Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Odom, Abram August 1 1894
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Columbus Daily Enquirer-Sun  Aug. 2, 1894
      MR. A. ODOM DEAD

THE CITY SEXTON PASSES PEACEFULLY
            TO HIS REST.

   At 5 o'clock yesterday City Sexton Abram Odom breathed his last at his home
on Hamilton Avenue.  This sad announcement will cause great regret, for Mr. Odom
was a good man and was greatly liked throughout the city.  It was known all
yesterday that the end was rapidly approaching, and many sympathizing friends
called at the family residence to inquire the condition of the aged sexton and
express their sympathy for the sorrow-stricken family.
   Mr. Odom's death resulted from a stroke of paralysis which was visited upon
him a few days ago.  Mr. Odom was sixty-seven years of age, and had been the
sexton of the city cemetery for about twenty years.  He has been faithful in the
discharge of his duties, and was always ready and willing to give information,
and otherwise assist those who had sad duties at the cemetery.
   Mr. Odom was a Christian man, and he has gone to meet a Christian's reward. 
He was an exhorter and a steward of the Rose Hill Methodist church.  His wife
and nine children survive him.  They have the sympathy of their many friends in
their very great bereavement.
   Mr. Odom was a member of Creek Tribe No. 11, I.O.R.M.  The funeral will occur
from the Rose Hill Methodist church at 3 o'clock this afternoon.  Creek Tribe
will attend the service.
   A funeral notice appears in this issue of the Enquirer-Sun.

Additional Comments:
Abram Odom is the son of Abraham Odom, Sr., who is buried in Nix Family Cemetery
in Columbus, GA.  He had a brother William Odom, who lived in Columbus and is
buried in the Patrick Cemetery in Columbus.  Another brother John L. Odom lived
in Columbus until after the Civil War, and then John moved to Hopkins County,
Texas where he is buried in Gafford Chapel Cemetery.  Abram also had a sister 
Mary Susan Odom, who married Robert B. Green.  In 1910, she was living 

in Bridgeborough, GA, Worth County.
Abram Odom's first wife was Eliza Ann English.  She is buried in Linwood
Cemetery.  Abram's second wife was Sarah E. Duncan.  They married Nov. 2, 1868.
 She died January 24, 1932 and is buried next to Abram in Linwood Cemetery.

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