William Cordrey

    William Cordrey, ice dealer in West Madison, was born near Lexington, Kentucky, February 11, 1828, the son of John and Malinda (Johnson) Cordrey,. The father was a native of Maryland, the mother of Kentucky. His father settled on the hill near Madison, Indiana, in 1828, on a farm afterward opened in the grocery business, and continued in that for about ten years. He died in 1889, seventy-five years old.

    Mr. William Cordrey was reared in Madison, has farmed and followed carpentering; engaged also in the grocery business, and boated on the river. The last fifteen years of his life he ahs been in the ice business. He started in life a poor boy, and by his pluck, honesty and perseverance has made for himself a good living. He has a comfortable home in West Madison, and owns twenty acres of land adjoining the city of Madison, and considerable real estate in West Madison. He is a good citizen, a member of the Trinity M. E. of many years standing, and a leading man in his church. In the year 1849 he was married to Miss Vashti Smith, a native of Bartholomew County, Indiana. They have had three children, of whom two only are living -James W. and Anna M., wife of James Crozier, Auditor of Jefferson County. Mr. Cordrey is a member of I. O. O. F. He was out with Gen. Geo. Morgan, at Cumberland Gap, during the war.

Source: Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. By John M. Gresham & Co., 1889.