Notes on the
Big Spring Methodist Episcopal Church 1891-1895
o W. H. Cain, Sen. - William Harrison Cain, brother of Margaret Cain Hardaway and
Lucinda Cain Stith
o W. H. Cain, Jr. was his son
o Chas. Hardaway - husband of Aunt Mag Hardaway (Margaret Hardaway m. Hardaway)
sister to Adelissa Louisa Hardaway Scott
o There was a Thos. Smith at Howells this is easily confused with the Thos. Stith
at Big Spring
o Thos. Stith at Big Spring was Thomas Jefferson Stith grandfather of the present Thomas
J. Stith of Stith Valley, Ky.
o Lena Drury of Bewleyville married William Allen Stith of Big Spring. Wm. Allen was son of Thos. J. Stith
o Thomas P. Hardaway - (probably) son of William Henry Hardaway and Harriet E. Jones
b Feb 10, 1832 d Feb 8, 1920
Wm. Henry Hardaway had a brother Thomas P. Hardaway who was
father of James L. Hardaway
James L. Hardaway married Margaret Cain and his daughter
was Adelissa Louisa Hardaway m Charles L. Scott