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JOHN ODELL, retired farmer, P.O. Centreville, was born in Rensselaer County, N.Y., March 14, 1800. He came to Springfield, Erie Co., Penn., in 1824, and to this county in 1835, settling in Rome Township, and here married Almira Peck, who died at the expiration of about a year and a half, leaving one son, Burton. Our subject was then married to Lydia, daughter of Dr. Silas Taylor, and who died in 1850, leaving six children, viz.: H. Banning, Silas, William, N.W., Amanda (deceased wife of Mr. Strong), and Phebe, now Mrs. Keyes. Our subject subsequently married Marinda, daughter of William and Sibyl Pierce and widow of Levi W. Bosworth, by whom she had one daughter, Sibyl, now married to Banning Odell. Mr. Odell is one of the oldest pioneers of Rome Township, and although eighty-four years of age is hale and hearty, with almost unimpaired faculties. He and his estimable wife are living on their pleasant homestead, enjoying a peaceful old age.
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