Person:Lucretia Dulin (1)

Obituary

DIED - At her home in Blaine, Jan. 30th, 1887, Mrs. Lucretia CAIN; aged 71 years, 10 months and 5 days. "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away."

      Mrs. Lucretia CAIN, nee Dulin, was born in Tennessee, March 25, 1815. Her early life was spent in Kentucky until she was eight years of age, and then in Indiana until her marriage on March 22d, 1831, at Wabush, to John CAIN, with whom she lived a contented and happy life more than fifty-five summers and winters, and who still lives to mourn her departure. She never knew a mother's care, her mother having died when she was but two days old, and her childhood was passed under the guardianship of her grandmother. A couple of weeks after marriage she removed with her husband from Indiana to Illinois, and afterward lived successively in Missouri, Iowa and Dakota before coming to this Territory, in 1871, landing at Semiahmoo July 1st, in company with her husband, four sons and a daughter; and here has since been her home.

   Of twelve children, eight survive to revere her memory, while four she has now joined in the land of eternal rest and contentment. Those living are: F. M. CAIN and Mrs. Lizzie RUCKER, living on California creek, near this place; Ruel CAIN of Kansas; a daughter, Melissa, living in Iowa; Mrs. Tallitha POWELL of Minneapolis; and Cornelius, James and George, the CAIN Brothers of Blaine. Those who went ahead of her to rest were two sons, John and Joseph, and two daughters, Martha and an infant child. Two of her sons, Ruel and James, served in the late war under Gen. SULLEY. Her father also was a soldier in the war of 1812. At a very early age she untied with the M. E. church, in which she continued and earnest and faithful member until her death. All her children but two are also professed christians.

    About the middle of December she began to complain of a pain in her left side, which gradually grew worse until the day before Christmas when she was compelled to take to her bed, from which she never rose. She suffered very much during the last few weeks of her life, all the time growing gradually weaker, while loving hands were doing all that care could to to allay her sufferings and if possible to restore her to health, until the end came, at eighteen minutes past eight o'clock last Sunday evening. Her death was easy, quiet and peaceful. She seemed to become unconscious of suffering and sink into sleep, her breath coming fainter and fainter still, until it ceased to perfect rest - like the closing of a peaceful day when darkness steals upon the world almost unconsciously through hours of gathering twilight. And thus closed the earthly history of one whose long and useful life was a constant blessing to friends and associates, and of whom it may be truthfully said the world is better off for her having lived in it.
   The funeral services were held on Monday afternoon, at three o'clock, at the Blaine public school house, and were conducted by Rev. H. ZELLERS, assisted by Rev. A. WARREN. A very large concourse of friends had gathered here to pay the last tribute of respect. The remains were temporarily interned in the old homestead orchard, only a short distance from and in sight of the house that had been her home for so many years, and will be removed when a city cemetery is chosen. (Transcribed by Susan Irish)