Died of milk sickness with his wife and 3 children Sources- Descendants of Nicholas Cady by Orrin Peer-Allen Marriage Record- Pg 75 Vot 11, Records of Cornish,N.H. Page 5 Vol 2 , Records, Windsor,V.T. History of Madison Co. Ohio Pg 650 - W.H. Beers Historical Collection of Ohio -Henry Howe LLD 1888 The story is that they were moving to Ohio. They took the eldest boy, Alba, ( by his first wife ) with them as well as the two babies by second wife. The middle aged children were probably with their aunt and uncle, the Chamberlains in New York State. This saved their lives. Mae Drew has death Oct 19,1820 Marriage record of marriage to Betsy Delano in Windsor, Vt. Marriage records Vol 32 Pg 5. In the 1820 census of Deer Creek Township, Madison Co. Ohio Thomas gave the household as 11 persons. This would have included the 4 children left in New York State. He probably was advised to list them as they were to follow when they were settled.. From Dr. Lee Cady: ----------------------------------------------------------------- FROM ODDS AND ENDS -HISTORY OF MADISON CO. OHIO BY MADISON CO. HISTORICAL SOCIETY-Conflict and Trials. Sickness and death in their various forms, were constant visitors to the early settlers. This flat, wet country was full of germs and miasma. But one of the most dreaded of the diseases of that day was THE TREMBLES OR MILK FEVER which carried off many of the first settlers Of those who died of the first sickness we mention William Adair and wife, Mrs Samuel Adair, Mrs Joseph Adair, Samuel Bowdry, Aaron Delano and five persons of the Cady family Gilman Lincoln, married to daughter by first marriage, Sally Cady and living nearby, acted as executor of his estate. Milk sickness only occurred in the fall of dry seasons. It would kill livestock but not a lactating cow but would kill her calf. It was later found that it was snakeroot. The animals did not like it and would not eat it unless there was a drought and a lack of good pasture. Lactating cows excreted it in the milk thus getting the poison from them but anything that drank the milk was poisoned.JAMA June 20, 1966 Vol. 196 No. 12 Pg 103-108. ----------------------------------------------------------------- A matter of interest, from Mormon history books, when the Mormons trailed from Kirkland, Ohio down to Independence, Missouri, they were told not to drink the milk in the Madison County area. This was in approximately 1830, ten years after the Cadys died. _________________________________________________________ Notes from History of Madison Co. Ohio - W.H.Beers 1883. Many of the first places to receive the dead of the early settlers were private burying grounds, some of these we will mention. On the Gwyenne estate , we learn, were one or two such burying places, where rest the remains of early pioneers, but now not a vestige remains to mark the hollowed spot, or to tell the passer-by that there underneath the sod rests all that remains of a noble sire. The confines are now all obliterated and stock roams at will over their graves and feed upon the green grass that grows above their sleeping forms. NOTE_The Cady family settled at Lawrenceville which was laid out by the Gywnne family. This would be the closest cemetery to where they lived. 27 of the 85 cemeteries of the township cannot be located today__ ________________________________________________________ From- Cady Genealogy-By James Cady printed by Gateway. - Page 403. Born 14 May 1771 in Cornish, N.H. and married ( 1 ) 5 Jan 1792 in Flainfield N.H. to Betsy Austin, born 6 Sept 1773 in Methuen, Essex Co.,Mass. the third child of John and Elizabeth ( Pettengill ) Austin. She died in Windsor, Windsor Co. Vt. on 9 Feb 1805. Thomas married ( 2 ) 19 Feb 1807 in Windsor to Betsy Delano born 6 July 1780 at Woodstock, Vt. the daughter of Amasa and Sarah ( Shaw ) Delano, The children from Henry to the youngest were from Betsy. Thomas and his wife, Betsy, son Alba, and two daughters, Polly and Harriet by Betsy, all died in October through December, 1820 from milk sickness. He died 27 Oct. 1820 in Madison Co. Ohio. ----------------------------------------------------------------- I wrote the Genealogy Society in Madison Co. and they wrote back requesting the names of the Cady family that died. They just knew that 5 died. As Mrs Cady was a Delano and an Aaron Delano also died at the same time, I have tried in vain to get information as to what relation he may have been to Betsy. I have about 300 pages on the Delano lines and there were many in south eastern Ohio, in Washington Co. on the Ohio River. of the Mayflower Delano line. I have found no proof of a connection. ----------------------------------------------------------------- From Ohio Cemeteries compiled by the Ohio State Genealogy Society- Editor Maxine Smith Madison County- Gwynn- Upper Gwynne On west side of State Route 38, 0.6 mile north of old US 40- No trace left by 1881 _____________________________________________