Brief Life History of Ann Jenett
When Ann Jenett Odell was born on 10 March 1846, in Michigan, United States, her father, Harris Walter Ward Odell, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Sloan, was 24. She lived in Amboy Township, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States in 1850. She died in 1847, in Fort Laramie, Goshen, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Anginette Odell in household of Harris W Odell, "United States Census, 1850"
- Ann Jenett Odell, "Find A Grave Index"
- Ann Jenett Odell, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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1847 · Moving the State Capital
The capital of Michigan was moved from Detroit to Lansing on March 17, 1847. The capital was moved to be further away from Canada, to encourage settlement and boost economy toward the inner regions of the state, and to make to capital more accessible to everyone statewide.
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Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
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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