Emma Coody [1089] ¹

  General Notes:

As a child I visited "Grannie Berryhill" every summer. Carrie and I would ride the train from Hazlehurst to Cochran. Mama would put us on the train and Carrie Berryhill (Aunt Carrie) would be there to get us off. The trip took 2 hours to travel 65 miles. The train stopped at every town; Lumber City, McRae, Helena, Towns, Dubois, Eastman, Chauncy, and Empire to name a few. When we first started riding the engines were the old coal type, I think; most of the time it was the new desiel(?) we called them the streamlined trains. We road on the Southern Railways. I don't know how old we were when we began riding alone but probably 6 and 4 maybe 8 and 6. Grannie died when I was 8 so maybe she wasn't alive when we went alone. I do remember going the year she died. Mama, Reuben, Carrie and myself road the bus. It was Christmas time and Mama took all our Christmas gifts in a large box. She left Sam with Papa in Hazlehurst and left his gifts there. Sam and Papa came for Grannie's funeral. I don't remember too much about Grannie except she was old and wore long dresses and her hair in a bun. There was a wood stove for cooking in the kitchen, a smoke house outside, lots of fig, apple, and plum trees, and lots of flowers.

  Burial Notes:

Coody Cemetery # 2 Located in Cochran, Bleckley County, Georgia, direction, leave traffic light at 2nd and Dykes St. go west on Hwy. 26, half mile to Limestone road turn left go about a mile -turn right on Henry Simpson road, turn right at house in the middle of the road- go about 500 yards in the field -cemetery is on the left.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Picture: Emma Coody.

Emma married Samual Berryhill Jr. [1088] [MRIN: 485], son of Samuel Berryhill Sr. [1949] and Laura Antionette Sauls [2013], on October 28, 1894 in Cochran, Bleckley, Georgia, USA. (Samual Berryhill Jr. [1088] was born on October 16, 1873, died on June 27, 1903 in Cochran, Bleckley, Georgia, USA and was buried in Cochran, Bleckley, Georgia, USA.)

Emma next married James Anderson [5771] [MRIN: 2574] on April 16, 1914. (James Anderson [5771] died on February 10, 1938.)