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Info okay, spelling way off.
Here is what I have on Silas:
Silas Abiathar Canaday born January 14, 1852. He married Rachel Jane Penland. He was an
attorney and served in the Indiana State Legislature.
Here are his folks:
David M. Canaday born June 25, 1823 and died October 16, 1879. He married Mary A. Moore on
September 23, 1846. Based on census reports and info from a descendant, the kids, all born
in Randolph County, Indiana, were:
And Dave's folks:
WALTER CANADAY JR. was the eldest. He was born in Guilford County on May 15, 1794. He
married Hannah Harden there on December 6, 1818. The family moved directly from the Center
Monthly Meeting in North Carolina to the new Springfield Monthly Meeting in Wayne County,
Indiana. He later moved to Iowa where he is buried.
And Walter Senior:
Walter Canaday
Walter was born on December 19, 1771. He married while in North Carolina. His wife was Ann
or Nancy Anne Hussey. I don't know when they were married. There is a notation in the
New Garden minutes that on September 27, 1797, Walter was disciplined, perhaps as a result
of marrying out of unity. I do not know.
There were other Husseys in the Canaday line. The family was originally French and then
went to England with the Norman invasion. They settled in Surry, came to Massachusetts in
1632 and then went to the new Quaker colony on Nantucket. From there members of the family
went to the Quaker colony in New Garden, Guilford County, North Carolina where the Canaday
Family was. It was probably in North Carolina where Walter and Annie were married.
A lot of what I have on this family comes from a 1915 book by Walter Williams, History of
Northwest Missouri, Vol. III. They then moved to Alabama briefly. The article simply
states that Walter Canaday and his wife, Annie Hussey Canaday, were in Alabama when their
son, John Canaday, was born in 1801.
On November 26, 1803, he was granted a certificate (not including any family) to move to
the Lost Creek Meeting in Jefferson County, Tennessee.
Walter was received in the Lost Creek meeting on July 28, 1804. On January 25, 1806, Ann
Canaday was received. I assume this was his spouse as there were no other Anns around at
the time. There are several other mentions of Ann, so I assume this was the name she used.
On March 29, 1806 there is a record of Mary, John and Nathan Canaday being received upon
request of their father Walter Canaday.
The next mention I find of him is when he arrived in Highland County, Ohio and began
attending the Fall Creek Monthly Meeting there. Fall Creek was a 'spin-off' of the
Miami Monthly Meeting in Warren County. There are records of a Walter Canaday there as
early as 1807. Walter is listed as being an early member when it was established July 18,
1807.
On February 28, 1807 Anne and her daughter Mary were granted certificates to go to the
Miami Monthly Meeting in southwestern Ohio. On March 28, Walter and family were granted
certificates at the men's meeting. The family moved to Ohio and in 1807 there is a
record of Walter Canaday and Nancy Canaday being received in the Miami Meeting. I guess
she used both the name Nancy and Ann at various times. Also in 1807 the Fairfield Monthly
Meeting was established in Highland County, Ohio near the town of Leesburg. Walter Canaday
is listed as being one of the very early members there.
In 1821, Walter and his family transferred to the Center Meeting also in Ohio, and
remained there until about 1829. Family records appear through out the middle 1820s in
various Ohio meeting minutes such as Center, Fall Creek and other off-shoots of the Miami
Monthly Meeting.
In 1829, several of the children moved to Indiana, but it appears Walter and Nancy Ann
remained with the Fall Creek Meeting in Highland County, Ohio. In July of 1838, most of
the children transferred to the Vermilion (Illinois) Monthly Meeting. Vermilion was just
across the border from Indiana, so they may have remained in Indiana while going to church
in Illinois. I do not know. In the early 1840s, some children including Riley moved to the
Salem Monthly Meeting in Iowa.
There is a record on May 22, 1844 in the Fall Creek Minutes indicating Walter and wife
were granted certificates to go to the new Salem Monthly Meeting in Iowa. Walter died
March 19, 1846 and is buried in the Moorman Cemetery in Jefferson County Iowa. Ann is also
buried there.
The Missouri History mentioned earlier, states that Walter, Ann and the two children they
had at the time, Mary and John, traveled by two-wheel cart to Ohio. This History then
states that other children: Nathan and Christopher were born there in Highland County.
According to the minutes of the Fall Creek meeting, there may have been three more
children, Anna, Margaret and Henry. On the other hand only Henry is specifically called a
son of Walter and Ann Canaday.
more on my web site,
www.BillPutman.com under genealogy > Canaday > Charles
Canaday
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