Susanna Cain
CAIN
Posted By: Lisa Walden (email)
Date: 6/22/2020 at 19:04:38
CAIN. At the house of her daughter, Sr. Susannah Atkinson, in Lamoni, Iowa, at 6:30 p.m., December 19, 1893. of acute pneumonia, Sr. Susannah Cain, widow of Bro. Peter B. Cain, formerly of Nortonville, California.
Sr. Cain was born July 31, 1819, at Healey, Cambridgeshire, England; was baptized at Antioch, Contra Costa county, California, September 20, 1868. by Elder Orrin Smith. At the time of her departure from this life she was aged 74 years, 5 months, 18 days.
She was the mother of six children; one son died in infancy, one was killed while working in the mines of British Columbia: she leaves four daughters, two being present at her funeral; twenty-five grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren.
She was a woman of great faith, integrity of purpose, and purity of thought and life.
She was buried from the Saints' church, in Rose Hill cemetery, Bro. Asa S. Cochran in charge; President Joseph Smith pronouncing a short eulogy on her character and life, December 21.
Source: The Saints' Herald - volume 41 (1894) pg. 15 [The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]
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