Jesse Jones Stith

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JESSE JONES STITH1, b. March 14, 1818, Meade County, Kentucky1; d. July 21, 1895, Meade County, Kentucky1; m. LUCINDA CAIN1, October 06, 1842, Hardin Co, Kentucky

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JESSE JONES STITH was born March 14, 1818, in the same house where he now lives [ed. note: now Scott Hill Farm].  His father, Richard Stith, was born December 9, 1778, in Campbell County, Va.  He was a farmer, in connection with which he engaged in wagon and carriage-making and tailoring.  He removed in 1805 (see note below) to Kentucky, locating in the Stith Valley, in Meade County, then Hardin County, of which he was one of the pioneer settlers.  He was a son of Richard Stith, who was born September 30, 1727, in Virginia.  

He was a farmer and surveyor, and a son of Drury Stith, who wrote a history of Virginia (note: see below, jbs, 1999). Richard Stith was married, December 12, 1798, to Miss Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Maj. Thomas Jones, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. To them were born Lucy (Stith), Elizabeth (Sanders), Buckner J., Susan (Stith), John C., William, Edmund, Martha (Hardaway), Jesse Jones and Mary A. (Stith). Jesse Jones Stith married, October 6, 1842, Miss Lucinda Cain. They have adopted five children: Jesse (Shumate), Charles (Lewis), Mary E. (Adkisson), Mary L. (Wright) and George (Shumachker).**** Jesse Jones obtained a pioneer English education in the schools of his time, and embarked for himself as a farmer.

He had some assistance in starting in life, and by industry and economy has become the owner of 260 acres of land in good condition and a fair state of cultivation. He is a member, with his wife, of the Methodist Church, and in politics was formerly an old line Whig; but is now a Democrat. Mrs. Lucinda Stith is the third of a family of children born to John and Olive (Dismore) Cain: Louisa Galagher, Henry W., James H., John, Sragh C. Childs, Margaret Hardaway, Olive J., Alverson and Mary E. Coalman. The former was born October 2, 1797. When the war of 1812 broke out he learned to play the fife for the purpose of joining the army as fife major, but on account of being crippled he was rejected at the recruiting station. He was fife major for battalion muster during his existence; also for recruits in the Mexican war.

He was a son of Michael Cain, who was a native of Ireland, and a drum major in the American Army at the battle of New Orleans. There is a tradition in the family that during that battle, the fight having waxed hot, he said, "men are not killed with drums," and taking a gun was soon actively engaged in the battle, during the progress of which he was wounded in the head, and carried by Gen. Jackson from the field on his (Jackson's) horse. He was carefully attended and lived to the ripe age of ninety-five years. His occupation was weaver of fine linens, marseilles, dimity and all kinds of figured goods; he wove the first seamless sack made in Kentucky.