Eliza
Jane (Knight) McCain was born on April 15, 1867 in Smithland,
Livingston, Kentucky, and a daughter of James and Nancy Jane (Rail)
Knight.
In
about 1880, she removed with her family from the Kentucky home to
Charleston, Mississippi, Missouri. It was at that place on June 24,
1882, that she was married to Levi M. McCain, son of Jacob and
Arminty (Kitts) McCain, natives of Tennessee and Kentucky,
respectively.
At
the time of her marriage, Eliza Jane was 15 years, 2 months, and nine
days old. Her new husband was just two months over 30. Being so
young, and the law's legal age of women to marry being 18, Eliza
needed her father's permission. James granted permission, signing Eliza and Levi's marriage certificate, "James Knight, the father
of the said Eliza Knight, has given his assent to said marriage.
Mrs.
Eliza McCain was widowed on April 4, 1923, aged 55. Her husband died
at the age of 70 of pneumonia. He was buried on the fifth in Bernie
Cemetery. Throughout their marriage, they had five children: William
Henry; Julie Frances; Cora Elizabeth, who died in California three
months after Levi's death; John Wesley, who died in 1994, aged 101;
and Pearl M.
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| Eliza McCain's Missouri Death Certificate |
Eliza
Jane Knight McCain breathed her last on December 7, 1948 in Como
township, New Madrid county, Missouri, aged 81 years, 7 months, and
22 days. She was buried at Bernie Cemetery on December 9th. The cause
of her demise was cerebral hemorrhage.
Eliza had eight siblings: Serena, Richard, John, Martha, James, Henry, William and Isaac.
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January 5, 2015
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