Question

Looking for Jacob Cain, b. OH c. 1810-12, m. Jane Bristow Mendenhall in 1836 in IN, son William B. b. 1838 in IN.

Answer 1

Jacob Cain

mentioned in the record of Jacob Cain and Jane Mendenhall

Name	Jacob Cain
Event Type	Marriage Registration
Event Date	28 Mar 1836
Event Place	Fountain, Indiana, United States
Gender	Male
Marriage License Date	28 Mar 1836
Marriage Place	Fountain, Indiana
Spouse's Name	Jane Mendenhall
Spouse's Gender	Female
Officiator's Name	A Mendenhall
Page	222
Number of Images	1

Citing this Record

"Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JCJ5-NXX : 10 December 2017), Jacob Cain and Jane Mendenhall, 28 Mar 1836; citing Fountain, Indiana, United States, various county clerk offices, Indiana; FHL microfilm 1,321,634.

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Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007

GS Film Number	001321634
Digital Folder Number	004540455
Image Number	00120

Answer 2

Did not find Daniel Cain, son of Jacob and Jane Cain. If he was born in 1838, he would have been about 12 at the time of the 1850 US Census.

Jacob Cain

United States Census, 1850

Name	Jacob Cain
Event Type	Census
Event Year	1850
Event Place	Union, Fulton, Indiana, United States
Gender	Male
Age	37
Race	White
Birth Year (Estimated)	1813
Birthplace	Ohio
House Number	32

Household	Role	Sex	Age	Birthplace
Jacob Cain		M	37	Ohio
Jane Cain		F	38	Ohio
Absolem Mendenhall		M	15	Indiana
William Cain		M	11	Indiana
John Cain		M	8	Indiana

Citing this Record

"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHJ6-XT8 : 12 April 2016), Jacob Cain, Union, Fulton, Indiana, United States; citing family 32, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

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United States Census, 1850

Household ID	32
Line Number	8
Affiliate Name	The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number	M432
Affiliate Film Number	146
GS Film Number	442924
Digital Folder Number	004191992
Image Number	00548

 

Answer 3

The Daniel Cain family information passed down to me had an additional three men that were sons of Daniel Cain.  Because I have only found the first names with no further information: ie; date of birth, mother, nothing more, I did not use these names when I named the children of Daniel Cain for Wikitree.  Without references, I did not use them.  There was a son of Daniel and Sarah Knight Cain who shows up in the 1820 and 1830 census along with a daughter that we've proven to be Hattie Cain Griffy.  One of the names of interest was Jacob.  Do you have any further information about the Jacob that you found?  Do you have anything further about his wife, Jane Mendenhall?  Could she have been from Greene Co., Ohio?

Comments

I don't have a lot more, Jane Amelia Bristow was previously married to Taliaferro Mendenhall and widowed. She and Jacob married in Fountain County, IN, 28Mar1836. I believe her date of birth to be 11Mar1810 or 11 (difference between one record and tombstone) in OH. They appear together in the census until 1880 when she is found living with her son from the first marriage, Absolom Mendenhall, in Havana, Montgomery, KS and Jacob is nowhere to be found. The likely inference is that he is dead before the summer of 1880, however, when Jane dies in 1899, Absolom has her buried as Jane Mendenhall making me wonder if there was some bad blood there. Could Jacob have abandoned her or caused her to leave him. If so, where the heck did he get to?