Hi everyone,
Again, welcome to the brand-new Cady surname mail list. I would like to
encourage each of you to "introduce" yourselves by posting your Cady Family
interests to the list. (Thank you, George!)
I am Suzanne (Sue) and I live in St. Clair County, Michigan, about 3 miles
from the farmhouse that Sarah Cady and her husband Lution Fairfield built
about 1870. Sarah lived to be 95 years old and was quite the gal, as I
understand. (My dad, who is now 82, remembers her very well.) There are
three newspaper articles about her, two are interviews and one is a long
obit ("oldest resident dies, etc") and all give differing information! Her
death record, reported by her children who were themselves elderly, is
sketchy as to her parents' names.
From what I've been able to piece together, Sarah was born in
Southbridge,
Worcester County, Mass. in 1836. Her parents, August Cady and Helen
Lyons,
came from the Mass-Conn border area. (The only problem is I can locate no
one by those names.) The family traveled to New York State by "ox-drawn
covered wagon" when Sarah was a girl. In 1854, she married Lution
Fairfield in New York and through 1855 - 1864 they were living in South
Pulteney, Steuben County, where their four oldest children, Frank, Charles,
Louella and Frances were born. By 1867 they were in Michigan where they
had three more children and lived out their years.
I am looking forward to hearing from each of you.
Sue