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Author: ta2edredhead
Surnames: Cody, Coodey, Gunter, Adairs, Shorey, Willston, Ross, Keer, Ruckner, Looney, LeFlore, Hardage, Thornberry, Hodgens
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My GGMa, Anne Mae Heppe started to research her family over 50 years ago. I have the following letters in my possession that I thought might help someone with some Cody/Coodey family history. If anyone wants information from my Cody line...
2nd great grandmother being Jane Josephine Cody
d/o Matt "Madison" Cody/Margaret Gunter
s/o Charles Cody/Eleanor Riley
s/o Arthus Archibald Cody/Milcah ??
s/o Archibald Cody/Elizabeth ??
s/o Arthur A. Cody/unknown - my 6th GGparents...
please email me at ta2edredhead(a)gmail.com.
Letter written by Anna Mae Heppe:
"Well now, my mother was Jane Josephine Cody, the daughter of Matt Cody. My grandmother was a Gunther (Note from P. Hupka: Should be Gunter), of Huntsville, Alabama, So my grandmother and grandfather came here to California for my grandfather's health. Grandpa's health became so bad that grandma put my mother, Josephine Cody, and my mother's sister, Nellie, in a home while grandfather and my grandmother started home from California to Oklahoma, by team of horses and wagon, so if anything happened to him on the way from home he could not be buried in the Home Burying grounds.
With grandpa dead three nights and two days, grandma got home at night, grandma doing all the driving. The neighbors were so happy to hear that Matt Coody's (Note from P. Hupka: a/k/a Cody) coming home that the people came in to see him. Grandma Coody told them 'the trip has made him so tied you had better wait til morning.' - in the meantime, grandma gave several hundred head of ponies and cattle to the undertaker to keep him quiet, so as to be able to bury him in the Ross burying grounds. In the morning, grandma told the visitors that Matt Coody had passed away in the night.
I...I think Josephine's father was a deaf mute. She had a little sister named Nellie (Note from P. Hupka: I have never found record of Jane having siblings) whom she took home, quite sick, to Fort Gibson some time in the late 60's or early 70's. Nellie died there, and was buried in the Ross burying ground at Fort Gibson. She did not go to Kansas."
Letter written to Mrs. May Standiford by Daniel Coodey, dated May 16, 1954 (Copy in possession of P. Hupka)
"Dear Cousin:
After reading of your request to the Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, Postmaster, in the Muskogee County News regarding your information about your relatives, I will endeavor to give you what I have regarding the Coodey clan.
According the the genealogy compiled by the Historian, Emmet Starr, the Coodey family of Cherokees started in the county when Ghi-goo-ie, a full blood Cherokee woman, married William Shorey. Their daughter, Annie Shorey, became the wife of John McDonald of Willston, S. Caroline; their daughter, Mary, married Daniel Ross; their daughter, Jennie (also known as Jane), became the wife of Joseph Coodey. (Note from P. Hupka: This is not out line)
In explanation, Jane,t he wife of Joseph Coodey, was the sister of Chief John Ross. I do not have available in my records the complete family of Daniel and Mary Ross. I have heard my folks talk of Lewis Ross, who was a brother of chief John Ross and Jane Coodey, nee Ross. As I have no written information of the Ross family, I am sure there were other brothers and sisters of Jane and John Ross.
Back to the Coodeys, I find in most all printed matter about them the name was spelled, Coody. However, on the grave markers in the Holland cemetery, between Fort Gibson and Tahlequah, the name is spelled Coodey. It is also spelled Coodey in all of Grant and Carolyn Foreman writings and research.
Charles Coodey, a nephew of Joseph and Jane coodey, and the complete family of Joseph and Jane Coodey came to what we know as the Cherokee Nation. Part of these families came before the "Trail of Tears episode", but most of the family was brought to Indian Territory in the "Trail of Tears" forcible removal. Charles settled at what is known at Coodys Bluff, Okla. (Now back to Joseph and Jane Coodey's family).
