Louisa Amanda (Cody) Wellborn (1820 - 1862)

Born 2 Aug 1820 in Warren County, Georgia, USA

Ancestors

Died 26 Oct 1862 at age 42 in Georgia, United States

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Descendant of James Archdekin of Cody I.

Louisa (Cody) Wellborn was a Georgian.

Biography

Louisa Amanda was born in 1820 in Georgia to Michael Cody and Rebecca Rogers. She had at least 5 half-siblings: James, Mary, Peter, Elizabeth, Green Womack; and 4 siblings: Marion Michael, Temperance Sophronia, Jeptha Melton, and Madison Derrell.

3 Aug 1831 She is named in the will of her father as daughter, Louisa Amanda Cody (Proved 7 May 1832; Recorded 25 May 1832).

She attended the Briar Creek Academy in Warren County, then was sent by her mother to a school in Eatonton, Georgia

She married on 9 May 1839 in Warren County, Georgia, to James Madison Wellborn, son of Elias Wellborn and Mary Marshall. She was about 18 years old. They had at least 2 children together:

1. Mary Rebecca Wellborn
2. Louisa Derrelle Wellborn

Cody family memories relate that Mr. Wellborn purchased a lot from Dr. Lynah (possibly Dr. Edward T. Lynah Find A Grave: Memorial #101704137) who planted orchards of cherries and applies. Louisa had 3 summer houses built, one on either side and one over the front gate. Mr. Wellborn and his brother, Marshall, planted a large vineyard (wild olives) for the common use of the two families.

• Fact: Residence (1850) Division 90, Warren, Georgia

Household	Role	Sex	Age	Est Birth	Birthplace	Occupation
James M Welborn	Head	M	38	abt 1812	Georgia	Planter
Amanda L Welborn	Wife	F	30	abt 1820	Georgia
Mary R Welborn	Dau	F	10	abt 1840	Georgia
Louisa S Welborn	Dau	F	2	abt 1848	Georgia
Jeptha M Cody	BIL	M	27	abt 1823	Georgia	Physician
Eliza D Whitting	Unk	F	27	abt 1823	Massachusetts
Sarah M Turner	Unk	F	21	abt 1829	Massachusetts

• Fact: Residence (1860) Warrenton, Warren, Georgia

Household	Role	Sex	Age	Est Birth	Birthplace	Occupation
Jas M Willborn	Head	M	48	abt 1812	Georgia	Farmer & Note Shaver
Amanda L Willborn	Wife	F	40	abt 1820	Georgia
Mary R Willborn	Dau	F	19	abt 1841	Georgia
Louisa D Willborn	Dau	F	11	abt 1849	Georgia
Louisa Cody	Wife's Niece	F	12	abt 1848	Georgia
Mary Cody	Wife's Niece	F	8	abt 1852	Georgia

Louisa Amanda passed away in 1862 in Georgia at about the age of 42.

• Fact: Burial (1862) Cody Family Cemetery, Warrenton, Warren, Georgia

Her husband's will is signed and dated on 6 Feb 1882 in Warren County, Georgia. He names their two daughters, Mary Wellborn Camak and Louisa Derrelle Dubose as executors. Witnessed by J.M.W. Cody, J.P. Swain, and Jep M. Cody. Proved 5 Aug 1889 by J.P. Swain. Letter of Testamentary dated 5 Aug 1889 to Mary Wellborn Camak of Clark Countym Georgia, and L. Derrelle DuBose of the County of Warren.

Louisa was described by her family as "a noble woman and possessed of much natural beauty... a most superior woman, literary, a splendid housekeeper, and planted her own flower garden."

Links

FamilySearch PID: KZK6-8BJ
Find A Grave: Memorial #105961958 Headstone Photo: Yes

Sources

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZY6-BDV : 12 April 2016), Amanda L Welborn in household of James M J Welborn, Warren county, Warren, Georgia, United States; citing family 575, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZM4-F5H : 13 December 2017), Amanda L Wellborn in entry for Jas M Wellborn, 1860.
• "Georgia Deaths, 1914-1927", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDDL-346 : 4 December 2018), Louisa Cody in entry for M. W. Camak, 1919.
• "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NSF6-FHB : 26 August 2019), Louisa Amanda Cody in entry for Louisa Derrille Dubose, 3 Feb 1934; Death, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.
• Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
• National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books (152 Vols.) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2000.
• History of Warren County, Georgia, 1793-1974 (Wilhoit, Georgia, 1976), pages 39-44, record for James Cody and Sarah Womack.
• The Boaz Family/Ancestors and Descendants by Robert V. Boaz, 1999, pages 234-235.
• "A History of Our Irish American Cody Family" by William Howard Wright
• Family Tree Maker: Cody Ancestors
• http://books.google.com/books?id=xJQyAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA304&lpg=RA1-PA304&dq=%E2%86%91+Sarah+D.+Hubert%27s+complete+genealogy+of+the+Cody+family.&source=bl&ots=_hT0Vs7sqX&sig=KPfhsY1Mza5ItwWEE3cSqc1yxsU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4BmCVMXnDoGrNou6gdgG&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAg The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volumes 33-34] edited by Richard Henry Greene, Henry Reed Stiles, Melatiah Everett Dwight, George Austin Morrison, Hopper Striker Mott, John Reynolds Totten, Harold Minot Pitman, Charles Andrew Ditmas, Louis Effingham De Forest, Conklin Mann, Arthur S. Maynard, Page 300-304
• Rand, Hale, Strong and allied families compiled by Nettie Hale Rand, page 121, entry for Michael Cody in the record of James Cody and Sarah Womack.
• Sarah D. Hubert's complete genealogy of the Cody family.
• Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Vol. I page 211. record of James Cody.
• Cody Rogers of Georgia, by L. L. Cody, 1915
• Womack Genealogy Archdeacon Cody Family
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed 28 August 2019), memorial page for Louisa Amanda Cody Wellborn (5 Aug 1820–26 Oct 1862), Find A Grave Memorial no. 105961958, citing Cody Family Cemetery, Warrenton, Warren County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Emily Mixon Pentecost (contributor 46843071).

Acknowledgement

Thank you to Johnnie Franceta for creating WikiTree profile Cody-283 through the import of BBJoiner.ged on 21 Sep 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Johnnie and others.