Russell Cardey Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Potosi, Biographical Sketches, Page 939

RUSSELL CARDEY, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Potosi; born in Tioga Co., N. Y., May 
8,1817; son of John and Jane C. (Stephenson) Cardey; came to Galena, Ill., in 
1839, and three years after to this place; owns 100 acres of land.  He was 
married, Aug. 25, 1842, at Hamburg, Erie Co., N. Y., by William Hamilton, to 
Mercy A, daughter of Aaron and Jane (Slater) Hampton, who was born July 16, 
1813, in New Jersey.  Their children are George W., who married Regina Roesch, 
and has four children - Clara, Laura, Albert and Herbert; Helen J. married 
Philip Roesch, and has four children - William R., Ida, Ella and Roy.  Mr. 
Cardey is a Republican and Methodist, and was in the patriot war.  When he 
settled here, his nearest neighbor was one mile, and the next seven miles away.  
He also states that a bear drove his pigs from the pen, and he shot three rifle 
balls (using a shot gun) into the brute, and the next morning found him and took 
him home.