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Note: On 20 Aug 2004 at 9am EDT I sighted a headstone at the Village Cem - Alden, Erie County, New York, bearing the names of Morris W. CADY and
his first wife Elizabeth. The stone says that Morris died 17 Mar, 1873, aged
81 yrs and his wife Elizabeth died 20 Oct 1837 aged 39 yrs.
Signed Joshua-Andrew Ward
!On 20 Aug 2004 at 9am EDT, I sighted a headstone at the Cemetery in the Village of Alden,
Erie County, New York, bearing the names of Morris W. CADY and his first wife Elizabeth. The
stone says that Morris died 17 Mar 1873, aged 81 yrs and his wife Elizabeth died 20 Oct 1837
aged 39 yrs. Signed; Joshua-Andrew Ward
A census search of Morris W. Cady has turned up some surprising facts. Morris, whom in the
past, I thought was very good at escaping the census enumerator has changed my mind. I
now put some of the onus on the census enumerator. Morris was a hard working farmer for
most of his life, so on the day the census enumerator came around, like most days was out
in his fields working and owing to the fact that, according to the 1840 and 1850 census the Cady farm was one of the last in Erie County. The years the Cady family was missed, the
enumerator must have not looked very far.
Early in this note I used the term 'surprising facts'. What I found 'surprising' in the 1840
census was it was taken three years after the death of Elizabeth Thomas Cady, Morris' first
wife, and it shows an adult male aged forty to fifty, Morris, two non-adult males, one
between ten and fifteen, probably George, and one between five and ten, this was Oscar
(proof in later census), and one adult female between thirty and forty, his second wife
Olivet and two non-adult females, one between fifteen and twenty, Morris daughter Helen,
and one between ten and fifteen, most likely a daughter from Olivet's first marriage called,
Marrette.
In the 1850 census, taken on 31 July 1850 there is Morris aged 56, Olivet aged 49, Octavia,
(born since the last census) aged seven and Oscar aged fifteen. With Oscar being fifteen at
the time of the 1850 census, he would have been five at the time of the 1840 census and
most likely the non-adult male between five and ten.
The 1860 census, taken on 11 Sept 1860, shows Morris aged 67, Olivet aged 60 and Octavia
aged 18. I have as yet not found any later census information the Cadys. Morris Cady died on
06 May 1792, so would not be in any later censuses. If I find any more census information
about his wife or children it will be here.
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