This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XOH.2ACIB/2225.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Lots of mysteries in this Cain Family. Our Ancestor, John Cain, born North Carolina, 1773, Surry Co. He first married Ruth Blythe and went to Ky. First son James Cain, (our Ancestor) was born ca 1799. Son Thomas, given as being born, 1803 and died 1804. Daughters Winifred (1805), Married Phillip Robertson, Celia (1808), married Washington Conner. Thomas, Winifred and Celia are given as being children of Oney Gentry Martin Blythe Cain. The marriage record of John and Oney Cain, in Madison Co. Ky. gives marriage date as 1817. Possible that Oney was the only mother they remember, and that they were actually children of Ruth Blythe Cain. James H. Robertson Jr. of James H. Robertson Sr. of Phillip Robertson? seems to have actually put the material together, with some being taken from material of William Cross. (Oney Blythe Cain, daughter Sally Blythe, married John Cross). So like all good history that we have, it had to come down through several generations, and some may h! ave been confused in the journey. The James Robertson Jr. made his home according to pamplet in Flagstaff, Arizona. This information gives our John Cain, as comming into Mo. early with Daniel Boone and/or his sons, on hunting and scouting trips. Doesn't every family have some who came in that way? In our family research, we have found where brothers going to different parts of the County or State may have taken different spellings of their Surname. Who knows, these Robertson/Robinson people may have had the same Ancestors.(Again we claim James Cain, as first known son, as James and Ruth Blythe Cain may have been married in 1795, which would give ample time for others to have been born before James. There are some in Madison Co. which do not seem to belong to anyone. Maybe they were older siblings of James Cain? The more we work together, the more accurate info may fall into place, making much stronger family trees!