When he died in 1850, Philip Cody was, according to an April 8, 1937 Plain Dealer article written by S. J. Kelly, buried with his wife Lydia in the cemetery of the "old" Congregationalist Church located on Euclid Avenue near East 105th Street. When the Alhambra Theater and other commercial buildings went up on Euclid Avenue near East 105th in the early twentieth century, the cemetery was closed and Arthur Cody, one of Philip and Lydia Cody's great grandsons, according to the Kelly article, arranged for their remains to be removed and re interred at East Cleveland Township Cemetery. The records of that cemetery indicate that their bodies are still buried there. However, for many years their gravestone was at Lake View Cemetery near other Cody family graves. It is somewhat of a mystery as to how that occurred. In 2019, the East Cleveland Township Cemetery Foundation reached an agreement with Lake View Cemetery Foundation regarding the gravestone.
In 2020 it was returned to East Cleveland Township Cemetery. The above photo of the gravestone was taken there in July 2020. It now waits to be set above the graves of Philip and Lydia Cody.
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