Dear Beckpuffs:
THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! the info on Ezra Cady has been a great help... I had
all the info for Ezras folks, and way way back before them and so on, (I even
downloaded his and his father John's land deeds)however, the children listed
to him and Julia were always just the 3 kids Franklin "D". (which I am
assuming stands for Julias maiden name "D"ixon) and the twins William and
Clinton John, the one who died at 4 years of age...my dilema has always been
that I decend from Albert Cady, Ezra's third child. Never ever have I seen
records of these children. We all assumed that it was because Julia probobly
wasn't their mother...that either Ezra had a previous wife or had the first
kids with an Indian (Mohawk) wife. Her name as far as my mother (who is
living still) recalls was either Mary Maynard or ?? We couldn't figure any of
it out until one day I was looking at these two tin types that Albert had
handed down to my grandma (his eldest Ellen)who handed them to my mom and
then to me. The story went that Ezra carried these two tin types on his
person all of his adult life and when he passed on my grandma Ellen got them.
They were in these old much worn dilapedated paper frames. One day I decided
to take them out of them. Always scrawled on the paper backing in my grandmas
writing was "Ezras wife " She was most prim and proper looking and demure
and dressed in something like you see in gone with the wind. Very expensive
clothes. The other woman was obviously native Indian and dressed in a plain
dress, and hair worn straight. Dark eyes dark features and looking like most
of US in the Cady line. (chuckle) I took them out and there scratched on the
actual tin type back I could make out "JULIA" on the finely dressed woman and
"MARY" on the other. My mom examined it and said it wasn't Alberts writing
(she had seen his hand writing alot...nor her mothers as was on the paper
back that concealed the tin type backing) so I assumed that it was written in
Ezra's hand. Then it occured to me that maybe he had two lines of kids...one
with Mary(the native) and one with Julia. I think this is right. All the old
timers sort of gossiped about the Mohawk INJUN side of the Cadys and my
grandma was ashamed of it...wouldn't really deny the Mohawk side but even
when it was later in the 1970's "cool" to be from a native line she would
clam up about it all. I tried many times to get her to tell and why she was
unwilling to share her line with me many many times...she would just say
leave it be and so on... I can only assume her shame came from the fact that
either Ezra never "married" the INJUN or maybe even that she either died, ran
off or left him or??? perhaps they just had kids together .Although Ezra
never actually denied them as he and Albert shared land and so on. They all
had his Cady name...and then he married(which is on record)Julia. Since I
KNOW I come from the Albert lineage I cannot assume I am related to the DIXON
line through Julia. WHich is a shame actually because it is easy to trace
their tree and it is RICH with lots of diaries and records. I do not know
what became of the one of her twins (William) or where his line went or ended
up...Twins run in our families though. But I never saw the name Lyndsey...my
mom of course knew her aunt Addie(Abagail) and knew of Sydney who moved to
Montana(Forsythe) and he supposedly married an Indian rider who was in some
rodeo of sorts and was called and Indian "princess" (yeah right) anyway he
had a HUGE cattle ranch and came back once or twice to Twin Lakes and stayed
with Grandma and his son was named Orman...that's all my mom can recall. She
is pretty sure Orman was the youngest of Sydneys kids...I will now start
searching for Lyndsey and I wonder now as I write this is that a girls or
boys name or either? anyway THANKs again for the help. How are you related to
the Cadys? I am fowarding this to my cousin in Muskegon as she has been
looking too.
With thankful and warmest regards,
Debby Wright