This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cady, Oyer, Hunt, Beebe, French, Berry Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VRB.2ACE/1789 Message Board Post: SOURCE: History of the Original Town of Concord being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins and Sardinia, Erie County, New York By Erasmus Briggs Picton Press, Camden, Maine (originally printed Rochester, NY, 1883) Every Name Index by June Partridge Zintz, June 1992 Ebenezer S. Cady, Statement. Ebenezer S. CADY was born in the town of Chatham, Columbia county, N.Y. Came to the village of Springville in 1858; is a carpenter and joiner; was married at Schuyler, Herkimer county, N.Y. in 1840, to Miss Mary OYER, who was born in 1817 at Schuyler, Herkimer county, N.Y. My father, Arnold CADY was born at Chatham, Columbia county, and served as volunteer of marines in defence of the New York harbor in the war of 1812. My mother’s maiden name was Sarah HUNT. She was born in Washington, VT. Grandfather’s name was Ebenezer CADY; he was a Captain in the war of the Revolution. Grandmother’s maiden name was Chloe BEEBE. She was born in Connecticut. The house my grandfather built in Chatham in 1761 and ’62 was built of pine timber, was taken down in 1824 and the timber was used in building the Presbyterian meeting house in the village of Spencertown, Columbia county, N.Y. In this house my grandfather’s two sons and vie daughters we! re born. The outside doors were made of pine boards, two thicknesses, cut into horizontally about half-way of their height, and at night barred on the inside with a stick. On the farm was an oak grove where the people assembled on the Sabbath to worship (they were Presbyterians), until they built a church on his farm, the first church in Chatham. This building was moved to Chatham four corners, a distance of one and one-half miles. The building was put on runners and under the runners small sticks were placed for rollers, and many ox teams were hitched to each of the runners and in that way the building was drawn to the spot and for many years the followers of the lowly Nazarene met at this humble church and offered their devotions to the God of Abraham, till finally later generations have sold the old church for a sheepfold, and build another church exhibiting more pride than piety. They had six children: Lucy A., born in 1840 and died in 1872. Sarah J., born in 1844; married Newela FRENCH. Maryette, born in 1847 and died in 1850. Cassius M., born in 1850 and died in 1871. Ellen G., born in 1853; married Gardner BERRY. William S., born in 1856 and lives in Kalkaska, Mich.