Enoch Odle/Odell was born 19 Mar 1776 in the Shenandoah Valley of Colonial Virginia to Samuel Odell and Elizabeth Job. Enoch's father is believed to have been one of the first settlers of the Cosby Creek Valley in the 1780's, an area that lies against the mountain range that became the western border of North Carolina and the eastern border of Tennessee. The region was originally a part of North Carolina, but later became Greene County, Tennessee. It was here that the famous frontiersman, Davy Crockett, was born in 1786, around the time that Samuel Odell arrived.
Enoch married Catherine Pryor, likely a daughter of Joseph Pryor, 22 Aug 1799 in Greene County, Tennessee. Enoch later served in the War of 1812 with Andrew Jackson. He moved to White County, near Green Spring on the Caney Fork of the Cumberland River, possibly on bounty land given to him after the war. Enoch eventually moved their family to Macoupin County, Illinois and later to Wright County, Missouri.
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| Marriage of Enoch Odle and Catharine Pryor, 1799 Source - ancestry.com ➚ |
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