The account of Charles Lewis Cady, Jr, rescuer in the second Donner Party effort, cousin of Charles Cady of Montgomery and Oneida Counties in NY who was a brother of Stoddard Cady, can be found at _http://www.utahcrossroads.org/DonnerParty/Rescuers.htm_ (http://www.utahcrossroads.org/DonnerParty/Rescuers.htm) Charles L. Cady was born in Buffalo, New York, on 19 Sept 1824. James F. Reed refers to Cady, Nicholas Clark, and Charles Stone as "the boys"-- young, active men who arrived at the camps 24 hours before the other members of the relief. After the Donner disaster, Cady established a courier service to deliver mail between San Francisco and Sutter's Fort via Sonoma and Sausalito and in 1848-49 kept a store in Coloma in partnership with John Shannon. In the spring of 1879 Cady was in the Calistoga area and visited W. C. Graves, who sent information from Cady to historian C. F. McGlashan." He is said to have died in Oklahoma Territory in 1876. We have been able to identify Charles Lewis Cady, b. 19 Sept 1824, Buffalo, Erie, NY as the son of Charles Lewis Cady, Sr. and wife Sarah Unknown. Charles, Sr., b. 28 Jul 1791, Brookfield, Worcester, MA, son of Stoddard Brimfield, b 4 Feb 1752, Pomfret, Windham, CT and Abigail Marsh Cady. Stoddard, son of Ezekiel, Jr., b 25 Mar 1710, Pomfret, Windham, CT and Abigail Stoddard Cady, son of Ezekiel, Sr and Abigail Cady (1st cousins), he was the son of Daniel Cady, she daughter of James Cady, both sons of Nicholas and Judith Knapp Cady. Charles Lewis, Sr is noted in the 1830 Census of Buffalo, Erie Co., NY. Another anecdotal piece of information -- the Donner Trail runs through some property that was later part of a gold mine owned by an uncle of my children's father and is now part of the Rollins Reservoir. We never knew of the family connection from either side until a few years ago. **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004)