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/2169.1.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: YOUR POST COULD HELP SOLVE SOME OF THE CAIN CONNECTIONS IN MO. THOMAS CAIN, OF JAMES OF JOHN, ALSO LIVED IN PUTNAM CO. MO. THEIR WAS A CONNECTION. STILL TO BE PROVEN. THE CAINSVILLE CAIN FAMILIES, HAVE A BOOK WRITTEN, BUT, NOW SEEM TO NOT KNOW WHO THEIR FIRST DANIEL BELONGED TO THAT MARRIED CATHERINE VAN NOY IN KNOX CO KY. THESE CAIN FAMILIES WERE ALL CONNECTED SOMEHOW. FINDING THE GOLDEN KEY IS A CHALLENGE. OUR CELIA STEELMAN CAIN, IF GIVEN AS HAVING MARRIED THOMAS CAIN, BUT, AGAIN WE CANNOT GET ANY CLUE AS TO WHO THIS THOMAS CAIN BELONGED TO. JOHN, THEIR SON, BORN SURRY CO. N. CAROLINA, 1773, AND DIED IN ADAIR CO. MO. 1851. SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR APART. JOHN CAME INTO HOWARD CO., MO. WITH OTHER CAIN FAMILIES, SOME WENT ON MO. SIDE OF RIVER AND SOME ON ILL. SIDE. THERE WERE 2 THOMAS CAIN MEN IN REV. WAR IN VIRGINIA. KNOW ISHAM CAIN HAD A THOMAS, AND MATTHIAS CAIN HAD A THOMAS, BOTH HAD BEEN IN VIRGINIA. HARD TO PROVE THE RELATIONSHIP?