Surnames: COLBERT KANADY Submitter: Karen Kanady Miller (kkmwin@advancenet.net) Date: 10 Sep 2002 I made a previous inquiry about Nancy J. COLBERT KANADY. I have checked cemetery records and found she was the second wife of Garland KANADY, not Johnson KANADY as was reported elsewhere on the Gallatin County history website.

Karen -- It appears that your concern is with the 1905 biographical sketch of James T. Colbert which is made available by Jon Musgrave on the Gallatin County web site. It's a useful thing to be skeptical of the details in 19th century biographies, but I don't find anything substantially wrong with this one. John Johnson (commonly known as Johnson) Kanady (1804 - 1875) was one (the oldest) of four sons of Moses Kanady who all migrated to Gallatin County from Kentucky in the 1820s and 1830s. He married Mary Sherwood, b. 1804, (another family migrating in from Kentucky) in 1827, and they had nine children before Mary died in 1859. In December 1863 in Saline County J. J. Kannedy married Mrs Nancy Jane Pierson (abt 1821 - abt 1896). In 1839 in Gallatin County Nancy Jane Colbert had married Robert Person (sic). The biography had it as Pinson. As far as I know, John Johnson and Nancy Jane had no children. John Johnson and Mary Sherwood Kanady are buried in Kanady Cemetery near Junction. The burial site for Nancy Jane, who died 20+ years after J. J. is not known to me. To explain your concern -- The oldest child of J. J. Kanady and Mary Sherwood was named Moses (1828 - 1914) (after his grandfather [both of them]), who married Elizabeth Ann Bramlet Seaton in 1849; and their seventh child was named Johnson Kanady (1863 - 1950) (after his grandfather) who married Gertrude Spivey in 1893 (your grandparents). Now, about Garland (1835 - 1890) -- he was the nephew of J. J. Kanady, the son of J. J.'s brother Lewis. His first (!) wife was Nancy J. Smith (1842 - 1875), daughter of Peter and Sarah (Bell) Smith. Nancy died as a consequence of childbirth in 1875 and is buried in Jackson Cemetery in Ridgway. Garland Kanady then married Mary Josephine Hanna in 1877. For whatever reason, Nancy J. as a name had uncommon attraction for Kanady boys in the 1800s -- there are five in Gallatin County (Colbert, Smith, Bruce, Crawford and Moreland) plus Nancy A. Hargett. Lory Holm in Vermont > Surnames: COLBERT KANADY > Submitter: Karen Kanady Miller (kkmwin@advancenet.net) > Date: 10 Sep 2002 > > I made a previous inquiry about Nancy J. COLBERT KANADY. I have checked cemetery records and found she was the second wife of Garland KANADY, not Johnson KANADY as was reported elsewhere on the Gallatin County history website.