BIRTH: Note: One data sheet says birth place is Golden Meadows, LA - another lists Cut Off, LA
Clara Annett Cain Buatt
I was born at Cut Off, La. a very small community on the gulf coast of Louisiana. My father, Elmer F. Cain, was working for the Texas Co. We lived in Golden Meadow, LA (a few miles south of Cut Off) until I was about nine years old and going into the third grade. In 1945, when I was nine, we moved to Lafayette, La., at which time my father went to work for Bob Reeves or Ribstock and Reeves Drilling Company.
In 1948, my brother Charles was born. In 1949 my brother Donald was born and at this time we moved into a home we had built on W. St. Mary's Blvd. in Lafayette. There, we four children, (my sister Catherine, five years older, my two brothers and I) grew up.
I remember many long car trips to East Texas to visit my grandparents, my father's parents, and most of his brothers and their families who all lived nearby, and my one aunt on that side of the family. We were a very large group, many grandchildren, and we had a wonderful time playing in the barn, swimming in a small lake down from their house and riding a sleigh behind a mule they had. Grandfather let us drive an old car of his on the country roads and that was great fun. And, of course, Grandmother Cain's meals were wonderful. All the men ate first, served by the women and then the women and children ate.
In 1955. I graduated from high school and Louisiana State University in 1959. My husband and I attended L.S.U. together. After college, I worked for American Airlines for 8.5 years. Bobby went to Officer's Candidate School for the US Navy and became a Naval Officer and served in the navy for 3 years.
We were married in 1966 at which time Bobby was working for IBM. He is now Dirtrict Sales Manager for the Continuum Company. They design and produce software for computers.
Our daughter, Aimee, was born in 1970 and is our only child.
We built our home in Dallas in 1975, where we presently reside
James William Cain Jr. great-grandson of Freeman Burris Herring and the son of James William Cain Sr. and Audrey Ellen Orr Cain.
James is a member of the First Baptist Church graduated from Gladewater High Schools and attended Kilgore Junior College in Kilgore, Texas.
He enlisted' in the U.S. Air Force three years in Photo Interpretation February 5, 1970 to December 1983; he had basic training at Lackland A.F.B. Texas and Lowry AFB South Carolina. (Note: Lowry AFB is actually located in Denver, Colorado.) He served in Athens, Greece and Udorn, Thailand. He is now employed with Texaco and has been with the company for 11 years and is now the Production Supervisor in Alvin, Texas.
Margaret graduated from Alvin High School and taught thirteen years in the Public Schools of Alvin, Texas. She has an Associate of Arts Degree from Alvin Community College, Alvin, Texas; a Bachelor of Science Degree in Elementary Education from Southwest Texas College, San Marcos, Texas; and a Masters Degree in Education from Sam Houston College, Huntsville, Texas.