Reference: Floy Cain and Audrey Cain, Gladewater, Texas (page 132 of Family Tree data provided by Delmar Cain).
Fred Lee Cain worked in many fields of endeavor during his life. He was a railroad engineer on the Arkansas Central Railroads owned and operated a ferry on the Arkansas River at Morrison Bluff, Arkansas; farmed in the Spadra bottoms at the beginning of World War II, and spent 32 years working in the oil fields for Texaco. (Added note from Editor: Believe the farming era was "at the beginning of WW I instead as stated in reference.)
Fred and Clara had four sons in World War II and lost Charles Monroe Cain in Hungary. He was a member of a bomber crew.
The following is the record of Fred Lee Cain and his sons.
with Texaco:
Fred Lee Cain 32 years
Delmar Ray Cain 43
Elmer Faye Cain
(With other companies 40
(His consulting Company 14
Buford Lee Cain 43
James William Cain 43
Fred Burris Cain 33
Herbert Cain 32
Total years 280
DEATH: Deceased at 7 months age.
Charles Monroe Cain is the son of Fred Lee Cain and the grandson of Freeman Burris Herring.
Charles attended school in Norphlet, Arkansas and graduated from East Mountain High School in East Mountain, Texas.
He worked as a welder for Brown & Root in Houston, Texas and later employed at the Ozark Ordnance Plant in El Dorado, Arkansas.
He joined the United States Air Force in 1943, He trained at: Kessler Field, Mississippi, Tyndall Field, Florida, Springfield, Massachusetts, and Charleston, South Carolina. He went overseas July 1944 and was stationed in Fogga, Italy. He was a SSgt. and a flight mechanic on a B 24 Liberator with the 15th Army Air Force. Word was received that Charles was missing in action over Hungary. The War Department stated that he did not return from a mission, the 22nd August 1944. His family was notified 23rd, September 1944.
After two years Charles was officially declared dead, and the remains had been recovered and identified. The family requested that the remains of Charles be sent back to the United States for burial. He was buried in the Arlington Military Cemetery, Little Rock, Arkansas in 1949.
BURIAL: After two years Charles was officially declared dead, and the remains had been recovered and identified. The family requested that the remains of Charles be sent back to the United States for burial. He was buried in the Arlington Military Cemetery, Little Rock, Arkansas in 1949.
DEATH: He was a SSgt. and a flight mechanic on a B 24 Liberator with the 15th Army Air Force. Word was received that Charles was missing in action over Hungary. The War Department stated that he did not return from a mission, the 22nd August 1944. His family was notified 23rd, September 1944.
1st husband Charles Cain killed in war; Charles' brother James William Cain then married Audrey. Audrey was employed as secretary of the First Baptist Church, Gladewater, Texas for 11 years.
DEATH: Food Poisoning
DEATH: Diptheria
1st husband Charles Cain killed in war; Charles' brother James William Cain then married Audrey. Audrey was employed as secretary of the First Baptist Church, Gladewater, Texas for 11 years.
Married: 21 Aug 1908
Complications from diabetes