When Nellie Odell was born on 2 March 1863, in Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Alfred O'Dell, was 41 and her mother, Julia Van Giesen, was 37. She married James Noble Davis on 9 October 1879, in Lancaster, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Saunders, Nebraska, United States in 1870 and Chapman Township, Saunders, Nebraska, United States in 1880. She died on 21 February 1889, in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in Weston Cemetery, Weston, Saunders, Nebraska, United States.
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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.
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