Joseph and Jane Coodey became the parents of ten children, part of which were grown before the Indian Removal to Indian Territory. Their children were William Shorey Coodey, who married Susan Hensley and Elizabeth Fields; Daniel Ross Coodey, who married Amanda Drew, Sarah Ross, and Eliza Levisa Bennett; Elizabeth Coodey became the second wife of Choctaw Chief Greenwood LeFlore; Letitia Coodey married Looney Price; Maria Ross Coodey was the wife of J.G.M. Hawkins; Mary Coodey married Frederick Agustus Keer; Flora Coodey be came the first wife of Daniel H. Ruckner, who became a general in the United States Army; Joseph McDonald Coodey married Mary Rebecca Thornberry and Mary Muskogee Hardage who was one-half Creek Indian; and Margaret Coodey who was the fire of Elijah Hicks.
The Joseph Coodey family made their home about one-half way between fort Gibson and Tahlequah. Their home was completely destroyed during the Civil War. William Shorey and Daniel Ross loved near the Joseph Coodey home for the first few years in Indian Territory. Later they built homes east of Muskogee on the Arkansas River bank. Their homes were also destroyed during the Civil War. Joseph McDonald settled at what was known as Three Forks, and shortly after marrying Mary Muskogee Hardage moved to Wufaula and was in the business there until his death.
There are many descendants of this family scattered over Oklahoma and the United States.
There are no living descendants of William Shorey Coodey by the name of Coodey, but there are several descendants of his daughter.
The Daniel Ross Coodey clan is the one of which I am a member. Daniel Ross Coodey and Sarah Ross Coodey were my great grand parents; and their son, Lewis Ross Coodey, and Elizabeth Collier are my grand parents; and their son, Daniel Ross Coodey, and Elizabeth Ella Hodgens are my parents. I have four brothers; Andrew M. Coodey, Dallas, Texas; Sequoyah K. Coodey, Bakersfield, Calif; Dewitt T. Coodey, Shafter, Calif; and Charles O'Keefe Coodey, of Pueblo, Colo.
My father is living in Muskogee. He had three brothers; Joseph, who moved to California before the first World War and who was killed in France; William, who was in Tulsa and died during the last World War; and Benjamin, who is now living in Joplin, MO. There were four sisters, all of whom married and reared families. I wouldnt attempt to name those tho whom they were married, without records to check.
I hope this information may be of use to you. I should add that my great, great grandfather, Joseph, was born in Virginia and his parents came to Virginia from Scotland.
As best as I can recall, the Rogers family is related to the Ross family, the Keys to the Ross family, and the Scotts and Adairs married Coodeys; but which of the Coodeys I do not know. The descendants of Charles Coodey, at Coodys Bluff, as many so it is possible it was some of his clan.
I was born at Starville, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, on July 24, 1901. I have from time to time picked up the information I have regarding the Coodeys. During the last World War, sone (Note from P. Hupka: actual spelling) one carried off much of the information I has assembled and filed away in old books.
Very sincerely,
Daniel Coodey"
Letter written to Mrs. May Standiford by Daniel Coodey, dated March 25, 19656( Copy in possession of P. Hupka)"
"Dear Cousin:
Thanks very much for your letter of March 22nd. Please forgive me for not getting the information together that I wanted to write to you about sooner. I have the letters you sent me copied and am returning them with on of the copys I make so you may read what is in the old letters more easily.
Have managed for another copy of the Winter, 1947-48 Oklahoma Chronicles that has an article by Mrs. Grant (Carolyn Thomas) Foreman titled: "The Coodey Family of Indian Territory". Mrs. Foremand is the daughter of one of the Indian Territory Federal Judges and her husband, Grant, (now deceased) wrote several books that are considered authentic so far as facts and history is concerned. I have underligned the names of my direct forebeareres that are listed in the article.
>From all the information I've come across, it looks as if Madison Cody, who married Margaret Gunter might have been the Coodey your refer to as Matt Coodey. He is the only Coodey I have been able to find records of having married a Gunter. I'm well aware of the fact that the Coodeys, Keys, and Gunters are cousins.
