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Odom/Odam Slave Research Notes - Georgia
Submitted by: Vera Moore
March 2006
My Great-Great-Great-Great Grandmother was Caroline ODOM who
was born into slavery about 1813 in Georgia. On the 1870
Census of Putnam County, Georgia, she was age 57 living with my
Great-Great-Great Grandparents Ebin (Edwin on census) and Jeanette
BURNEY. A woman by the name Nancy BROWN, age 70, born
Georgia was also in the same household. I suspect Ebin
BURNEY
born 1834 was Caroline’s son and was likely last owned by one of the
6 Burney slave owners in next-door Jasper County. It is still
unknown who Nancy BROWN was. Eben and Jeanette had the
following children by 1870:
1. Silory (a girl) b. 1856 (Silvie/Silvey), corrected on 19 Aug.
2004. Source Peggy Billerman.)
2. Ella (my Great-Great Grandmother, married Silas MOORE) b.
1859
3. Jefferson , b. 1861
4. William, b. 1867
5. Carrie (twin), b. 1869
6. Addie (twin), b. 1869
There is evidence, though not verified that Ebin had brother or
cousin Charles BURNEY in Jasper County, and a possible
brother of Caroline named William BURNEY
, both lived in Jasper County in 1870 Gooslby District and
were neighbors. Eben, Charles and William all named a daughter
Carrie/Caroline and Addie/Adaline. . In 1870 Jasper County
there was a Ridda BURNEY living with William; she was
105 years of age born in VA. By 1880 Charles BURNEY is
back in Putnam County with his wife Georgia Ann and children.
Between 1870 and 1880 Ebin and Jeanette moved to Jasper
County, and there they were enumerated in the 1880 Census.
They lived two doors from there son-in-law and daughter Silas and
Ella (BURNEY)
MOORE. Silas and Ella had 12 children and 2 children died
before 1880. Eben and Jeanette’s last child was born in 1873,
he was named James. Ella’s Grandmother Caroline ODOM
was living with them; she was age 66. Caroline died before
1900, probably before 1890.
Boykin
Bennett ODOM is the last slave owner of Caroline ODOM.
He was born 1818 in Georgia and died 17 Dec. 1886 in Putnam County..
His parents were Winborne ODOM and Mary BENNETT
both of North Carolina. They moved to Putnam County, Georgia
in 1817. B.B. ODOM was a slave owner in Putnam County
from 1840 through emancipation. He was listed as the only
ODOM (or variant) slave owner on the 1850 and 1860 Georgia Slave
Schedule in Putnam County. In the 1840 Census, he shows having
31 slaves. Boykin’s father Winborne ODOM was listed on
the 1820 Census of Putnam County, with wife, a son and daughter
under age 10, and 27 slaves. Caroline was one of his
slaves, and when Winborne died in 1826 she among other slaves
were inherited through his estate . The widowed Mary BENNETT
ODOM married again on the 14 May, 1827 to Isham W. SHERLING/SHIRLING
in Putnam County. |
