James Samuel Cady

CADY BROWN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 4/12/2010 at 18:26:10

Woodbury County History 1984

Cady Family
By Leona Glover Davis

James Samuel Cady, son of Alpheus and Henriette Cady, grew up in Woodbury County, Iowa. He married Tillie Irene Brown. Tillie was born March 7, 1876. They belonged to the Methodist Church and lived near Climbing Hill, Iowa. James was a farmer. Their children: Florence Marie Cady was born October 12, 1897, at Climbing Hill and grew up there. She married Michael Smith, later married Arthur Karl burg, moved to Nebraska and several children: Edna Murriel Cady was born June 27, 1899, at Climbing Hill and grew up there. She married John E Williams. They live in Sioux City for many years. They had no children. He was a street car conductor. Later they moved to western Nebraska where they both passed away; Alice Edith Cady was born September 17, 1901, at Climbing Hill and grew up there. She married Victory Wyant. They had several children before moving to California; Gerald Leslie Cady, born July 3, 1904, at Climbing Hill, grew up there and married Velma Barr. They had several children and later moved to California.

All of James Cady’s children have passed away except Alice.

Zellah Melissa Cady, daughter of Alpheus and Henriette Cady, was born November 6, 1865, at Brookfield, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, and was a member of the Methodist Church of Sloan, Iowa. She came to Woodbury County with her parents when she was four months old. When nine years old, she moved with her parents back to Pennsylvania and lived there six years. At the age of fifteen, they returned to Woodbury County where she lived until she passed away May 31, 1939. She married James Foster Lamb, March 18, 1834, in Centre County, Pennsylvania. He later moved to Plumer, Venago County, Pennsylvania from where he enlisted for the Civil War on August 15, 1862. He served three years in Company I, 142nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers and was mustered out May 20, 1865. HE was in the battle of Gettysburg and also the March to the James River near Petersburg. He was in and out of the Carver Hospital at Washington, DC several difference times and was mustered out from there.

He came to Sloan, Iowa, in 1866, where he built a small home in Sloan and farmed some land near Sloan. In 1895, he became seriously ill and went blind. He was taken to the Old Soldiers Home at Marshalltown, Iowa, where he passed away April 5, 1904. Zellah worked hard to make a living for herself and her three children by washing clothes on the board and cleaning other people’s houses.

To this union were born the following children: Foster Milo Lamb, born November 5, 1887, at Sloan, Iowa. He married Alpha Higgins of Sloan on May 26, 1912. Rosa May Lamb, born December 9, 1889, at Sloan, Iowa. She married Walter Wallace Glover on February 13, 1907.

Daniel Clinton (called Clinton) Lamb, born February 28, 1892, at Sloan, Iowa. He married Irma A Hanson on March 1, 1913. She was the daughter of Joseph and Frances Hanson of Hornick, Iowa. Irma had been born August 3, 1892, in Athens County, Ohio, and came with her parents to Woodbury County at the age of ten years. Clinton and Irma lived on various farms near Sloan for many years, residing at Mapleton a short time before moving to Missoula, Montana, about 1940 for his health. They had three children: Lela May Lamb, born July 31, 1914, at Sloan; James Hanson Lamb, born August 16, 1918, at Sloan; and Irma Eileen (called Eileen) Lamb, born January 8, 1932, at Ticonic, Iowa.

Lela May married Milburn Parker on July 14, 1940, at Mapleton, Iowa. They moved to Montana about 1941. They adopted a son, Gary Douglas Parker, born April 6, 1949.

James never married.

Eileen married Charles L Bailey, October 18, 1958, at Missoula, Montana. They are the parents of two girls: Janet and Julie.