Herbert Irron Cain was the tenth child born to the union of Fred Lee Cain and Clara Evelyn Herring and the grandson of Freeman Burris Herring.
Herbert attended school in Norphlet, Arkansas and graduated from East Mountain High School. He attended Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas for 4 years, graduating in 1950. He went to work for the Texas Company. He spent one year in the military services as corporal in Anti-AirCraft in San Francisco, California and E1 Paso, Texas. Upon returning from military duty, he was employed as a Senior Clerk for Texaco in the Gladewater office. He is now retired and living in Gladewater Texas
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.
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.