Biographical Sketch of William C. Odell, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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William C. Odell, a successful farmer and stock raiser of Union Town-
ship, Wright County, Mo., was born in Pulaski County of that State in
1837, and is the son of Samuel and Mary L. (Devashier) Odell, and the
grandson of Enoch Odell, who was born in Virginia, and who was an old
soldier in Jackson's War.  He married and lived in Tenn., and was the
father of three sons and five daughters.  He moved to Missouri, where
he died.  The paternal great-grandfather was a native of Virginia. 
The Odell's were of Irish descent, and the Devashiers were of German,
Grandfather Devashier coming from Germany.  Samuel Odell was born in
White County, Tenn., October 30, 1800, and attained his growth in his
native state.  He was married in White County, Tenn., to Miss Cynthia
Walker, who bore him seven children.  They afterward moved to Illinois,
but six years later moved to Missouri, locating in Pulaski County, and
lived on the Osage Fork of the Gasconade until 1881, when he received 
his final summons.  He was one of the pioneers of this section of the
country.  His second wife, Mrs. Mary L. (DeVashier) Odell, was born in
Maury County, Tenn., in 1815, and died in December, 1888; she became 
the mother of nine children by her marriage, eight of whom grew to 
manhood.  Abraham, one of the sons, was a Federal soldier, and was 
killed in the battle of Pleasant Hill, La.  William Odell was married 
in 1858 to Miss Mary Randolph, who bore him eight children: James S.,
Enoch B., Mary A., wife of Thomas Colton; A. F., a young man, who has
not attained his majority, but who weighs 203 pounds, and has traveled
all over the United States; Isaac, Jacob, Billy and Cynthia.  Mr. 
Odell was a member of Company B, Forty-sixth Missouri Infantry, and
received his discharge at Springfield, Mo.  He is a successful, enter-
prising farmer, and is the owner of 200 acres of land.  He is a member
of the Missionary Baptist Church, is a member of the Masonic fraternity
and is a Democrat in his political views.
 
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