OBITUARY: Dolly (Nudd) Cady, 1807-1906, Mitchell Co. Iowa



                           Mrs. Abner Cady
                              1807-1906

Dolly Nudd was born in Skanada, Maine, December 13th, 1807, and died at
Mitchell, Iowa, February 18th, 1906, aged 98 years, 2 months, 13 days.
She moved to Troopsburg, Steubin County, New York, in childhood.  She
married Abner T. Cady, December the 14th, 1826, moved to Ripley county,
Indiana, in 1834.  Eleven years afterward she moved to Dane county,
Wisconsin and to Mitchell, Iowa, in 1854, thence to Pleasanton, Kansas
in 1857, where her husband departed this life in 1858.

She returned to Mitchell in June, 1905.  She was the mother of twelve
children, nine sons and three daughters.  She was the grandmother of
thirty-nine, the great-grandmother of fifty, and the great-great-grandmother
of three.  In all she had one hundred and nine descendents.

She was converted in early life and joined the Methodist church and ever
remained a consistent member of the same.  She leaves eight children to
rejoice in the heritage of her godly example, four having passed on
before, who will doubtless greet her in her Heavenly home.


Osage News
February 1906

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Transcribed by Kathy Pike
September 2, 2003 

Copyright 2003, Kathy McAlister Pike