ODELL, Susan Minerva (Fields)
Date of death: 23 Mar 1891 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 27, 1891,
Volume XXXI Number 40, page 5 column 2
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Mrs. Susan Odell, died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Fleming Smith, on Monday night at the age of sixty-nine years. The funeral took place Wednesday morning, the services being conducted by Rev. E. S. Gardiner, of the First Baptist church, of which deceased was a member.
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Link to Susan Minerva (Fields) Odell’s grave
Notes: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920 page 148, referencing Book H-16, page 23, records that Susan M. Odell, a 68 year old white female, died 23 Mar 1891 in Franklin.
Indiana State Library Genealogy Database; Marriages through 1850 records that John Odell married Minerva Fields on 24 Sep 1844.
The 1850 US Federal Census for Brandywine, Shelby County, Indiana records thirty-four-year-old, North Carolina-born John Odell, his twenty-five-year old, North Carolina-born wife Minerva Odell and their Indiana-born daughters, two-year-old Mary J and new-born Nancy A Odell.
The 1870 US Federal Census for Brandywine, Shelby County, Indiana records
twenty-nine-year-old, Indiana-born Fleming Smith, his twenty-year-old, Indiana-born wife Nancy Smith, their three-year-old, Indiana-born daughter Ida Smith, and Fleming’s forty-five-year-old, North Carolina-born mother-in-law Manerva [sic] Odell.
The 1880 US Federal Census for Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana records fifty-two-year-old, Indiana-born Fleming Smith, his thirty-year-old, Indiana-born wife Nancy Smith, their Indiana-born children, twelve-year-old Ida Bell, nine-year-old Mary M. E., seven-year-old Charles, four-year-old John D., and two-year-old Luther Smith and Fleming’s fifty-six-year-old, North Carolina-born mother-in-law Susan M. Odell.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson