My Genealogy Hound

Michael C. Cody, a farmer of Clay Township, was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1833, and is a son of Michael and Mary (Henesy) Cody, natives of Ireland, where they were reared and married. A few years after they came to America, locating in New York, and from there went to Ohio, where the mother died when our subject was about six years old, and the father followed the footsteps of the mother about three years after. Michael C. began life for himself, after the death of his father, working on the farm until he was sixteen years of age, receiving at first about $4 per month for his labor. In 1848 he went to St. Louis, where he remained some five years, running on the river. In 1853 he went to California, where he mined, and thus received a financial start in the world. In 1855 he returned and located where he now resides, near Adair, where he has a fine farm of 233 acres, all the result of his own labor. He was married in 1857 to Miss Mary Cook, a daughter of Richard V. and Margaret Cook. Thirteen children have been born to them, eight of whom are living, all in Adair County. Mr. Cody is a Conservative, and he and family are members of St. Mary’s Catholic Church.