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Born in Georgia on August 17, 1800, William was the oldest son of Clayton Moseley Coody, Sr. and Mary Ann Walker. He married Louvenia Ann Denham in Butts County, Georgia on January 26, 1851, when she was only fifteen years old (b. November 1, 1835, in Georgia). Their first child was a son, James W., born in Georgia on October 16, 1857. As the population of the country grew, it began a westward trek. William and Anna joined the rest of the populace and started west They put down roots in Hinds County, Mississippi, among the Indians in 1858. Their first child born in Mississippi was a daughter, Alice Florence, born May 4, 1859, next a son, George Washington (b. Newton Co, Mississippi about 1862), and another daughter, Martha F., (b. in 1864). They remained in Mississippi for seven years.