From collection Member List
EDUCATION: Brother Goree entered The University of Georgia in 1871. He was among the first ten members of Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta and also served as chapter treasurer. Goree was a member of The University of Georgia Class of 1873. Later, he was a founding member of the Atlanta Graduate Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta when it was chartered in 1923. A life-long loyal Fiji, Goree attended Diamond Jubilee Ekklesia [Phi Gamma Delta’s national convention at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania] in September 1923, which included a pilgrimage to Canonsburg, site of the Fraternity’s founding.
He was a son of Eli Goree, one of the pioneer citizens of Walker County, Georgia.
CAREER: Churchill Goree, after leaving The University of Georgia, taught school and was a school principal in his hometown of LaFayette, Walker County, Georgia. Later, Goree studied law and was for many years a very well-known figure in legal circles in the Southeast.
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CODY, GOREE AND KENNON FAMILIES AND THEIR KAPPA DEUTERON CONNECTIONS
There is a Phi Gamma Delta connection between the Carr, Goree and Cody families as well as the Kennon family.
Kappa Deuteron Brother Emmett Cody was a son of David Columbus Cody and grandson of Lawson Cody of Warren County. Lawson Cody’s brother was Jeptha Melton Cody. Jeptha Melton Cody married first Missouri Eliza Cheeley, second Amanda Melvina Carr and third Julia Latimer. Miss Carr was a daughter of John Pace Carr and a half-sister of Nancy Warren (Carr) Kennon Goree, third wife of Brother Goree’s father, Eli; Nancy Warren (Carr) Kennon Goree was the widow of Xenophon Kennon of Newton County, Georgia.
Another daughter of John Pace Carr, Frances Martha Carr, married Madison D. Cody, one of the earliest member of The Mystic Seven at The University of Georgia in 1847 and a relative of Kappa Deuteron Brother Emmett Cody.
He was a son of Eli Goree, one of the pioneer citizens of Walker County, Georgia.
CAREER: Churchill Goree, after leaving The University of Georgia, taught school and was a school principal in his hometown of LaFayette, Walker County, Georgia. Later, Goree studied law and was for many years a very well-known figure in legal circles in the Southeast.
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CODY, GOREE AND KENNON FAMILIES AND THEIR KAPPA DEUTERON CONNECTIONS
There is a Phi Gamma Delta connection between the Carr, Goree and Cody families as well as the Kennon family.
Kappa Deuteron Brother Emmett Cody was a son of David Columbus Cody and grandson of Lawson Cody of Warren County. Lawson Cody’s brother was Jeptha Melton Cody. Jeptha Melton Cody married first Missouri Eliza Cheeley, second Amanda Melvina Carr and third Julia Latimer. Miss Carr was a daughter of John Pace Carr and a half-sister of Nancy Warren (Carr) Kennon Goree, third wife of Brother Goree’s father, Eli; Nancy Warren (Carr) Kennon Goree was the widow of Xenophon Kennon of Newton County, Georgia.
Another daughter of John Pace Carr, Frances Martha Carr, married Madison D. Cody, one of the earliest member of The Mystic Seven at The University of Georgia in 1847 and a relative of Kappa Deuteron Brother Emmett Cody.
