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Edith (Vann) Coody (abt. 1750 - 1805)

Edith Coody formerly Vann
Born about in Abbeyville District, South Carolina Colonymap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married about 1772 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 55 in Lincoln, Georgia, United Statesmap
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Biography

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Edith (Vann) Coody was a South Carolina colonist.

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.

Research Notes

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.

Possible sources:
  1. Lincoln County, GA. -Loose Estate Papers-Edith Coody Packet.Will
  2. Family Group Sheet submitted by James Coody, Corossett, AR- Feb 1996
  3. Sarah Mozingo Database. Coody Cemetery, Dedicated to Coody Family Foundation Nov. 1, 1998, 9 Generations; 1,286 Descendents. This cemetery is located near the Choctaw/Sumter County line on the Sumter side. a slab containing information is located at entrance inscriptions.
  4. Talbot Family History
  5. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3QZ4-2SM : accessed 2017-01-13), entry for Edith Vann
  6. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3QBZ-ZTP : accessed 2017-01-13), entry for Edith /Vann/.

Sources

  1. https://pioneersalongsoutherntrails.blogspot.com/2017/03/john-vann-trader-among-thecherokee_15.html
  2. Miscellaneous Estate Papers (Abbeville County, South Carolina), 1782-1958; Author: South Carolina. Probate Court (Abbeville County); Probate Place: South Carolina Notes: Probate Records, Boxes 19-20, Packages 390-455, 1782-1958
  3. Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. South Carolina Census, 1790-1890. Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.
  4. Smith, Sarah Quinn. Early Georgia Wills, Lincoln County. p. 38, incorrectly transcribed as Edith "Cooly," includes son Zephaniah.
  5. Crews, Daniel and Starbuck, Richard, ed. Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees. Cherokee Heritage Press, Tahlequah, OK. Vol. 3, various
  6. Joseph Shorey Coody on Find A Grave: Memorial #5096938 retrieved June 14, 2019
  7. [(http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/a/s/Barbara-A-Baskins/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0320.html)]
  8. [( (Mitch Morris))]




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Replaced Charity with Mary as mother.
posted by Kathie (Parks) Forbes
This profile needs major help. I have added the basic facts, but there is a lot of extraneous/incorrect information attached in the research notes. She is attached to the wrong mother. Edith had NO Cherokee connection, she was white, her husband was white, her children were white. Her husband had Cherokee children with a Cherokee woman. Her death and burial appear to be undocumented.
posted by Kathie (Parks) Forbes
Vann-1192 and Vann-131 appear to represent the same person because: Clearly meant to be the same woman
posted by Kathie (Parks) Forbes

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