Edith Vann was born about 1750 in North Carolina. She was the daughter of Edward Vann and his first wife, Mary Barnes. Edward and Mary Barnes left Bertie, North Carolina in 1757 and acquired land in South Carolina the next year in 1758.
In 1758, when Edward acquired the patent in South Carolina for 200 acres, the condition to receive the land patent was that the patentee could received 50 acres for each member of his family. The four individuals needed to qualify to patent 200 acres would have been: Edward, his wife, Clement age 12, and Avery, age about 10. His older sons applied for patents on their own, even though these cannot be found. His daughter Edith married A. A. Coody about this time [1]
Edith and Arthur were the parents of : Sgt. Major Lewis Coody, Esther Coody, Rachel Coody, James Coody, Edward Coody, Zephaniah Coody Sr., and Joseph Coody.
Arthur died in 1782 and Edith was appointed administratrix of his estate. [2] Edith appears on a 1787 census in Edgefield, South Carolina [3] and then on a tax list in Lincoln, Georgia in 1803. [4]
Some accounts say that Edith died and is buried in 1805 in Lincoln, Georgia.
Son Zephaniah left Lincoln County in 1808 and became the overseer for his cousin James Vann in the Cherokee Nation. His wife and children are mentioned in Moravian records but not his mother suggesting that she may have died by 1808. [5] Zephaniah moved to Mississippi after Vann's murder. Son Joseph was already married to a Cherokee woman and living in the Cherokee Nation.
Son Joseph Coodey. Birth: Feb. 19, 1779 Edgefield County, South Carolina, USA Death: Oct. 11, 1859, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory
He married on 6 Jun 1805, (Jane) Jennie Ross (buried at Holland), daughter of Daniel Ross and Mary McDonald."[6] Starr Notes D098, Vol I, Page 143 [7]
Archibald Coody and the Vanns were loyalists and interpreters during the French Indian and Revolutionary wars because of their occupation as traders with the Cherokee, Shawnee and Chickasaw in and around Augusta up to Old 96 to Chowen, NC[8]
Edith married Arthur Archibald Coody Sr. [14697] [MRIN: 5510], son of James Lewis Coody [14699] and Unknown. (Arthur Archibald Coody Sr. [14697] was born in 1742 in , , Maryland, USA and died in June 1782 in , Edgecombe, North Carolina, USA.)
Notes for Arthur Archibald Coody: (Information posted by Al Cloud):
Arthur Coody was born ca 1742.I have a copy of a deposition he gave in 1763 while a private in the French and Indian War to the effect that Creek Indians with scalps on them chased him from noon on a Saturday until Sunday morning, when he came upon a band of cherkogee large enough to prtect him.
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