock Ark
dependents:   Father and Mother
married/single      Single         race    Caucasian
height       Tall             build          Medium
eyes         Grey            hair             Brown

Abner Benson Cain
address: Portland, Ashley Ark
date of birth       April 21 1879 age 39
natural born citz. , where     Portland Ark.   USA
job:      Salesman
business:      Herran D. Cochran
where:         Portland, Ark
nearest relative. Alice Cain, Portland
married/single      Single         race    Caucasian
height       Tall             build          Medium
eyes         Blue            hair             Brown

Samuel Earl Cain      #1269
address: Portland, Ashley Ark
date of birth       June 13 1881 age 37
natural born citz. , where     Portland Ark.   USA
job:      Planter
business:      Sol Meyer
where:         Eudora, Chicot, Ark
nearest relative. Alice Cain, Portland
married/single      Single         race    Caucasian
height       Tall             build          Medium
eyes         Blue            hair             Brown
obviously physically disqualified:
           Loss one foot

residence   503 East 7th Street, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas
mailing address: same
telephone:   8418              Age      50   place of birth Portland, Ark.
name of person who will always know where your address:
Mrs. Mamie Haberyan, Lake Village, Arkansas. (sister)
unemployed June 21st, 1943

Abner Benson Cain       registers for draft of WWII, #950
residence    R.F.D. I.        Eudora         , Chicot, Ark.
mailing address.           Same
telephone    None          age 63         place of birth Portland, Ark
name of person who will always know where your address:
Mr. James Edgar Cain, R. F. D. I. , Eudora, Ark
employer:    Live with brother but is unable to work.
place of employment:     R. F. D. I. , Eudora, Ark.