After reading the article by Mrs. Foreman you may remember something that will conclusively show just the relationship you are to us. According to my father's memory, Matt Coodey was a son or grandson of Charles Coodey who did not stay in Indian territory and prove up on his claim as a Cherokee Citizen. He doesn't have any papers nor evidence to substantiate this idea. He says that his folks that are gone on mentioned Matt's name occasionally but that doesn't do any good so far as proof is concerned. However that my be the reason I've been unable to find any records.
After re-reading all of your letters, notice that my father, Daniel Ross Coodey was born two days before you were born. His birth was November 17, 1877.
You say your mother brought you back to Indian Territory in the winter of 1878...helps in a way to explain why your name is not found on the records that are now available. All the dealings with the Cherokees were done by an Indian Ageny (Note from P. Hupka: should be "agency") through the Army until the late 1890's. The so called Dawes Commission was set up to see that justice was done in the Indian Territory. All it did was to create hardships on the Cherokees as well as the other Five Civilized Tribes. Because of its not being able to cope with the situation the Curtis Act was passed which forced the Indians to accept allotment of their land as the almost last payment to the Indians in Indian Territory. The actual allotments of Cherokee lands began in Vinita January 1, 1903. The land office gave up all the land they had been leasing from the Cherokee Government of more than 110 acre per person. That caused lots of trouble and slowed up the allotment. The Dawes C!
ommission started laying the groundwork for land allotment shortly after the Curtis Act was passed June 28, 2898. The allotment did not start until January 1, 1903 and the rolls were closed March 4, 1907. By checking further, I find that 312 additional names were added to the Cherokee Rolls later by an act of Congress August 1, 1914.
So the more we look through old records, the bigger the injustice we discover was done to the Indians and their relatives. The Dawes Commission did not pay any attention to the up-to-date Cherokee Government records and allotted land to ones who could show to the Commissions satisfaction the applicants were Indians. If it were possible to locate the old official Cherokee records, I'm sure we could show why your claim was never handled. Someone, either as, as a parent or guardian, or a lawyer acting with a power of attorney could present facts and have a person alloted land.
The more I look, the more I think that you and several other, maybe thousands would have received land had the Dawes Commission used the Official Cherokee records in place of making new ones. I think I know of at lease two instances where whites got Fullblood Indians to testify before the Commission that they had same mother.
You can see by all this almost contradictory information about not being able to recover anything from the government depends on evidence that is somethings granted by a special act of Congress.
The next time I go to Oklahoma I will try to locate the Official Cherokee records and see if there is a possibility for you to recover something.
Really enjoy your letters...I've been more busy than I should be...We have been short one man in the advertising department since Christmas until two weeks ago...so didn't have time to so the things I wanted to.
Let me know how you are....will mail this and your letters together with the Oklahoma Chronicles tomorrow.
With love, your Cousin,
Dan Coodey"
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Author: ta2edredhead
Surnames: Cody, Gunter, Riley
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I would be interested in a family history of William F. Cody. My 2nd great grandmother was Jane Jospephine Cody (daughter of Matt "Madison" Cody & Margaret Gunter, born in the Cherokee Nation). I was always told by my grandma that William F. was related to my Cody line, but I havent found a link.
Matt Cody's Father was Charles Cody (b. 1789)
His father was Arthur Archibald Cody (b. 1764, TN)
His father was Archibald Cody (b. 1740, MD)
His father was Arthur A. Cody (dates unknown and my dead end)
You can email me at ta2edredhead(a)gmail.com
Thanks!!
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Author: EileenManza53
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I believe my great grandmother was from Kilkenny but havn't gone on the International site yet to research. I am still doing my research in the US. Thanks
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Author: pandccouttie
Surnames: Cody Coady Codie Couttie
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I have Michael Cody who married Annie (possibly Cody too)in Kilkenny in 1841. They moved to Dundee after that and changed their name to Couttie. Do you know anymore about your Kilkenny Cody ancestors?
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Author: jimcoady
Surnames: Cody, Clancy, Beagan, Brennick, McLoud
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Laurence Cody was born in County Kilkenny in 1815 and moved to Prince Edward Island, Canada, around 1830. Ann Clancy was born in Newfoundland, Canada, in 1816.
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Author: t42Hilltop_DalCoTX
Surnames: CODY
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CODY Lillian Frances 1919 1981 Mother
David Strickland photographed this gravestone in the Hilltop Memorial Park Cemetery, Carrollton, Dallas Co., Texas. Feel free to use the picture for your personal records.
This is one of the 182,667 cemetery photos free for your personal use at http://teafor2.com
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Author: t42Hilltop_DalCoTX
Surnames: CODY
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CODY Mary Frances PETERSON 1938 1990
David Strickland photographed this gravestone in the Hilltop Memorial Park Cemetery, Carrollton, Dallas Co., Texas. Feel free to use the picture for your personal records.
This is one of the 182,667 cemetery photos free for your personal use at http://teafor2.com
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Author: gormanann1
Surnames: Cody, Slater
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Want info about Stephen CODY (b.1820 in Clonmel or Waterford) who married Bridget (b. Carrick-on-Suir in Tipperary, Ire). Their children David and Frances were born in Ire. They moved to Manchester, Eng. where John, Mary and Catherine were born. Stephen was a shoemaker. Frances married Charles Slater. Mary married Daniel Slater.
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Author: gormanann1
Surnames: Cody, Slater
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Looking for Frances CODY, dau. of Stephen (b. 1820 in Carrick-on-Suir or Clonmel, Tipperary) and Bridget.
Frances moved to Manchester, England with family. Married Charles Slater and they moved to Mass. and later Maine.
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Author: waynekathyhatfield
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I found this in the 1900 census. I have a Rilda Cody is my gr grandma. Does anyone know anything about James and Annie or Rildia? I heard that when Rildas father died she lived with someone Else. Is Annie her real mom or her Step daughter too?
Name: Rildia j Codia
Home in 1900: Civil District 6, Moore, Tennessee
Age: 14
Estimated birth year: abt 1886
Birthplace: Tennessee
Relationship to head-of-house: Stepdaughter
Mother's name: Annie C
Race: White
Occupation: View image
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Household Members: Name Age
James L Codia 37
Annie C Codia 35
Rildia j Codia 14
Terrace p Codia 6
Onnf l Codia 2
Carson T Payne 27
John Flax 17
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Author: EileenManza53
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My great grandparents were from Kilkenny, Ireland born about 1850. They were Patrick and Mary Clancy
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Author: Simplypat1
Surnames: Cody Garrett
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Anyone have any information on Eva Cody Garrett from Warren co. Ga and Atlanta? I can't find names for her husband's Parents so I can't research him at all.
They were my Great-Grandparents. Thanks, Pat
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Author: jimcoady
Surnames: Cody, Clancy, Beagan, Brennick, McLoud
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My great-great-grandparents were Laurence Cody and Ann Clancy. Where did your great-grandparents live? What time frame?
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Author: EileenManza53
Surnames: Famon Clancy Cody
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Hello,
I am just getting back in to finish my geneology when I saw your message from 2001. W.P. Cody was my mothers Uncle Bill, and Mary Fanning Clancy Cody was my great grandmother. Hopefully you still have this same email address and will contact me.
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Author: CFreriks
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I would like to contact Lucile Black Cody who was raised by her uncle, Walter Black. Thank you.
Connie (Baker) Freriks
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Author: TerriCox70
Surnames: CODY
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HI,
Thanks for posting this question. I am not sure because my maternal great grandmother's name is Alice Cody from Valparasio, Indiana. We are related to Buffalo Bill Cody as a distant cousin.
Where did you get the painting at and who had this in possession before you?
Could you email me the photo of the painting at TLCox70(a)yahoo.com would be appreicated.
Thanks!
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Author: janzen200
Surnames: Cody Bassett
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I have in my possession a pastel drawing with the name A. Cody on it (and the date 1923) and am trying to figure out which of the decendants of Buffalo Bill this belongs to. I am told that it can not be Arta Cody because she died in 1904. So who would it be? It definitely is in the same family as it mentions Buffalo Bill and his son, Tom Horn, the Bassetts and Arta Cody on the back. It has a story written in pen on the back about the Cody perspective of what happened on the range.
My email is janzen200 at yahoo.com and phone number 616 204-2268.
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