Pierce (Pearce) Cody^{[1, 2, 3]}

1754 - 1845  (91 years)

• Name	Pierce (Pearce) Cody
  Birth	10 Oct 1754	Wilkes County, North Carolina
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Oct 1845
  Person ID	I48	Georgia Revolutionary War Graves
  Last Modified	23 Sep 2006

  
  

• Headstones

  Cody, Pierce (Pearce) GPS Location is 34° 44.945'N, 084° 33.830'W Google Map

  
  

• Notes

  He was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina on October 10, 1754. He married Charety Ward and they had one son, Jessee Pearson Cody, born October 25, 1818, and one daughter, Lucinda Cody. Pierce served in the Continental Militia and living in Wilkes County, would place him at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. He did not apply for a federal pension. The family lived in the Morgan District of Wilkes County and his cabin has been donated to the Western Carolina University. He was listed as head of the household in the first census taken in North Carolina in 1790. By the 1800 census, they had moved to Buncombe County and in the early 1840's the Cody family went by wagon train to settle in Gilmer County, Georgia.

  
  

• Sources

  [S12] Annals of Uper Georgia Centered in Gilmer County, p. 213. [S17] Arnold, Ross & Burnham, Hank, Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers, (New Papyrus Co., Inc., 548 Cedar Creek Drive, Athens, GA 30605), v. 1, p. 281. [S18] Graves of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia.