Individual Details

Birth

Name: Jane McGlolhin
Gender: Female
Spouse: Hiram D Cave
Child: James Wesley Cave

Census

Ras E Caves born Mar 1867 born Texas father Arkansas mother Mississippi, stock farmer owns free of mortgage
Jane A mother Jul 1848 12 children 10 live, born Missouri parents Tennessee
James W brother Jul 1880 born Texas
Tomie brother June 1883 born Texas
Mark brother June 1888 born Texas
Emmet borther Mar 1893 Texas
Bell Duloner Feb 1863 widow born Texas
next family is Dallas Cave

Census

A J Cave age 60 widow had 11 children 9 alive born Missouri parents Alabama, owns farm free of mortgage
Erastus C son age 43 single born Texas father Arkansas mother Missouri, farmer
Mark son age 21 single born Texas
Emmett son age 17 born Texas
Edward Duley nephew age 21 born Texas father Texas mother Texas
living next to Walter W cave and family

Death

Jane Cave died 28 Aug 1936, in Rotan, Fisher County, of Liver cancer. Born 15 Jul 1947, in Missouri. father McGlothin mother unknown. informat, Mrs W W Barron, burial 29 Aug 1936 in Sweetwater.
HIRAM DAVID CAVE

Hiram David (Dave) Cave was born Sept. 30, 1845. When just a young man, he moved with his widowed mother to Bell Co., Texas, near Salado. He was married to A. Jane McGlothlin at Salado on Oct. 14, 1865. Jane McGlothlin was born in Missouri at Cassville, Barry County, July 15, 1848, and had also moved to Bell Co., Texas with her family.
About 1877, the Dave Caves came to West Texas, first settling at Valley Creek near Wingate. Their seventh child, James Wesley, was born there in 1880; and when he was still a baby, they moved to the new town of Sweetwater. Mr. Cave built one of the first permanent residences in Sweetwater.
One of the older sons, Walter, in an interview before his death in 1954, gave his version of the first school in Sweetwater which he attended: "When school opened in 1882, a bunch of gun totin' cowboys started in the first grade. It was the first time they had ever been inside a schoolhouse. They didn't like the benches or the teachers. They ran the first two out of town. They ganged up on the third. He wouldn't run. He knocked the first boy in the head with a stick of wood, laid his pistol on the desk and went on with the reading lesson. He stayed five years. Many of the cowboys finished school and wound up as lawyers."
Coming to West Texas with the Cave family was Jane Burks (daughter of Mrs. Cave's sister, Nancy Louisa McGlothlin). Jane Burks married Willie A. Corbet in Sweetwater and their children, W. A. Corbet, Jr. and Hattie Maude (Mrs. G. E. Bradford) spent their lives in Sweetwater.
H. D. (Dave) Cave ran cattle to the north of Sweetwater and bought land in Fisher Co. in about 1883. When he moved his family there, Mrs. Cave said she would never move again; she was tired of moving and she stayed and cared for the place while her husband was frequently away on cattle drives. They built a large two story house which burned in the 1930's along with much antique furniture and family records.
Mr. Cave died in 1897 after having an appendectomy performed in the home of Aunt Queen Long, his half-sister, wife of Andy Long, who lived in Sweetwater at that time.
The oldest Son, E. C. (Ras), helped his mother raise the younger children, never marrying until he was in his forties. Jane McGlothlin Cave died in 1936, and both she and her husband are buried in Sweetwater Cemetery along with a child or two who died in infancy.
Children of Hiram David and A. Jane McGlothlin Cave (all deceased):
Erastus Cecratus (Ras) born 19-25-1866. Married Laura Mardis. Died 7-03-1954. No children.
Bell Dora born 2-29-1868. Married N. I. Dulaney, after he died married John Goggins. Several children.
Dallas born 3-07-1870. Married Lupe Hinton. A son and a daughter.
Walter W. born 1-11-1872. Married Anna Simmons, after her death married LaVonia Shanks. Died 1954. Six sons, one daughter.
Adella born 2-01-1875. Married Tom Polk. One daughter, one son died from a snakebite when a child.
Vida A. born 2-02-1877. Married Willie W. Barron. One son, two daughters.
James Wesley born 7-10-1880. Married Nina Belle Splawn. Died 11-1955. One son.
Thomas born 6-11-1883. Died 11-30-1945. Married Fannie Jo Schumaker. Two daughters.
Mark born 6-12-1888. Married Ruby Dennis. Three sons, one daughter.
Emmett born 3-06-1893. Married Callie Moulton. Died 8-21-1977. One son, two daughters.
Submitted by James Cave.