Married Flo Webley. I visited her several times when they lived in Bellvue, Nebraska. Also I visited her when she was a widow and very unhappy in the home of her son, Ezra. She died soon after. I remember her as a quiet, plain woman who stood and listened while her extrovert husband, Flo, visited with me. I was in the University of Nebraska at the time. Aunt Ruth Davis and my grandmother, Elizabeth Cady, lived with them for a year after granddad Cady died in 1914. Ruth Davis said that they were a very happy, carefree couple spending freely. He was a traveling salesman for John Deere Plow Co. Ezra did not get along with his parents and when his family came to the house once, he were not invited in. May was sort of a tramp and Rodger committed suicide after world war 1. He came home from the war and was jilted by his love. I visited her granddaughter in Des Moines, Iowa and got very little information.Source- Ruth Davis and Tom Cady ----------------------------------------------------------------- -Wm. A. Balcolm was made her guardian upon the death of her mother until 13 Dec. 1870 when her brother David was made her guardian. ---------------------------------------------------------------- From Ruth Davis- She was a very capable woman- a fine cook and and a splendid dressmaker. She made suits and coats. Mother and I lived with them for one year and they took the whole family to the theater every Sunday. Maybe a stock show. I still feel the thrill of seeing a real live show. ----------------------------------------------------------------- I found the graves of Ezra and wife in the Lacleded, Mo. Cemetery. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Letter from Amanda Webley to Alice Cady Moulder. I received a few lines from Mary ( Mary Cady Loomis ) today enclosing your letter . I am sending it to Lula and she will send it to David ( David Cady ). I am glad that your mother ( Elizabeth Wilcox Cady ) has so good a daughter to take care of her in her helplessness. ( she was blind ). You will never regret what you do for her though I know that it is not and has not been a light task. I think of you all often and and would be glad if there were something I could do that would really help. So often I have thought of sending your mother a snapshot or something and then comes the though what good would it do when she cannot see. Perhaps she might be interested in hearing about our trip this summer. We traded our old ford sedan in on a new Chevrolet coupe, a pretty French gray, with balloon tires, bumper ect. Then we packed our tent and army cots, dishes, camp stove, food ect. and drove 450 miles up to Minn. We first went to Lake Osakis and camped in the tourist park which is very pretty. We thought that it would be fine on the bank of the lake where we could go in bathing most any time, but it was so cold that we never went in once and the wind made the waves so high that it was too rough to enjoy rowing., so we pulled up and went down to Glenwood where Mertia Caley lives ( used to be Mertia Cady ) and camped in the park there on the bank of lake Minnewaski, which is even longer than it's name and quite pretty. We had some nice bathing here and caught some fish. We came home by the way of Sioux Falls and saw some fine scenery, visited a rock quarry where they make crushed rock and where there are miles of rock standing as if to make into a stone wall. It was 102 in the shade the day we came home and we had hard work to keep awake driving. We got home tired but did not have time to get rested till we went to the Des Moines fair. Had charge of an exhibit there and stayed two weeks then expected to come home but it began raining and it seemed to forget to stop. the roads in some places were impassable so we did not come home but kept on the gravel roads and worked towards home stopping at several places in a day. We were nearly a week on the road staying at hotels this time as we did not have our camping stuff. I was very glad to get home but have been very busy since as I canned a lot of fruit and had the house cleaning and extra washing ect. I do quite a lot of sewing for other people but have visions of getting our own work done before I begin anything for others but it was only a vision. They begin coming before I was half ready. I earned $135 last year and hope to do better this year. Of course I cannot do a great deal as I have found that I am not as young as I used to be. By the way, my friends made a party for me on my 64 th birthday, Oct 16th, 1862. They got me out of the way to a show and then came in and helped Ruth ( Lomax )get a fine dinner. there were about 15 people and we had a fine time...Webley had arranged that they should not bring presents. He got me 1/2 doz each of knives, forks, tea and tablespoons community plate. they have a 25 year guarantee so I am sure that I will never wear them out and Ruth got me a pretty foot stool that I had long wanted. Webley is on the road all the time and is doing very well. He had the back of the new car fixed to carry an electric washer which is one of the things that he sells. There is a nice cover