40. BENJAMINE7 ODELL (BENJAMINE6, SAMUEL5, SAMUEL4, WILLIAM WOODHULL3, WILLIAM2, RICHARD1) was born August 1771 in Shenandoah Valley, VA, and died May 28, 1840 in Cocke Co., TN. He married MERIUM MARY 'POLLY' MCKAY. She was born August 11, 1780 in Cocke Co., TN, and died January 16, 1850 in Cocke Co., TN.
Notes for BENJAMINE ODELL:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/odell/messages/1748.html
In Ruth Webb Odell's bk "Over the Misty Hills, the Story of Cocke Co TN" is this:
pg 122 - JEREMIAH Odell, son of Samuel, fought in the War of 1812 and was wounded on 9 Nov 1813. He moved to Saline Co, MO and gave 15 acres of land on which to found the county seat, Marshall. With him, Bartholomew Guin went from Cocke Co To MO. His wife was Elizabeth Guggey. (Note, I am not sure if Mrs Odell meant she was the wife of Jeremiah or Bartholomew.
Another quote: "pg 122...The three O'Dell families that ventured into the territory before it was known as Cocke Co TN were Samuel (who married Elizabeth Job), Isaac (married Abigail Mansfield) and later moved to Ray Co MO, and Benjamin (who married Mary McKay).
pg 120: "The southern O'dells are related to Samuel, Isaac, and Stephen O'Dell, sons of William O'dell 2nd and Sarah Vowels of Rye, Westchester Co, New York. In 1730, the 3rd generation became attracted to the Shenandoah Valley of VA by land grants.
I strongly suggest that if you are researching the early TN Odell/Odle families that you read Mrs. Odell's book. She begins the family with Isaac bc 1749 born in New York, thence to the Shenandoah Valley of VA, then to what is now Greene Co TN and thus to Cocke Co TN. It is a difficult book to follow but more TN Odell data than you will find any place else.
Regards, Bettye bettyjps@netzero.net
Thanks to Ann (Jobe)Brown ann@personainternet.com for the following infomation that she posted to the Internet;
http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ajobebrown&id=I18585
ID: I18585
Name: Merium Mary 'Polly' MCKAY
Sex: F
Birth: 11 AUG 1780 in French Broad River, Cocke Co., Tennessee
Death: 16 JAN 1850 in French Broad River, Cocke Co., Tennessee
Note:
In the church records she appears as Polly.
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1839 -Tax List Cocke Co. Dist. 6
-Benjamin (145 acres of land - 15 school lands) and several of sons listed
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Sources:
1) ) Cocke County, Tennessee Big Pigeon Church Minutes 1787 - 1874
per: http://www.rootsweb.com/~tncocke/BPM1.htm
2) <http://www.rootsweb.com/~tncocke/1839f.htm> - 1839 Cocke Co., TN Tax List
Children of BENJAMINE ODELL and MERIUM MCKAY are:
i. PHOEBE8 ODELL, b. 1803, Cocke Co., TN.
Notes for PHOEBE ODELL:
Living w/brother;
http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7667&iid=TNM653_1244-0257&fn=David&ln=Odell&st=d&ssrc=&pid=19013753
1860 TN Census - Cocke Co. - P.O. Newport
Enumerated June 6, 1860
Dwelling 40/Family 41
Odell, David - HOH, age 47, b. TN Farmer
A. - brother - HOH, age 42, b. TN Farmer
Febe - sister, age 57, b. TN
Nancy - sister, age 55, b. TN
ii. NANCY ODELL, b. 1805, Cocke Co., TN.
Notes for NANCY ODELL:
Living w/brother;
http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7667&iid=TNM653_1244-0257&fn=David&ln=Odell&st=d&ssrc=&pid=19013753
1860 TN Census - Cocke Co. - P.O. Newport
Enumerated June 6, 1860
Dwelling 40/Family 41
Odell, David - HOH, age 47, b. TN Farmer
A. - brother - HOH, age 42, b. TN Farmer
Febe - sister, age 57, b. TN
Nancy - sister, age 55, b. TN
iii. LEWIS ODELL, b. 1807, Cocke Co., TN.
Notes for LEWIS ODELL:
Married Nancy [Unknown].
iv. WILLIAM ODELL, b. 1808, Cocke Co., TN.
v. DAVID ODELL, b. September 26, 1811, Cocke Co., TN.
Notes for DAVID ODELL:
http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7667&iid=TNM653_1244-0257&fn=David&ln=Odell&st=d&ssrc=&pid=19013753
1860 TN Census - Cocke Co. - P.O. Newport
Enumerated June 6, 1860
Dwelling 40/Family 41
Odell, David - HOH, age 47, b. TN Farmer
A. - brother - HOH, age 42, b. TN Farmer
Febe - sister, age 57, b. TN
Nancy - sister, age 55, b. TN
vi. JOB ODELL, b. 1812, Cocke Co., TN.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/u/i/Mary-k-Guinn/GENE1-0023.html#CHILD40
