Elias Cady PVT - Oak Hill Cemetery - Holly, MI - American Revolutionary War Veteran Graves on Waymarking.com

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ELIAS CADY SOCIETY-Children of the American Revolution
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During the first year of the Revolutionary War the boy took his musket and went to Boston, where he enlisted as a soldier and served as a member of George Washington’s guard until the close of the war. He spent the winter at Valley Forge with Washington. He related that one night he accompanied General Washington on a reconnoitering expedition, returning at the break of day with information which enabled the army to make preparation to meet the enemy.

At the end of the war he was married in a church in Providence, Rhode Island, to Olive Baker. Six children were born to them, Seth B., Rhoda, Mary, Sarah, Philinda and Elias.

They moved to Utica, New York, where she died in 1838. He came with his son, Seth B., to Holly, Michigan, March 31, 1853. He died at the home of this same son at Genesee County and was buried in Oak Hill cemetery, two miles northwest of Holly. He was a pensioner.

Location type: Single Grave Date of Birth: SEPTEMBER 7, 1756 Date of Death: MARCH 31, 1853 Cause of death: Died Later Grave Marker Text: ELIAS CADY MICHIGAN PVT CO C 2 BN RI MILITIA REV WAR SEPTEMBER 7, 1756 MARCH 31, 1853 Ranks: Private

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