When Caroline O'dell was born on 25 December 1871, in Danby, Jefferson, Missouri, United States, her father, James Odell, was 37 and her mother, Sarah Jane Weaver, was 31. She married David Patterson McClenahan on 16 September 1899, in Commerce, Scott, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Jackson Township, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Plattin, Jefferson, Missouri, United States in 1910. She died on 29 July 1915, in Plattin Township, Jefferson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Festus, Jefferson, Missouri, United States.
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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