William O'DELL

                   FROM HOLSTON PASTFINDER DEC 1983 - HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE LUTHERN CHURCH FROM "HISTORIC SITES OF SULLIVAN COUNTY" 1980 EDITION  "ODELL HOUSE" "THOMAS ODELL, SON OF WILLIAM ODELL, INHERITED THIS 100 ACRES AND ACCORDING TO THE 1850 SULLIVAN COUNTY CENSUS OWNED 2000 ACRES OF LAND IN THE COUNTY.  ABLE J. BROWN, AT HIS FUNERAL DECLARED "AS A HUSBAND, HE WAS AFFECTIONATE AND KIND, AS A NEIGHBOR, OBLIGING, AS A PARENT, DEVOTED AND TENDER, AS A FRIEND, FAITHFUL, AND AS A CITIZEN, LOYAL" THERE ARE FAMILY STORIES OF WHEN HE ATTENDED COURT AT JONESBORO, ONE STORY OF A TIME WHEN ANDREW JACKSON WAS PRESIDING. THOMAS ODELL WAS A GREAT HUNTER AND KEPT A HUNTING CAMP ON HOLSTON MOUNTAIN."

FROM A 1992 LETTER FROM WILMA SMITH CONCERNING THE BUILDER OF THE ODELL HOUSE FROM "HISTORIC SITES OF SULLIVAN COUNTY" QUOTED UNDER WILLIAM O'DELL #4231 - " THIS IS INCORRECT. SADLY THIS LOG HOUSE IS BEING TORN DOWN.  I TRIED TO BUY IT. IT WAS BUILT IN 1809 BY MY ANCESTOR THOMAS ODELL, SON OF WILLIAM AND MARTHA (MORRELL) ODELL."
                  

                   HOLSTON PASTFINDER DEC 1983 - HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE LUTHERN CHURCH FROM "HISTORIC SITES OF SULLIVAN COUNTY" 1980 EDITION "(JOHN) SEVIER'S FIRST TENNESSEE HOME SITE; JOHN SHELBY'S FORT SITE; CAWOOD'S FORD"
       "JOHN SHELBY OWNED NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY ACRES ALONG THE NORTH SIDE OF THE HOLSTON RIVER RUNNING FROM ABOVE KEYWOOD'S (NOW THOMAS) CREEK DOWN TO NEAR THE SUGAR HOLLOW ROAD, HAVING RECEIVED THIS GRANT FROM GEORGE THE SECOND, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE AND IRELAND, KING AND DEFENDER OF THE FAITH.****UNDER THE SEAL OF OUR SAID COLONY (COUNTY OF AUGUSTA) THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF AUGUST ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY SIX.  LATER THIS LAND BECAME THE CAWOOD PLANTATION--MAIL WILL STILL BE DELIVERED ADDRESSED TO 'CAWOOD'S FORD, TENNESSEE.'
       AGATHA CAWOOD'S SON SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT. HIS MOTHER HADN'T DIED WHEN HE SOLD TO JOHN MCGARY THIS LAND -- WITH ALL PRIVILEGE OF OWNERSHIP, TO BUILD, CUT WOOD, MINERAL RIGHT, AND THE LAND TO BE COMPLETELY MCGARY'S AT HIS (CAWOOD) MOTHER'S DEATH.  WE KNOW THAT MCGARY HAD AT LEAST ONE SON (MCGARYS STILL LIVE DOWN THE ROAD) AND HE HAD 2 DAUGHTERS: MARY AND ANNE BECAUSE THEY MARRIED TWO ODELL BROTHERS.  ANNE AND WILLIAM ODELL BECAME THE PROGENITORS OF NUMEROUS PUBLIC OFFICIALS, BORN ON THIS PROPERTY, MAGISTRATES, SHERIFF, STATE REPRESENTATIVE.  THE LAST SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE FROM SULLIVAN COUNTY, HOM. JOHN EDWARD O'DELL JR. WAS BORN HERE.  WILLIAM ODELL, ONE OF THE MEN WHO BROUGHT THE VIRGINIA-TENNESSEE RAILROAD TO THIS SECTION ALSO WAS BORN HERE.  CAWOOD'S SHELTERED MANY STRONG WOMEN.  ONE COMES TO MIND, AMNER MILLARD ODELL, WIFE OF ANDREW ODELL.  HE LEFT HIS WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN TO FIGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR AND WAS LAST HEARD OF AS A PRISONER OF WAR AT CAMP DELAWARE."
                  

                   HOLSTON PASTFINDER DEC 1983 - HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE LUTHERN CHURCH PERHAPS THE FOLLOWING STORY FROM "HISTORIC SULLIVAN" P. 156N IS ABOUT THIS DANIEL O'DELL.  " WITH THE ADVENT OF NEW METHODS OF BUSINESS THE OLD TIME CREDIT SYSTEM, WHERE MAN TRUSTED MAN, HAS ALMOST DISAPPEARED.  AN EXAMPLE OF THE OLD WAS MAY BE FOUND IN A TRANSACTION THAT TOOK PLACE IN HOLSTON VALLEY, BETWEEN DANIEL ODELL AND JOHN THOMAS.  THEY WERE FRIENDS AND CATTLE TRADERS. NOTHING WAS THOUGHT OF EITHER BORROWING FROM THE OTHER LARGE SUMS ON MONEY WITHOUT EVEN GIVING A RECEIPT.  BUT AS TIMES CHANGED THIS MANNER OF DOING BUSINESS WAS CONSIDERED CARELESS AND THEY AGREED TO GIVE NOTES.  THE QUESTION THEN AROSE AS TO WHICH SHOULD KEEP THE NOTE.  FINALLY ODELL SAID TO THOMAS:'YOU GOT THE MONEY; YOU JUST KEEP THE NOTE SO YOU'LL KNOW WHEN TO PAY IT BACK.'"