Daniel O'DELL

                   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.'"