over the machine just like the top of a car so the car looks as if it had a rather bad curvature of the spine. When he gets this machine introduced he can have the car put back as it was. He sold nearly $ 60,000 last year and hopes to do better this year as the territory has not been worked for several years before he took it. While in Des Moines we spent some time at May's ( May Lomax ) She is very pleasantly situated and has a very sweet boy. He is not above the average child in looks but is certainly the brightest child I ever knew, He knows everything that is said in his hearing as well as a ten year old child and only has to hear it once and he remembers it. When Webley went back there after we had been home a few weeks, he, Herbert, expected me to be with his grandfather- Where grandma is ? he will be two years old in a few days. May is pretty well but Herbert is as lively as a flee and keeps her tired all the time. when Ruth Lomax read your letter she said that I would like to see her children and I echo her wish. But you are mistaken about the brown Cady eyes. We all get our brown eyes from the Hollander ancestors, the Michael Family, mother's people. I used to think that her people were German but when Mary ( Mary Cady Loomis ) went to Oregon she saw some of our cousins and they say that they were Hollanders. The Cadys were fair haired and blue eyed, both my father and Uncle Henry and all the cousins I have seen except those who had brown eyed mothers. The Cadys came from England. Well this is about enough for this time. Love and best wishes to all. Aunt Amanda ---------------------------------------------------------------- The birth day is different than another records but the 16 th Oct. date was in her own handwriting ----------------------------------------------------------------- Following is a history of the Cady Family as she remembers. Sally Lincoln was a half sister of Thomas and Henry Cady. William Lincoln, her son, lived in Spring Prarie, Wisconsin, Elizabeth Cady Hoyt, Thomas and Henry Cady's sister, lived in Honey Creek, Wisconsin. " I know very little about the Cady family, my father, Thomas, I think was born in New York State, his parents and some of the family died when he was about seven years old. They died of MILK FEVER caused by cows eating a poisonous weed, a part of the family were not at home and so escaped. His sister,Sally, was older than the rest and I think was a half sister. I knew her as a dear old lady wearing a black lace cap. We called her Auntie Lincoln. She lived with her son William at Spring Prarie, Wisconsin. He had a cheese factory and sold his cheese in Milwalkee. He always brought a quantity of maple sugar when he returned from a trip to Milwaukee. He had two children, William and Ida. There was a sister, Elizabeth. She married Avery Hoyt. They lived in Honey Creek, Wisconsin. I never knew Uncle Avery as he died before I can remember. There were three children two girls and a boy. After father built a new house at Bloom Prarie, Wisc., the family occupied the old one for a year or more. Father crossed the PLAINS the same year that mother did. They met on the road, mother and some others were walking ahead of the wagons as was the custom of the times and they came to a man lying in the dust overcome with heat and thirst. Mother milked one of their cows and washed his face and gave him milk. I do not know how long after they reached Oregon that they were married. Father went to California at the time of the gold rush and made some money. When they started to go to Wisconsin from Oregon he had a large herd of Cattle which were driven to California. The family lived in California two years while he disposed of the cattle When they went he had $ 40,000 in gold and it was heavy and hard to take. Mother made two jackets of unbleached muslin double sewed and gold pieces between the cloth and she wore one and father wore the other. I remember seeing the jackets and could see where the money had been. As the railroad did not extend across the continent yet they went by steamship and crossed the isthmus going by boat to New York, then across to Wisconsin by Railroad. Father's brother, Henry Cady, lived in Rochester, Wisconsin, and we stayed there a short time till he bought the farm in Walworth Co. near Lake Geneva and he is buried in Geneva. After the Civil War he thought his first plan to build a house big enough for his whole family to live in was not good so he sold the beautiful place and went to Mo. and bought four farms near Linneus, Mo. He died before we started and mother hired two men to help us move with two wagons and a buggy and four hundred sheep. It took four weeks to drive as the sheep could not go rapidly. We slept in a tent and cooked out doors and moved from a 22 room house to a 2 room log shack. Mother, after some time, married one of the men, Adrion Balcom.
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From DIARY OF W.A.BALCOM May 4 1905 I met my stepdaughter Amande Webley ( was Cady ) whom I had not seen in 35 years.
















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