1. RILEY1 CANADAY was born May 23, 1819 in Wayne County, Indiana1, and died July 24, 1869 in Weeping Water, Nebraska2. He married (1) MARTHA LEWIS December 11, 1839 in Vermillion County, Illinois3. She was born October 11, 18223, and died June 09, 1846 in Keokuk County, Iowa. He married (2) MARGARET ANN WOODWARD September 09, 1847 in Richland, Keokuk County, Iowa4. She was born October 28, 1824 in Morgan County, Indiana5, and died April 09, 1907 in Weeping Water, Nebraska5.

Notes for RILEY CANADAY:
July 2, 1842 to Salem, Iowa

By covered wagon to Nebraska in 1857 and homesteaded

More About RILEY CANADAY:
Cause of Death: Typhoid fever
Certificate: July 02, 1842, Salem MM in Iowa
Occupation: 1850, Horticulturist6

Notes for MARGARET ANN WOODWARD:
Homestead Certificate #123 title to 153 acres of land Listed in Women of Nebraska Hall of Fame

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Her obituary reads:
Margaret Ann Woodward-Canaday was born Oct 28, 1824, of Quaker parents. She was one of a family of fifteen children. From this family only Henry Woodward, of Brookings, S.D. and Abram Woodward of Union, Iowa, still survive her.
When a young girl, she, with her parents, moved to Iowa, where at the age of 23 she was married to Riley Canaday. Soon after their marriage they came to Nebraska, being among the early pioneers of the state. Many a traveler has received shelter in their home when it consisted of a two-room log hut. But in 1869, Mrs. Canaday was left a widow with a large family to bring up amid the usual hardships of a new country. Brighter days came as the children grew up and relieved her of some of the care and responsibility by establishing homes of their own, but her son Henry's wife died nine years ago, leaving four children, the youngest a boy of fourteen months.
Having already filled more than the alloted life's measure of three score and ten years, full to the brim with loving service, grand-mother again took up the burden of a family and the last years of her life were devoted to these children.
The frail little body, often racked with pain, but controlled by a will and energy of extraordinary power, never rested so long as those about her were in need of help. She did a work that few knew, for her days were spend in the obscurity of the home circle, but she was never so weary that she did not greet each homecomer with a smile and a cheery inquiry regarding his or her interests in the outer world, although a very unassuming woman, her gentle deeds, patient humility and wise loving counsel made her life an inspiration to all who knew it.
During her young womanhood she became a member of the Quaker church, and since leaving the Quaker settlement, she has joined no other church but has at all times taken an active interest in church work, her home being used for services in the early days when churches were few and far between. Since her health had been such that she could not attend service the ladies of the Mennonite church have frequently held afternoon prayer meetings at her home.
Her last illness lasted but two and one-half days, and it was believed she would recover until two hours before her death. The nurse noticed a decided change for the worse shortly before noon on Tuesday and all the immediate relatives were summoned, but only two grand-children and two children, Mrs. E.C. Giverson and Henry Canaday, were able to be at her bedside when the end came, and 1:20 p.m.
Mrs. A.E. Cooley and Mrs. E.G. Cooley arrived from Lincoln on the evening train. A son, Albert, who has lived in South Dakota for several years, visited his mother about two months ago. Two step sons, Zimri and Allen, now living in western Nebraska, grew up under her care, loving and being loved as tenderly as her own.

"There is no death! Altho we grieve
When beautiful familiar forms,
That we have learned to love, are torn
From our embracing arms.
They are not dead, they have but passed
Beyond the mists that blind us here,
Into the new and larger life
Of that serener sphere."
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_____Card of Thanks.________
We shall always remember with gratitude the kindly deeds done
by neighbors and friends during our recent bereavement.

Henry Canaday and Family,
Mrs. E.C. Giberson,
A.B. Canaday,
Mrs. A.E. Cooley,
Mrs. E.G. Cooley.

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More About MARGARET ANN WOODWARD:
Residence: 1887, Avoca, Nebraska7

Children of RILEY CANADAY and MARTHA LEWIS are:
i. LEWIS2 CANADY, b. September 30, 1840, Keokuk County, Iowa; d. November 07, 1841, Keokuk County, Iowa.
ii. ZIMRI LEWIS CANADY, b. December 24, 1842, Iowa8; d. May 21, 1921, Crawford, Dawes County, Nebraska; m. MARY ELIZABETH HUNTER, July 08, 1874, Cass County, Nebraska; b. July 10, 1856, Illinois9; d. November 30, 1926, Crawford, Nebraska9.
iii. ALLAN CANADY, b. March 26, 1845, Iowa; d. January 07, 1920, Mansfield, Wright County, Missouri; m. LOUISA JANE CLARK.

Children of RILEY CANADAY and MARGARET WOODWARD are:
iv. CHARLES HARTWELL2 CANADY, b. June 13, 1848, Iowa10; d. March 08, 1865, Cass County, Nebraska.
v. HARVEY DERBYSHIRE CANADY, b. July 15, 1850; d. November 16, 1857.
vi. VIRTUE ANNA CANADY, b. April 24, 1852; d. July 13, 1853.
vii. ALBERT B. CANADY, b. January 17, 1854; d. May 19, 1938, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha Co, South Dakota.
viii. ALPHA ELMINA CANADY, b. April 16, 1857, Nebraska City, Nebraska; d. August 06, 1938, California.
ix. PLEASANT HENRY CANADY, b. October 27, 1859, Nebraska City, Nebraska11.

1. Willard Heiss, Editor, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol VII, Part 5, (Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, 1974), 410.
2. Charles C. Thornburg III, A Discourse on the Thornburgs of England, Ireland, and America, (1979), 378.
3. Willard Heiss, Editor, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol VII, Part 5, (Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, 1974), 410.
4. Charles C. Thornburg III, A Discourse on the Thornburgs of England, Ireland, and America, (1979), 378.
5. Charles C. Thornburg III, A Discourse on the Thornburgs of England, Ireland, and America, (1979), 379.
6. 1850 US Census, Keokuk County, Iowa, Household 35, Richland Township.
7. Unknown, handwritten manuscript, "Smith Family Reunion, 1887," 1887.
8. 1850 US Census, Keokuk County, Iowa, Household 35.
9. Charles C. Thornburg III, A Discourse on the Thornburgs of England, Ireland, and America, (1979), 379.
10. 1850 US Census, Keokuk County, Iowa, Household 35.
11. Charles C. Thornburg III, A Discourse on the Thornburgs of England, Ireland, and America, (1979), 378.