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Saving Graves says this cemetery has 200 people buried here. I found maybe 50 stones and all  that are legible are listed below. It's in such sad shape, it confirms WHY I do what I do....soon none of these stones will be here but I will do my best to preserve them in photos before they are gone. If anyone has a list of who should be here, please contact me! 

"The village of Cady, or Cady's Corner, was a small settlement composed chiefly of German farmers and their families, dating from 1834. It is on Clinton River , in the center of a rich agricultural region, about seventeen miles above Detroit , five southwest of Mt. Clemens , the county seat, and near Fraser Station, on the Grand Trunk Railway, to which depot goods should be shipped. It has a German Lutheran Church and common school."  

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John Millar, was born in Scotland about 1760 and emigrated to the  Rochester area of Monroe County, NY where all of his children were born and then moved his family to Macomb County, MI in the 1820s.  He was married to Mary Hanna, who was probably also from Scotland.  He died in Macomb, MI 17 April 1837 and is buried in the Millar Cady Corners Cemetery in Clinton township, Macomb Co., MI.  The Millar family donated an acre of farmland, long used as a family burial ground, to the local township as a cemetery in the 1880s. 

Per government land records, he purchased land in Macomb in 1826 while still a resident of Monroe county, NY.  John and Mary Millar had ten children:

 
Jane Millar Ober

From "The History of Macomb" pub. 1882, p566. Clinton Section:

Dykes Millar, son of John, of Scotland  was born in Monroe Co, NY 12 Mar 1806 and came with his father to Macomb in 1831.  They located land on Sec 19, Clinton, on the south bank of the  river.  He encountered all the obstacles of the pioneer.  He built a log house in 1832, the walls of which are still standing ( in 1882).  In Jan, 1833, he married Miss Emma Harvey to whom 4 children were born, 3 are still living in 1882: John, James, Robert and daughter, Belle who died at age 24.  Mr. Millar was a major on General Stockton’s staff during the Toledo war and more recently has filled the quieter offices of Notary public and Highway commissioner. 

Robert, son of Dykes, was born 16 Aug 1842, Clinton, Macomb, MI.  He married Mary Shanley 22 Feb 1865 (dau of Shanley) and they had 9 children, among them were Emma, Edward, Mattie, Florence, Robert and Mary.
He was school director for several years.

Mt. Clemens Monitor, Mar 31, 1911
James Millar, died at his home near Cady’s Corners, in Clinton, Wednesday, aged 69 years. Mr. Millar was a son of the late Dykes Millar and was born on the farm where he died. He leaves two sons, Bert and George.

Mt. Clemens Monitor, Aug 28, 1914
Robert Emmet Millar passed from his earthly home August 20th, after a protracted sickness, aged 72 years. He was confined to bed several weeks previous to death and suffered greatly, but bore all patiently.

He was the youngest son of Dykes Millar, was born on the old Millar farm, Cady, Macomb county, August 16th, 1842, and was a life-long resident of this county. February 22nd, 1865, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Shanley, of Detroit, and she, with their four remaining children, three daughters and a son, and seventeen grandchildren are left to mourn the loss of a kind and giving husband, father, and grandfather. The daughters are: Mrs. Albert Russo, of Birmingham, Mich., Mrs. F.B. Stevens, (who with her husband lives on the old homestead), and Mrs. Perry R. Upton, of Detroit. The son is Edward Millar, of Disco.

Not alone in his family will his loss be felt, but also by a host of friends, young and old, who have spent many a happy hour in his hospitable home. He was a life-long Republican. He served his township two terms as clerk, and was school director 21 years. Internment was in Clinton Grove cemetery.

The Macomb Daily, March 19, 1984
Richard Harvey Millar
Mount Clemens – Richard Harvey Millar, DDS, 81, died Saturday in the Clinton-Aire Nursing Center, Clinton Township. Dr. Millar, born in Mount Clemens was the son of prominent Clinton Township landowners for whom Millar Road was named. He was a graduate of Mount Clemens High School and the Ohio State University School of Dentistry, practicing in the area for 51 years before his retirement in 1978.

Charter member and first president of the Macomb County Dental Society, he also belonged to the Mount Clemens Lions Club, of which he was president in 1937.

Other memberships and distinctions were: secretary, treasurer, director and past zone chairman of District 11-A-2; former member of the Mount Clemens city Commission; life member of the Old Crowd; member of the Macomb County Historical Society; member and former vice-president of the board of directors of the Clinton Grove cemetery. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II.

He is survived by his wife, Edith; sons, William H. Millar, DDS of Petoskey and James Ellis Millar of Dallas, Texas; brother Leonard Millar; and three grandchildren.

Probate file 3468, roll 65
William H Millar of Sterling Twp d 26 May 1898 in testate. Will dated 13 Jan 1886. The petition stated that his heirs at law were Henry Harrington nephew, Eliza Donaldson niece of Mt Clemens, L M Sackett nephew age 67 of Mt Clemens, Francis Campbell niece age 69 of Mt Clemens, Martha Traver niece 61 of Grand Ledge, James L Sackett grandnephew age abt 42 of Monroe Co NY; Jefferson M Ober nephew 48 of Utica; Mary Ober niece 52 of Utica; Laura M Stead niece age 56 of Maple Rapids Mich., John D Millar nephew age 61 of Davenport Iowa; James Millar, nephew about 58 of Cady Mich., and Robert E Millar nephew age 55 of Cady Mich.