Elias Cady

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    Elias Cady (1759-1853) served in the Rhode Island Militia as a private in Co. C, 2nd Regiment in Captains Blue and Morey's Company and Colonel Elisha Morey's Regiment. Elias Cady was born in Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island on September 7, 1759. He was married to Olive Baker and they had six children, two sons and four daughters. He moved to Holly, Michigan in 1838 Elias Cady died March 31, 1853, in Holly, Michigan and was buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Holly Township, Oakland County, Michigan. SAR Patriot Number P-127108 DAR Patriot Number A018075 Find-A-Grave Number 17237241

    From the History of Oakland County, Michigan by Thaddeus D. Seeley (1912)

    Elias Cady, son of Benajar Cady, was born in Providence, R. I., September 7, 1756. During the first year of the war the boy took his musket and went to Boston where he was enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and served till its close. He spent the winter at Valley Forge with Washington, and one night he and the general went on a reconnoitering expedition, returning at the break of day with sufficient information to make the American army better prepared to meet the enemy when it came. At the end of the war he was married in a church at Providence, Rhode Island, to Olive Baker. Six children were born to them—Seth B., Rhoda, Mary, Sarah, Philinda and Elias. They moved to Utica, N. Y., where she died, and in 1838 he came with his son, Seth B., to Holly, Michigan. On March 31, 1853, he died at the home of this same son at Genesee and was buried in Oak Hill cemetery, two miles northwest of Holly, Michigan. He was a pensioner.

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