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Doctor Nelson Towers CODY

Male 1829 - Aft 1889  (> 61 years)


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  • Name Nelson Towers CODY 
    Title Doctor 
    Born 12 Sep 1829  New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Aft 1889  San Francisco, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Buried 01 Dec 1896  Onondaga, Cicero, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I160  Bob-Millie Family Tree
    Last Modified 12 Oct 2022 

    Father Unknown CODY
              d. Bef 1850 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Panorid UNKNOWN
              b. 1788, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F165  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Elizabeth MELMER
              b. 1828, Leicester, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 30 Jul 1873, Coulterville, San Francisco California Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 45 years) 
    Married 1873  San Francisco, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Last Modified 12 Oct 2022 
    Family ID F162  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Martha A UNKNOWN
              b. 1828, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Aft 1850, Waukegan Lake County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 23 years) 
    Married Abt 1846 
    Children 
     1. Nelson L CODY
              b. 1847, Waukegan Lake County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
    Last Modified 12 Oct 2022 
    Family ID F163  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Jennie MILLS
              b. 1845, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 1877  San Francisco, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Last Modified 12 Oct 2022 
    Family ID F164  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    1880 Seattle, Washington: Nelson T Cody    		1880 Seattle, Washington: Nelson T Cody

  • Notes 
    • NOTE 1./ e-mail from Carol Cooper <>

      I am please to tell you that I have made quite a leap forward in the saga of Elizabeth Melmer-Cody and more importantly the elusive "Dr William Cody", who turns out to be a gentleman doctor by the name of Nelson T Cody!!

      From the link to the San Francisco Call Newspaper Vital Records for 1869-1895 you kindly sent me re Elizabeth Melmer-Cody's death in 1873 I spotted a little further down the page an entry for a marriage between N T Cody, Dr, and Elizabeth Melner (sic.) in 1873, San Francisco, together with an additional marriage entry for Dr N T Cody to a Jennie Mills in 1877, thus .....

      Cody, Elizabeth Melmer... died in 1873 ... age -- ...1873D-613
      Cody, N.T., Dr.... married in 1873 to Melner, Elizabeth ...1873M-524
      Cody, N.T., Dr.... married in 1877 to Mills, Jennie ...1877M-273.

      It would appear from this that Elizabeth Melmer Murphy was married in SanFrancisco to Dr Cody, her second husband, and died the very same year, aged about 45 years.

      However this casts doubt upon the name written on the rear of the photograph from Tanis, i.e. Mrs William Cody, Aunty Betsy. At first I thought the entry above was from a poor transcription and that the "N" had been interpreted from the "W" for William, until I began to look into the census entries for the US 1880. I now realise that the addition of the word "William" on the rear of the photograph was probably to determine her relationship with William Melmer, her brother, and not the name of her husband as is now proven here.

      In the USA census entries for 1880 I discovered the entry for Nelson T Cody, Doctor/druggist, aged 52, with wife Jennie aged 35, present at King, Washington, USA. Nelson was born New York circa 1828, Jennie was Canadian, born circa 1845 - both of Scottish parentage

  • Sources 
    1. [S2138] San Francisco, California Directories, 1889-91, Ancestry.com.
      Name: Nelson L. A. Cody
      Location 2: 725 Pine
      Business Name: J. R. Gates & Co.
      Occupation: druggist
      Year: 1889
      City: San Francisco
      State: CA


    2. [S2137] San Francisco Call Newspaper Vital Records for 1869-1895.
      Cody, Elizabeth Melmer... died in 1873 ... age -- ...1873D-613
      Cody, N.T., Dr.... married in 1873 to Melner, Elizabeth ...1873M-524


    3. [S2137] San Francisco Call Newspaper Vital Records for 1869-1895.
      Cody, N.T., Dr.... married in 1877 to Mills, Jennie ...1877M-273