Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1912 — Mrs. Edward Cain Dead. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Edward Cain Dead.

Mrs. Edward Cain, aged 80 years, died at 6 p. m., Wednesday at her home south of town .after an extended illness. Deceased had been an invalid for the past couple of years and has been unable to get about except in a wheel chair. She leaves an aged husband who hae been blind .for many yeavj, and four children, Francis Cain of McCook, Neb.; Edward J. Cain of Hastings, Neb.; and Joseph and Thomas of Rensselaer. The two sons from Nebraska are hers for the funeral. Mrs. Gain was an old resident of Jasper county and a highly esteemed lady. The funeral! will be held this morning at 9 o’clock from St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, and burial made in the Mt. Calvary cemetery south of town. r'. .

A Relic of the Revolution. Alex Teller while here this week attending the meeting of the county- CO'Unoil, loaned to the Public Library a relic of pre-Revolution-aay days which will , intera-'t all 'lovers Of the antique. It is a pewter platter about 12 inches in diameter which was handed down through thd Lawrie family from Henry Combe, who with his four brothers, served in the Continental Army. One of these brothers commanded the squad that captured Major Andre at Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson. The platter is the only remaining piece of a set of tableware, the other pieces of which were melted down to mtakte bullets in the Revolutionary War... M.r. Tetter has had this relic neatly mounted and labeled, and it may 'now be (seen at the Library.