The family lines previously researched are:

Waymon A. Coody, (deceased) researched and collected information on the Coody family for over 20 years and shared his information to many others. Much of the content of the genealogy information is from his work. He was preparing a manuscript for publication at the time of his death in October 1998. (Unfortunately his son is refusing to share his data anymore.)  This Web Site is dedicated to his memory.

Robert J. 'Bob' Coody (Rock Hill, SC) has done extensive research in the Coody, Coode, Weatherred, King, Suddarth, Bates, and Tomek family group over the past 19 years.  He also did extensive work on obtaining the Moravian Mission Diaries information to incorporate into this web site.  He and his wife Carolyn traveled to Tennessee, Texas, Georgia,  Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana to visit courthouses to collect documentation and meet family members.

Claudia Meinzer Rentrop (San Augustine, Texas) has worked on the Coody genealogy, particularly descendants of Benjamin Samuel Coody, and the Meinzer surname(s) over the past 13 years.   Claudia continues to be a major contributor with weekly updates of biography information.

Nancy Sharon Clark (Forth Worth Texas) has worked extensively on the Weatherred, Wiseman, Clark and other related families over many years.  She has been a major contributor of data for those families to us and the Sumner County, TN site.  Now, a retired school teacher, she hopes to contribute more for our Biograph section.

James Joseph Jeffcoat, Sr. (Sioux Falls, SD) has researched the  Jeffcoat family over a period of many years.  He traveled across the Southern States to collect documents, pictures and detailed information.  He has provided the bulk of the Jeffcoat data.

Sue Kerr Woods (deceasd) (Ada, Oklahoma) has researched the Ross, Coody, Hicks, and Lowrey family groups over the past 20 years and was preparing a manuscript for publication at the time of her untimely death on 4 March 2004.

Kate Weatherred (deceasd) worked extensively on the Weatherred and Bate family for over 18 years and put together a marvelous set of notebooks, (hand typed) and collected many documents to substantiate her data.  These she graciously loaned to incorporate into our data. 

Mary Seymour (Modesta, California) has done extensive research on the Coody family, particularly on the descendants of Hiram L. Coody (ca. 1787-1846). Her contributions have been invaluable.

Peggy Doggett (Needham, Alabama) has collected and provided information on Doggett, Adams, Rogers .

Carolyn E, Haile Coody (Rock Hill, SC) provided information on her lineage including the Haile, Crenshaw, and Beam families.

Corinne Coody Bolin (Richmond, Georgia) published a small paperback handbook on the Coody Family in 1965, and graciously allowed this information to be included.

James Howard 'Jim' Mitchum (Coppell, TX) has and is currently working on the Mitchum and Francis Marion Coody lineage.

Kenneth Wilson (Alturas, Calif) (Retired) has collected information and pictures of the Wilson family.  His aunt Josephine Wilson collected information over the years and shared these with Kenneth, who was kind enough to share these with us.

George Albert Marlow (Dallas, Texas) continues to work on the Marlow and Weatherred family.

Andrew Wagner  has his own family web site Wagner Family Tree and we were able to confirm some of our data, and pick up some details missing from our data.

James R. Hicks  (Virginia) has researched the Cherokee lineages for many years and has done an outstanding job of correlating available data into a magnificent database.  We have exchanged data with him over the years and James has been kind enough to share this work with us.  Mr. Hicks also has a web site at http://www.genealogy.com/users/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/index.html  At this time Mr. Hicks is not active with genealogy work, and we will share with him any updates we become aware.

Jerry Clark (Washington, DC) with the National Archives has assisted over the years and provides a unique knowledge of the Cherokee families and has provided many useful documents.

James 'Jim'  L. Wiseman (Hendersonville, Sumner Co. TN)  has researched the Wiseman, Spillman, and Weatherred families.  He contributed his Family Group Sheets which contained a lot of missing dates and places from our data.  This included a wealth of data on the Wiseman family that settled in western Virginia that became West Virginia.

Stephen Michael 'Steve' Sudderth  (Blowing Rock, NC)  has researched the Suddarth/Sudderth and related families (Hartley, Coffey, Gragg, Blair) families as they relate to the Sudderth that settled in the area of Caldwell, Watauga and Wilkes counties of North Carolina.

Guy Delano Folger (McAlester, OK) researched the Folger family and was the source of the marriage of Mary Coody, daughter of Daniel Ross Coody, Sr and Sarah Ross, to Stephen Folger in 1875, which was previously unknown.  We now gladly include their descendants in our family tree.

Joy Elaine Carroll (Eastman, Georgia) has researched the Coody and Holder families extensively and provided many corrections to the early book published by Corrine Bolin Coody in 1965, providing many sources and documents to substantiate the changes.  A magnificent effort  and greatly appreciated as a contribution to our efforts to maintain factual and accurate genealogy data.

Mary Kay Audd (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ), great granddaughter of Flora Rucker Coody who married  4 Apr 1866 Richard Young Audd, has provided information of their descendants as well as the ancestors of the Audd / Aud family.  She also provided a number of old photographs and biographic data that has been a real contribution to this website.

Billie Joyce Thornhill Hayley (Huntsville, Texas) although not a direct family member to the Coody family, has researched the family and many of the related families.  Born and raised in Seymour, Baylor Co., Texas, she knows the families and was friends with many.  Billie has shared considerable data with us and we have found it to be excellent, with superior source references and documentation.  She also has a website at Ancestry.com titled "Heartland of Texas"

Waymon Odell Coody	Kate Weatherred	Sue Kerr Wood	Claudia Meinzer Rentrop	Robert J Coody

George Albert Marlow	Andrew Wagner	Kenneth Ray Wilson	James J. Jeffcoat, Sr.	Nancy Sharon Clark
James L. 'Jim'  Wiseman	Billie Joyce Thornhill Hayley	Guy Lelano Folger	Mary Kay Audd	Shelby G. Coody

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