Submitted by Rick O’Dell

On the left is Samuel Hubbard Odell and to the right his wife Martha Alice Haynes.  These are my paternal great-grandparents.  Some information  about them and the picture:

The photo was made circa 1907 in front of  their house.  The abandoned remains of the house are about 200 yards from the Hickory Grove United Methodist Church.

Samuel Hubbard Odell, was  born on May 2, 1870.  He was a son of Felix Lewis Odell (1833-1911).   Samuel preceded his aged father into death by less than a  year.

Martha Alice Haynes, was born on March 18, 1894.  She was  the daughter of Reverend Andrew Jackson "Jack" Haynes.  Following Samuel's death she remarried Robert Lanham and moved to Charleston where she continued to live until her death on January 9, 1927.  She is buried  next to Samuel in the Hickory Grove United Methodist Church.

My great grandparents' marriage produced three children:  Eva Odell, who was  born and died on Christmas Day, 1898; Emory Reginald Odell (1902-1953);  and James H. Odell (1905-1980).  Eva is buried in a marked grave  at the Dixon Chapel Cemetery.  My grandfather, Emory Reginald, and his  brother James are buried near their parents and great-grandparents (Felix Lewis Odell and Christina Nutter "Tena" Dorsey) in the Hickory Grove United Methodist Church cemetery.

An interesting fact.  My  great-grandparents donated the one acre parcel of land on which the Hickory Grove United Methodist Church was built.  On the front of the Church is it's  consecration date, October 7, 1910.  Now for the irony -- my great-grandfather died of tuberculosis on October 6, 1910.  According to his obituary, his funeral was the first service held in the Church

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