Re: coody or coodey spelling
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Re: coody or coodey spelling
Robert Coody 12/18/07
The original spelling may have been Coode.However, the two Coody's listed in Edgefield, South Carolina in 1790, spelled, or at least the recorder spelled it Coody.James name, on the 1820, Giles County, Tennessee, 1830 Fayette County, Tennessee and the 1840 and 1841 Tippah County, Mississippi Census records is Coody.Henry Carter's name was spelled Coody in 1850, Attala County, MS; as was his brother's Zephaniah and Daniel.In 1860, their names were spelled Coody in Jackson County, MS.In 1870, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, the recorder spelled it Coodey, but in 1880, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, it is spelled Coody.Therefore, since the bulk of evidence, seems to support the name being spelled Coody, I am convinced that this is the correct spelling.
Incidentally, Henry Carter Coody is the 3rd greatgrandpa of my husband.He was born in Giles County, Tennessee and died in Rapides Parish, Louisiana. For the record, my late father in law, stated that he was almost pure Cherokee.No doubt there was a sprinkling of some other ethnic group, somewhere in the Welch/Duncan/Humphries or other ancestors, but he was informed by them that he was a proud Cherokee.This leads me to believe that James Coody was full blood Cherokee and a prominent one, at that.
According to the 1830 and 1840 Censuses, he was 70-80 years old.I realize that mistakes were made, on these records but to date, this is all that I have to document with.So I have come to the conclusion that he was born about 1760/2, in Edgefield, South Carolina, which at that time was part of the Cherokee holdings.
Ethel Coody