Individual Details

Marriage

James B Cave to Mary Golmore marriage License Aoril 20th September 1841. Certificate executed 30 September 1841 A L Dickinson, Minister of Gosple

Census

Mary Caves age 55, widow, born Mississippi
Elijah, son age 29, born Mississippi, father North Carolina, mother Mississippi
Nancy daughter age 22, born Mississippi, father North Carolina, mother Mississippi
Willie daughter age 19, born Mississippi, father North Carolina, mother Mississippi
Bula daughter age 17, born Mississippi, father North Carolina, mother Mississippi
Anson son age 14, born Mississippi, father North Carolina, mother Mississippi

Criminal

The Fayette Chronicle - Fri., 27 Feb 1880, Vol. XIV, No. 19
Fayette, Jefferson Co., MS

"Murder in Clark County"

A horrible and deplorable homicide occurred in Clark county near Shuburs [Shubuta], day before yesterday. The victim was a man by the name of Caves, quite a young man, but married and having a family and keeping house.
He was entirely respectable and of excellent family, the nephew of Rev. M. Gilmore, a Methodist preacher stationed at Marion, we believe at this time. A widowed aunt whose maiden name was Gilmore, well stricken in years, had her home in his family. The way we hear it, she is, probably and always has been a woman of violent temper, subject fits of uncontrollable anger.

On the day of the terrible and lamentable affair she appears to have fallen into a desperate fit of anger with Cave’s young wife and inflicting personal violence on her. The young man happened to be near enough to witness the difficulty and happened to the scene, presumable to stop it. His aunt turned upon him and plunged a knife to his heart. He lived about fifteen minutes.

Census

Mary Caves Born Dec 1830 widow, has had 5 children and 2 alive, born Alabama parents born Georgia
Nannie daughter born December 1861, divorced, born Mississippi parents born Alabama
McCarty, Fred grandson, born Sep 1883 born Mississippi father unknown mother Mississippi
Mary J granddaughter born Aug 1887, born Mississippi father unknown mother Mississippi
Eugene grandson born Jul 1888, born Mississippi father unknown mother Mississippi
M--dock grandson born Dec 1898, born Mississippi father unknown mother Mississippi
Next household Elija Caves born April 1851 age 49 head turpine distiller, Born Mississippi father Georgia, mother Alabama