My Genealogy Hound

Job W. C. Fain is a son of Charles and Sarah A. (Rutledge) Fain, and was born in Tennessee in 1845. Charles Fain was a shoe-maker and farmer and a Baptist minister. He was a resident of Marshall County for many years and in 1850 moved to Hickman County, where he resided until his death in 1880. He was the father of fourteen children, and he and wife were native Tennesseans. At the age of eighteen our subject left home and resided with a brother until after the war. In 1871 he married Mary M. Rowland, born in Tennessee in 1835, and the daughter of William and Mary A. Rowland. Mr. and Mrs. Fain became the parents of three children, one son being now dead. Mr. Fain resided in Humphreys until 1884, when he located on his present farm in Gibson County. It contains 114 acres of well cultivated land and is the fruits of his honest and unremitting toil. He and Mrs. Fain belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he has been a local minister in the same for five years. He is a Mason and a Democrat. His grandfather, David Fain, was a native Tennessean and married Catherine Wood, who bore him seven children. He was a farmer and a resident of Marshall County up to his death in 1840, and his father was a Revolutionary soldier and died in Tennessee. His wife died in 1860. Alexander Rutledge, Mr. Fain’s paternal grandfather, died in Tennessee of yellow fever.