BIOS: Mrs. Mary L. Cady, Mason Co., KY

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Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A. & U. P.
James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968. Mason County.

The Poets and Poetry of Kentucky, page 594.

MRS. MARY L. CADY, Nee Mitchell, is a native of Kentucky, born at Maysville, whither
her great-grandfather, Jacob Boone (a favorite cousin of the distinguished pioneer,
Daniel Boone) immigrated and settled in 1786; was liberally educated; developed at 15
a love for poetry, and at that age wrote several pieces with marked poetic taste; has
contributed short poems to the Louisville Journal, Willis' Home Journal, Saturday
Evening Post, and to the  papers of her native city, Maysville Eagle and Maysville
Bulletin. About 1854, she was married to Jarvis G. Cady; in 1873-4, was a resident of
Covington, Ky. [Note: Poems shown: "Immortal" and "The Fabric Of Life."