Ancestry of
Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Hunter, Pony Express Rider and Showman

William Frederick Cody

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Isaac Cody 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Ann Bonsell Laycock   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Feb 1846 
  • Birth Location:
  • LeClaire, Scott, Iowa 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Jan 1917 
  • Death Location:
  • Denver, Colorado 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Lookout Mountain Park, Golden, Jefferson, Colorado 
  • Notes: 

  • aka Buffalo Bill

• Marriages for William Frederick Cody

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  • Spouse:
  • Louise Maude Frederici
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1866

• Sources for William Frederick Cody

  • ¹ Federal Census, IA, Scott County, 1850, Dist. 4, Image 113 of 143.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/29/2015).
  • ³ Bill, Buffalo, An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody), New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Incorporated (1920).
  • ⁴ Cody, Ernest William and Ella Jean Cody, The Cody Family Association Directory 1952: Descendants of Philip and Martha at Beverly, Massachusetts 1698, London, Ontario: Unknown (1952), 61.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 94.
  • ⁶ Russell, Don, The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press (1960), 5.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Buffalo Bill", (accessed 10/31/2013).