When Martha Mahala Cain was born on 25 December 1841, in Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, David Cain, was 34 and her mother, Nancy Jane Lynch, was 35. She married Isaac Newton Jackson on 23 August 1859, in Platte, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Sugar Creek, Van Buren, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Grand River Township, Van Buren, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died in 1924, in Pratt, Kansas, United States, at the age of 83.
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Manx: from Gaelic Mac Catháin ‘son of Cathan’, see Kane . The personal name literally meant ‘warrior’, a derivative of Manx cah ‘battle’ (Irish cath).
English: variant of Cane .
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from the city of Caen in Calvados, France.
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