CAIN, Rev. J. N., Beeville Bee, 5 Feb 1904:

Rev. J. N. CAIN, the oldest minister of the West Texas Presbytery, died Wednesday at his 
home near Normanna, and was buried in the cemetery there yesterday with Masonic 
honors. 

The deceased was in his eighty-fourth year, a native of South Carolina and a graduate 
of the Columbia University, one of the oldest educational institutions in America, and the 
alma mater of many notable men of the south. 

He was an early immigrant to Texas and spent the active years of his life in the ministry 
of the Presbyterian Church, retiring a few years ago. He was known as one of the most 
erudite men in the Presbytery, reading the original Greek texts of the gospels with as much 
facility as the English translations. 

He leaves an aged wife and several children to mourn his death.