Individual Notes
Note for:   Amanda A. O'Dell,   ABT 1832 - 15 Feb 1895         Index

Individual Note:
     BURIAL: Mt. Zion Cemetery Walcolt, Arkansas. No marker on grave.

LETTER FROM SUSAN GRIFFITH TO WANDA J. O"DELL on 4 Mar 1987: See father Nicholas O'Dell for complete letter.

CENSUSES: 1880 Census for Poland, Greene, Arkansas : 237/236 Amanda A., age 48, female, white, born South Carolina.

MARRIAGE: Did not find their marriage record in Alabama Marriages from 1809-1969 on Ancestry on 10 Feb 2007.

Individual Notes
Note for:   John Lamb,   1770/1780 - AFT 1850         Index

Event:   Carried a musket at Brandywine and Bunker Hill
     Type:   Revolutionary War Service
     Place:   Brandywine and Bunker Hill

Individual Note:
     AMERICAN REVOLUTION: Came form Scottland settled in North Carolina, carried a musket at Brandywine, Bunker Hill.

NEED TO CHECK: On the IGI, located several JOHN LAMBs, Male. One has following information:
    Birth: 19 DEC 1779 Bush River Mm, Newberry, South Carolina
    LDS Ordinances:
    Baptism: 13 MAY 1950
    Endowment: 04 MAR 1955 IFALL
    Sealing to Parents: 11 NOV 1955 IFALL
    THOMAS LAMB / SARAH
    Parents:
     Father: THOMAS LAMB Family
     Mother: SARAH
    Submitted for LDS Temple ordinances.
Source Information: Batch Number: 7318419, Sheet: 73, Source Call No.: 0822852 Type: Film

Individual Notes
Note for:   Ross Houston,   1770/1780 - BEF Jul 1850         Index

Birth Note: Source:    AFN ZRON-7J gives him born 1780-1784 in Newberry, S.C., and died before 26 Jan 1850 in Lauderdale Co., Alabama.

Death Note: Source:    The will and inventory of Ross Houston, dated 15 July 1848, makes William R. Houston the administrator and gives as legatees names in final settlement Mary Houston, widow; William R. Houston; James Houston; heirs of David Houston; Anny Houston; Rebecca Houston; children of Jane Indman; and Mary Houston. Will probated Dec 1850.

Individual Note:
     CENSUS: 1840 census age puts his birth between 1770 and 1780.

NOTE: Susan Lamb Griffith notes that Ross Houston, Sr., was a son of John Houston and Mary Ross (of Tyrone Co., Ireland) who came to S.C. and later moved to Williamson Co., TN. Ross Houston, Sr., was a brother to David Houston who married Hannah Pugh Reagan and also lived in Lauderdale Co., AL.

DEATH: Will dated 1850 and probated Dec 1850 in Lauderdale Co., AL.

CHILDREN: Children's names listed in his will, marriage records, and census records.

OCCUPATION: A successful farmer of Huntsville, Alabama. An early immagrant of America.

Individual Notes
Note for:   Mary Ann McCrackin,   1785/1788 - BEF Apr 1868         Index

Individual Note:
     1850 Census: Lived with son William who was head of household in Greene Co., Arkansas.

1860 Census: Widow Mary lived with James and Rebecca Lamb in 1860 census of Greene Co., AR. Ann and Rebecca Houston, her daughters, married two Lamb brothers, John and James, and moved to Arkansas.

Individual Notes
Note for:   Nicholas O'Dell,   ABT 1814 -          Index

Individual Note:
     SOURCE: Source for Nicholas and his children: a letter to ERL from O. Patrick Sisler 2 Oct 1969.

RESIDENCE: Resided in Rome, GA.- all children were probaly born and raised there. Only 2 children moved to Arkansas: William Calvin O'Dell and Amanda O'Dell Dacus.

LETTER FROM SUSAN GRIFFITH TO WANDA J. O'DELL on 4 Mar 1987: . . . I was thrilled that you had run across a "Nicholas O'Dell". In your letter you referred to the estate settlement of Thomas O'Dell. In your letter you referred to the estate settlement of Thomas O'Dell, deceased 1936 [sic, corrected to 1836]. . . The reason is that I have never seen the name "Nicholas" O'Dell written or printed anywhere. I was beginning to think that he never existed. To say this must sound strange but it is family "tradition" that the father of my Amanda O'Dell Dacus was a Nicholas O'Dell but I had never found a Nicholas or "Nick" in all of my O'Dell researching.
        Here is what little I do know about this supposed Nicholas O'Dell. He was said to have been born in South Carolina where his daughter Amanda A. O'Dell Dacus was born but then moved to Georgia around Rome, Georgia. His children were suppose to have been William Calvin, Jackson, Harrison, Amanda A., and Eliza. I have not been able to find a Nicholas O'Dell in S.C. or Ga. I'm enclosing a pedigree chart which lists back to his daughter, Amanda A. who married Pascal L. Dacus. . .
        My Amanda A. O'Dell was said to have married in Alabama to Pascal L. Dacus about 1848 but I have not been able to find a marriage record for them. Also I have not been able to find them listed in any 1850 census of Al., Ga., or Ar. In the 1850 Census of Cherokee Co., Al. the (sic) were several of the brothers and parents of my Pascal L. Dacus, but he and Amanda were not there. They are in Greene Co., Ar. by the 1860 Census, though. In the 1850 Census of Cherokee Co., Al. there was a James O'Dell family , Rignal O'Dell family and a Rignal O'Dell Jr. family which I feel must be related to my Amanda O'Dell Dacus but I haven't been able to make the connection. . .

CENSUSES:
1850 in Cherokee Co., Alabama are found James, p. 117, Rignal, p. 117, and Renal, Jr., p. 118.