Individual Details

Ann TINDER

(1812 - Abt 1872)



NOTE:
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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Events

Birth1812Culpeper, Culpeper, Virginia, United States
Marriage17 Apr 1834Orange County, Virginia, United States - James David CANADAY Sr.
DeathAbt 1872Illinois
Family Search ID NumberLZTD-1NX

Families

SpouseJames David CANADAY Sr. (1799 - 1882)
ChildFerdinand M. CANADAY (1848 - 1916)
ChildAnn Catherine CANADAY (1836 - 1901)
ChildJames Daniel CANADAY Jr. (1839 - 1917)
ChildThomas G. CANADAY (1841 - )
ChildAdolphus CANADAY (1843 - )
ChildCaroline F. CANADAY (1844 - 1929)
ChildElizabeth Diana "Betty" CANADAY (1844 - 1889)
ChildSarah CANADAY (1835 - )
ChildAlice Robinson CANADAY (1849 - 1926)
ChildSilas Melville CANADAY Sr. (1851 - 1920)
ChildEdna CANADAY ( - )
ChildAllen CANADAY (1856 - 1939)
FatherAnthony TINDER (1770 - 1848)
MotherLucy ROBINSON (1779 - 1885)
SiblingJames Robert TINDER (1798 - 1879)
SiblingPriscilla TINDER (1801 - 1856)
SiblingJohn A. TINDER Sr. (1803 - 1851)
SiblingThomas TINDER (1803 - 1881)
SiblingAnthony M. TINDER (1805 - 1843)
SiblingRobinson Chapman TINDER (1807 - 1854)
SiblingGeorge Washington TINDER Sr. (1809 - 1885)
SiblingCatherine TINDER (1814 - 1861)
SiblingRichard TINDER (1819 - 1877)
SiblingEliza Jane TINDER (1820 - 1865)

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