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Lillie May DOUGLASS

Lillie May DOUGLASS

Female 1866 - 1935  (69 years)

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  • Name Lillie May DOUGLASS 
    Born 28 Feb 1866  Johnstown, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    • Birth date given in death record as Feb 28 1863, while the date on her headstone is 1859. But age 16 in her 1882 marriage record puts it in about 1866, and the 1900 Census specifies Feb 1866.
    Gender Female 
    Census 1880  Elk District, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1880  Elk District, Barbour Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1882  Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Census 1900, 1910  Elk District, Barbour Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1920  Clark District, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1930  Nutter Fort, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence Wilsonburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Died 30 Mar 1935  Wilsonburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    Buried Stonewall Park Cemetery, Stonewood, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5] 
    Person ID I97959  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 19 Oct 2020 

    Father John M. DOUGLASS,   b. CA 1838,   d. 20 Nov 1872, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 34 years) 
    Mother Margaret Ann HICKMAN,   b. CA 1844,   d. 6 Dec 1893, Peeltree, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 49 years) 
    Family ID F43423  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family William CAIN,   b. CA 1855, Masontown, Fayette Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Jun 1933, Nutter Fort, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 78 years) 
    Married 3 May 1882  Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Notes 
    • Many of the ages given in the census records of this family are inconsistent with each other and with other records. In William & Lillie's marriage record, they were identified as William Cain, 22, b. Fayette Co Pennsylvania, res. Harrison Co, son of Levi & Hannah Cain; and Lillie M. Douglass, 16, b. & res. in Harrison Co, dau of John & Margaret Douglass. Married May 3 1882 in Harrison County.

      1900 Census, Barbour Co, WV (Elk District), enumerated on Jun 14 1900:
      William Cain, 50, b. Apr 1850 in Pennsylvania, farm laborer, cannot read/write, married 18 yrs; wife Lellie M, 34, b. Feb 1866 in WVa, married 18 yrs, mother of 3 children (all still living); son James F, 16, b. Dec 1893 in WVa, day laborer; son Roy E, 4, b. Sep 1895 in WVa; dau Altie A, 1, b. Mar 1899 in WVa.

      1910 Census, Barbour Co, WV (Elk District), enumerated on May 3-4 1910:
      William Cain, 53, laborer at odd jobs, cannot read/write, married 27 yrs; wife Lillie, 48, married 27 yrs, mother of 5 children (all still living); son James, 27, single laborer at odd jobs, cannot read/write; son Roy, 14; dau Alta, 11; dau Darl, 8; son Winfield, 1y 2m. All born in West Virginia except William, born in Pennsylvania.

      1920 Census, Harrison Co, WV (Clark District), enumerated on Feb 3 1920 on Hanover Street:
      William Cain, 56, gate keeper at glass plant; son James F, 38, single, fill-in boy at glass plant; dau Darl M, 15; son Winfield, 12; wife Lillie, 54 [sic]. All born in West Virginia except William, born in Pennsylvania.
      The next enumerated household was that of William & Lillie's married daughter Alta and her husband George Woodcock.
      Another nearby household was that of married son Roy Cain and his wife Ila.

      1930 Census, Harrison Co, WV (Clark District, Town of Nutter Fort), enumerated on Apr 8 1930 at 810 Pennsylvania Ave:
      William Cain, 75, no occupation, cannot read/write, age 21 at time of first marriage; wife Lillian, 65, age 18 at first marriage; son Roy, single [sic], laborer at odd jobs; dau Mable, 24, single, son Winfield, 22, single, no occupation.
      Again, the next enumerated household was that of married daughter Alta, her husband George Woodcock and their two adopted children. [6]
    Children 
    +1. Roy Everett CAIN,   b. 26 Sep 1893, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Dec 1971, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
    Family ID F13017  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1980] 1900 Census, Harrison County, WV.

    2. [S1654] Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV, MR p. 152, Line 62 : http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=255743&Type=Marriage.

    3. [S1853] Death Certificate, WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx), http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=1949027&Type=Death.

    4. [S638] Headstone (year only).

    5. [S934] Findagrave.com.

    6. [S1567] Marriage record of son.