Hardesty's History of Calhoun County, West Virginia

FRANCIS MARION CAIN
 
     Francis Marion Cain has been a teacher in Calhoun County, West 
Virginia for five years, having received his scholastic training at 
Brooksville, in this county. He taught his first school at the head 
of Laurel Creek, winter of 1878-9, and taught five months in Wirt 
County, in the years 1880 and 1881. He was born in Calhoun County, 
January 2, 1863, a son of Enoch Washington and Minerva Cain, well 
known and honored residents of this county. During the war between 
the States, he lost one uncle, Rufus King, who was killed in action 
at Lynchburg, in 1865, while serving in the Confederate army. Francis 
Marion Cain's postoffice is Big Bend, Calhoun County, West Virginia. 

(Linda Fluharty)