This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CGC.2ACI/688.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Daniel Cady Darrow died Jan 1, 1862, age 46. His wife was Isabella Murray 1816-Dec 21, 1894. Their children include Annabella 1842-1906 (m. J.A. Chamberlain); Seymour Finley 1844- March 1894, who served in Co. I of the 21st Wisconsin; Mary Hope 1845-1872 (named for Isabella's sister); and David Murray May 1848-July 1912 (named for Isabella's father). Their farm was about 1.5 miles northeast from Hial Cady's. If you use mapqust or mapblast, you can still find Darrow Road west of Neenah. It is part of a small subdivision along with Murray Road and Balfour Road (Isabella's sister Grace married the Balfour). If you printed the entire page of 1870 census for Julius and Sarah Morey, you will find Isabella Darrow and her family two dwellings above them. When most of the Murray family came out from Genesee County NY in the fall of 1847, son Duncan wrote a letter back to Uncle George and Aunt Jane. I have a photocopy. They stayed with the Cadys while thier cabin was being built. Duncan writes as if Uncle George and all knew who he meant by Cady. "Oshcosh is ten miles from Cady’s. So the next morning Sept 25th I started off on foot Mary & Eliza walked 6 milds with me & stoped at a Mr. Brooks & took diner. I got to Cadys a little after dinner & started James off with Cadys waggon for the rest of them." "I will commence at Oshcosh it is a little village situated on the lake at the couth of the Wolf River which is a beautiful stream nearly equal to the Hudson at Albany . You go nearly north to go to Cadys. The road is very good; it is openings along the road with very little timber so the country does not look as new as it realy is. There is more timber as you go toward Cadys; the soil clay mixed with gravel or sand ! ..." "All things considered Cady had the best situation as the lower end of his place being timber and the upper part being openings." "we will build one something like Cadys 25 by 15 feet it makes a very comfortable house. We live with Cadies have our own vitcals and things." The Murray group was father, mother, William, Duncan, David jr, Eliza and Mary--7 of them! Daniel and Isabella Darrow were already there, as were Grace and James Balfour. SO WHY STAY WITH THE CADYS, even if their cabin was largest?? There must be a connection! These folks were from Town of Pavilion, south of LeRoy in eastern Genesee County; not exactly next door to Steuben County. I have no further clues.