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The following was contributed by Ann's great granddaughter Alma Webb Pleasants:

EXPERIENCE OF WAR IN 1863

On a cold day in November Grandmother Ann Tinder Canaday was upstairs weaving. She happened to look out of the window and saw the field full of blue coated soldiers. Quickly she ran to warn the family and to get uncle Alex to hide the horses and cows. He was her only help, a widow with seven children at home as her sons were all in the Confederate Army. Her husband had died before the war started. Very soon soldiers came riding up to the yard, one introduced himself as Col. Meade of the northern army. Col. Meade asked if he might have the use of a room for a few days, and he would see that no harm come to her or her family. Later in the afternoon Col. Meade sent for Grandmother Ann and told her to take the family upstairs to bed, and he would put a guard at the upstairs door. In the early hours of the next day he sent for her again and asked if there was a place she could go, that there would be fighting there that day. Uncle Alex hitched the team to the wagon, they put all the heavy clothes they could, piling the feather beds on quilts. They went to her daughter's home in the wilderness ( Catherine Ann's ) who had two small children, and her husband was in the war. Dawn was just breaking, and as they passed Mrs Sheets home they could hear roosters crowing-- she had taken her chickens in the upstairs of the house to save them. Grandmother said they all had a big laugh. Col. Meade sent several guard with them thru his lines with a promise that they would not tell his position. When the shooting ceased they came back home to find their cows and chickens gone, but their home had been spared. Grandmother lived on at the home place until the children were gone. The carpetbaggers and taxes had about gotten all she had. She divided what was left with her faithful slave and went to Illinois to live with her children.
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Birth	1812	Culpeper, Culpeper, Virginia, United States
Marriage	17 Apr 1834	Orange County, Virginia, United States - James David CANADAY Sr.
Death	Abt 1872	Illinois
Family Search ID Number	LZTD-1NX

Spouse	James David CANADAY Sr. (1799 - 1882)
Child	Ferdinand M. CANADAY (1848 - 1916)
Child	Ann Catherine CANADAY (1836 - 1901)
Child	James Daniel CANADAY Jr. (1839 - 1917)
Child	Thomas G. CANADAY (1841 - )
Child	Adolphus CANADAY (1843 - )
Child	Caroline F. CANADAY (1844 - 1929)
Child	Elizabeth Diana "Betty" CANADAY (1844 - 1889)
Child	Sarah CANADAY (1835 - )
Child	Alice Robinson CANADAY (1849 - 1926)
Child	Silas Melville CANADAY Sr. (1851 - 1920)
Child	Edna CANADAY ( - )
Child	Allen CANADAY (1856 - 1939)

Father	Anthony TINDER (1770 - 1848)
Mother	Lucy ROBINSON (1779 - 1885)
Sibling	James Robert TINDER (1798 - 1879)
Sibling	Priscilla TINDER (1801 - 1856)
Sibling	John A. TINDER Sr. (1803 - 1851)
Sibling	Thomas TINDER (1803 - 1881)
Sibling	Anthony M. TINDER (1805 - 1843)
Sibling	Robinson Chapman TINDER (1807 - 1854)
Sibling	George Washington TINDER Sr. (1809 - 1885)
Sibling	Catherine TINDER (1814 - 1861)
Sibling	Richard TINDER (1819 - 1877)
Sibling	Eliza Jane TINDER (1820 - 1865)

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