Hi everyone,
I trust your summer and your research is going well. I have just returned
from CT & MA and believe I have at long last tumbled the brick wall re my
3rd gr-grandfather, the mysterious "August" Cady.
I have written in the past about my struggles to find this man and his wife,
going on the newspaper interview with his daughter Sarah Cady Fairfield
given in the 1930's, in which she said her father's name was "August,"
her
birthplace "Southbridge, MA, 1836" and "the family traveled by ox-drawn
covered wagon." Sarah's mother's name of "Helen Lyons" had been
supplied by
Sarah's death certificate. Because the first outside confirmation I had re
Sarah and her husband Lucien Fairfield came from the 1855 Steuben County,
NY, census, I had assumed the wagon went west! It this case it went south,
back to Connecticut.
The breakthrough began when I tracked down a granddaughter of Sarah's, in
her 90's, sharp and happy to speak with me, who had this significant piece
of info: "I helped my grandmother write to her cousins in Connecticut." I
reasoned that a girl growing up in NY in that era would not necessarily know
her CT cousins, so I turned back to the Windham Co. CT region that bordered
Southbridge, MA (both areas were home to Sarah's husband's family.) I won't
go into all the ins and outs--it would be too much for you!--but suffice it
to say I found Sarah, her father WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CADY and his wife MELITA
VINTON, living in Southbridge in the 1840's and then Woodstock, CT in the
1850 census.
I am not certain if this William Augustus is the William Augustus Cady (b.
16 April 1803 d. 12 May 1882, Brooklyn, CT) son of Eliakim Cady and Jerusha
Spalding (descendant of Nicholas) who is listed in the Cady genealogy. This
family lived in Brooklyn, Windham Co. Unfortunately there is no wife or
children listed for this William Augustus. More research is needed to fill
in all the blanks.
For now I am happy to report that my lost Cady has been found!
Suzanne
Cady List Mom