Brief Life History of Dencie Rowena
When Dencie Rowena O'Dell was born on 30 July 1854, in Delta, Fulton, Ohio, United States, her father, Dr John Lincoln Odell, was 29 and her mother, Harriet Ellen Zimmerman, was 21. She married Wesley James Clizbe on 12 September 1877, in Fulton, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Ohio, United States in 1870 and York Township, Fulton, Ohio, United States in 1910. She died on 26 April 1928, in Delta, Fulton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Delta, Fulton, Ohio, United States.
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- Dency R Cliyby in household of John Odell, "United States Census, 1910"
- Denise R. Odell, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Dencie Rowena Planson, "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001"
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World Events (8)
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Odell, a place in Bedfordshire, which derives from Old English wād ‘woad’ (a plant collected for the blue dye that could be obtained from it) + hyll ‘hill’. The spelling O'Dell is not Irish, but a creation by folk etymology, found first among English migrants to Limerick. Compare Waddell . — Note: The population figure published by the US Census Bureau does not distinguish between the surnames O'Dell and Odell .
Altered form of Swedish Odell , as if of Irish origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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