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EDUCATION: A son of Captain David Columbus Cody, a native of Warren County, Georgia, Emmett entered The University of Georgia in 1869 and, in 1871, became one the Five Founders of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta as a sophomore. Cody was a member of The University of Georgia Class of 1873 but left school before graduation.
Brother Cody was a kinsman of Madison Cody (UGA 1848) of Warren County - a member of the Temple of the Skull and Bones of the Mystic Seven at The University of Georgia, the first fraternal, secret society on campus, established there in 1846. Madison Cody’s description of an initiation ceremony conducted by the Mystics in Athens is recorded in the book, “The Mystics and Beta Theta Pi,” by Karl W. Fischer, Germantown, Pennsylvania, published by Beta Theta Pi fraternity, 1940, p. 21.
Of that ceremony, conducted in the chambers of the Phi Kappa literary society, Cody states that Alonzo Webster Church, the son of then-President of the University Alonzo S. Church, served as “Bumbote,” president or chairman. Madison Cody was later a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1853-1854, according to Fischer, and fought in the Confederate Army but died in action in 1863 at Crampton’s Gap [Burkittsville - CSA], Virginia. President Alonzo Church’s mother was Elizabeth Whipple, related to later Kappa Deuteron Brothers Ulysses Virgil Whipple and William Holliman Whipple. Emmett and Madison Cody also have shared family connections to Phi Gamma Delta Brother Churchill Pomeroy Goree and the family of brothers Benning Moore Kennon and William Augustus Kennon.
Brother Emmett Cody was working in Columbus, Georgia, when he took ill in January of 1877. For several years, he was a bookkeeper at the Lowell warehouse of the historic, cotton and textile giant Eagle and Phenix Mill, at one time the largest mill in the South. He returned to his parents’ home in Chattahoochee County, Georgia, to recover but passed away there a few months later. According to his obituary in The Columbus Daily Enquirer, Columbus, Georgia, Thursday, May 10, 1877, p. 4: “(Cody) was warm-hearted, generous, without a single bad trait and was greatly loved by his comrades.”
Brother Cody was a kinsman of Madison Cody (UGA 1848) of Warren County - a member of the Temple of the Skull and Bones of the Mystic Seven at The University of Georgia, the first fraternal, secret society on campus, established there in 1846. Madison Cody’s description of an initiation ceremony conducted by the Mystics in Athens is recorded in the book, “The Mystics and Beta Theta Pi,” by Karl W. Fischer, Germantown, Pennsylvania, published by Beta Theta Pi fraternity, 1940, p. 21.
Of that ceremony, conducted in the chambers of the Phi Kappa literary society, Cody states that Alonzo Webster Church, the son of then-President of the University Alonzo S. Church, served as “Bumbote,” president or chairman. Madison Cody was later a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1853-1854, according to Fischer, and fought in the Confederate Army but died in action in 1863 at Crampton’s Gap [Burkittsville - CSA], Virginia. President Alonzo Church’s mother was Elizabeth Whipple, related to later Kappa Deuteron Brothers Ulysses Virgil Whipple and William Holliman Whipple. Emmett and Madison Cody also have shared family connections to Phi Gamma Delta Brother Churchill Pomeroy Goree and the family of brothers Benning Moore Kennon and William Augustus Kennon.
Brother Emmett Cody was working in Columbus, Georgia, when he took ill in January of 1877. For several years, he was a bookkeeper at the Lowell warehouse of the historic, cotton and textile giant Eagle and Phenix Mill, at one time the largest mill in the South. He returned to his parents’ home in Chattahoochee County, Georgia, to recover but passed away there a few months later. According to his obituary in The Columbus Daily Enquirer, Columbus, Georgia, Thursday, May 10, 1877, p. 4: “(Cody) was warm-hearted, generous, without a single bad trait and was greatly loved by his comrades.”
