Addy, Isaiah S.
- Chandler Museum
Isaiah S. Addy was born in Arkansas. He joined the United States Army as a cavalryman prior to the Spanish
American War. He served in the Philippines among other locations during the war. After the conclusion of the war he was stationed at Fort McDowell patrolling southern Arizona. In total, he spent 8 years in the U. S. Cavalry.
In 1919, Isaiah Addy and his wife, Hattie Bell Addy, moved to Mesa. In 1927 they moved to Chandler. They raised their 8 children in a house on Delaware Street which backed up to the railroad tracks. Isaiah worked clearing land and digging irrigation ditches for local farmers. In 1928 he came down with pneumonia and passed away in a veterans hospital in Tempe.
His son, Noel Addy, recalled in a 2009 oral history interview that his father didn’t have a middle name: “He didn’t have a middle name, but when he joined the military like everything else, they asked, ‘What’s your middle name?' and he said, ‘I don’t have a middle name.' And they said, ‘We gotta have a something there to show it.’ Then he said, 'Well, put an S down there.’ So he never had a middle name, but on his military records it was Isaiah S. Addy.”
