When Nancy Emeline O'Dell was born in 1863, in Illinois, United States, her father, William Martin Odell, was 38 and her mother, Mary Miller, was 33. She married William Robert Rusher about 1902. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Bois d'Arc Township, Montgomery, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Brushy Mound Township, Macoupin, Illinois, United States for about 20 years. She died about 1963, at the age of 101, and was buried in Brushy Mound Township, Macoupin, Illinois, 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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