Screven County GaArchives Biographies.....Nicholas Odam 1827 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory@mchsi.com January 7, 2004, 6:19 pm Author: Author Unknown - Taken from Memoirs of Ga., Vol. II Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., page 826 Published by the Southern Historical Association in 1895 Nicholas Odam, farmer, Mobley Pond, was born in Screven County in 1827, and is the son of Bryant and Barbara (Strigler) Odam. The father was born in North Carolina and moved to Georgia at an early day. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and a well-to-do farmer. He died in Screven County at the age of one hundred and six. He married Barbara, daughter of Nicholas and Sarah (Bryant) Strigler. Nicholas Strigler was born and lived in Screven County, and his father was one of its earliest settlers. Nicholas served in the patriot army during the Revolutionary War. Nicholas Odam was reared a farmer boy and got his education from a few weeks’ schooling in the old field schools, and reading by the pine knot or tallow dip. He married Caroline Freeman, daughter of Gart Freeman, a well-to-do farmer of Screven County, and the union has been blessed with five children, now living: Georgia, William, Caroline, Virgil and Joseph. The mother was born in Screven County in 1827 and died in 1890. In 1892 Mr. Odam was married to Laura Littlefield, daughter of Samuel H. Littlefield. The latter was born in Massachusetts and moved to Georgia in 1842, where he engaged in farming and the mercantile business and accumulated considerable money. In 1845 he married Miss Martha C. Lovett, daughter of Thomas and Nancy Lovett. Mr. Littlefield and wife lived together forty years, and to them were born nine living children: Thomas, Laura, Susan, Annie, Charlie, Velera, Samuel, Julia and Louise. He died Jan. 24, 1883, and his wife, Martha, born in 1821, is still living. Mr. Littlefield served in the Confederate Army. Mrs. Odam was born in Georgia in March 1847. They are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and much respected for their Christian characters. In 1862 Mr. Odam enlisted in the Civil War, joining Company F., Fifth Georgia Regiment, under Capt. McCall, and engaged in the battles of Ocean Pond and Noon Day Church. At the battle of Griswoldville he was wounded. Mr. Odam started in life as a poor boy and began work on the farm, and now owns about 3,000 acres of land. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb