Mary Phila Ann Cain

Mary Phila Ann Cain was born on the 15th day of January in the year 1836 in the city of Nashville, Tennessee. Her parents named her Phila after one of her mama's sisters. Her mama, never recovered after my birth and died when Phila wasn't quite four months old. After she died her papa changed her name and added Mary in front of Phila, so she became Mary Phila after that time. Shortly after her mama's death the family moved to Warren County, Tennessee, where she grew up and married James Thomas Camp in November of 1854. After James and Mary Phila married they moved to Cherokee County, Alabama for a few years and the first three of their children were born, their second died as an infant that theynever named.

Shortly after their third child was born the family picked up and moved to Bastrop County, Texas. That is where she was during the horrible War between the states with two young children. Two more children arrived while they lived there after the war was over and James had come home. After their fifth child's birth they returned to McMinnville where her papa and step-mother lived. There she had three more children with James. The youngest Marion Lawrence being born in 1875. 21 years of having children! You'd have thought she was worn out, but it is James that died first in 1881 when Marion was not even six years old and left her to raise their children.

Their oldest married a short time after his daddy's death and moved to Nashville, Tennessee where he lived out his life. Their only daughter married in 1885 and she, too, moved to Nashville. The rest of the surviving children and Mary Phila left Tennessee and moved to Dallas County, Texas. One son eventually moved to Lubbock County, Texas.

She died 19 October 1912 in Dallas, Texas and was laid to rest in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery there.

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Research and website done by Tresa Tatyrek. This site was last updated 01/23/12