Elias ODEN

Submitter: Dan Williams

Husband: Elias ODEN
Born: April 4, 1802 Place: South Carolina
Married: December 1, 1822 Place:  
Died: November 1868 Place: Leon Co., TX
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Father: Thomas Bussey ODEN
Mother: Nancy HOWLE
Other Spouses: Rebecca LUSK

Wife: Chloe JONES
Born: May 15, 1803 Place: Cumberland Co., NC
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Father: James JONES
Mother: Mary TAYLOR
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Children:

1 Name: F Elizabeth ODEN
Born: October 1, 1823 Place: MS
Died: September 26, 1864 Place: Probably Leon Co., TX
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Spouse 1: Kinion HAWES
Married: September 5, 1839 Place: Probably Kemper Co., MS

2 Name: F Mary ODEN
Born: August 16, 1825 Place: MS
Died: April 28, 1879 Place: Leona, Leon Co., TX
Cemetery: Leona Cemetery Place: Leon Co., TX
Spouse 1: William Bryan RIGBY
Married: December 24, 1840 Place:  

3 Name: M James John ODEN
Born: March 12, 1828 Place:  
Died: November 11, 1899 Place:  
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Spouse 1: Mary WHITE
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Spouse 2: Martha Jane TINSLEY
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4 Name: F Nancy ODEN
Born: December 9, 1829 Place:  
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5 Name: M Thomas J. ODEN
Born: June 11, 1830 Place: AL
Died: April 9, 1882 Place: Leon Co., TX
Cemetery: Wheelock Cemetery Place: Leon Co., TX
Spouse 1: Carolina ELKINS
Married: 1851 Place:  
Spouse 2: Susannah ELKINS
Married: November 1865 Place:  
Spouse 3: Sarah Elizabeth LEE
Married: May 18, 1867 Place:  

6 Name: F Rebecca Ann ODEN
Born: December 22, 1830 Place: Kemper Co., MS
Died: June 22, 1906 Place: Leon Co., TX
Cemetery: Wheelock Cemetery Place: Leon Co., TX
Spouse 1: Albert John BARNETT
Married: June 6, 1849 Place: Kemper Co., MS

7 Name: F Martha Jane ODEN
Born: March 1, 1832 Place:  
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Spouse 1: HAWES
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8 Name: M Francis Marion ODEN
Born: December 31, 1836 Place: MS
Died: May 5, 1868 Place:  
Cemetery:   Place: Leon Co., TX
Spouse 1: Sarah Ann Rebecca COX
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9 Name: M Elias Jasper ODEN
Born: February 14, 1839 Place: MS
Died: March 30, 1878 Place:  
Cemetery: Oden Cemetery Place: Leon Co., TX
Spouse 1: Catherine "Katie" GILMORE
Married: August 24, 1865 Place:  

10 Name: M William J. ODEN
Born: December 9, 1840 Place: MS
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NOTES:
Elias was received into the First Baptist Church, Leon Co., TX, 1855.
He bought land in Leon Co., TX in December 1854.

Kinion Hawes (sometimes spelled Kinyon) died of Typhoid in MS followed, not long thereafter, by the deaths of his older brother and two daughters of his older brother of typhoid.  His older brother's wife took her surviving children back to North Carolina from where they had come.  Kinion's widow, Elizabeth, moved to Leon County with her parents and other family members in late 1854, bringing with her six children including the youngest who was born after Kinion's death.  Within 10 years she had also died.

The Odens lived around the Wheelock Creek area which was called Oden at that time.  There was even a post office.  Thomas J. Oden operated a grist mil and cotton gin powered by water from Wheelock Creek.

Francis Marion Oden was in the C.S.A with RUSSELL RIGBY and W.B. RIGBY from Leon Co., TX

Elias Jasper served in Co., D. 26th Texas DeBray's Regt. during the War of Northern Aggression.  He was a Mason.

The birth dates for Thomas J. Oden and Rebecca Ann Oden appear to be in conflict.  They are based on the dates on the grave markers in the Wheelock Cemetery, Leon Co.


SOURCES:
Linda Hawes
Antoinette H. Carlisle
Jason Gervase
Kemper Co., MS, tax rolls for 1834, 1835, 1837, 1839, 1842
Kemper Co., MS land rolls for 1848, 1854
Kemper Co., MS 1837 census
Kemper Co., MS 1850 census
Leon Co., 1860 census
Leon Co., 1880 census
Wheelock Cemetery, Leon Co.
Oden Cemetery, Leon Co.
Barnett Family Group Sheet by Albert C. BARNETT
T. J. Oden Family Bible
Leon Hunters Dispatch, Vol X, No. 1, Fall 1988
Cecil and Fay Parrish Smith
The Jacob Lee Family--Ancestors and Descendants
Henry Oden