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- Odell
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: o-DEL [key]
From a surname which was originally from a place name meaning "woad hill"in Old English. A woad is a herb used for dying.
Source: Behind the Name, the etymology and history of first names
http://www.behindthename.com
Jones
English and Welsh: patronymic from the Middle English personal nameJon(e) (see John). The surname is especially common in Wales and southerncentral England. In North America this name has absorbed various cognateand like-sounding surnames from other languages. (For forms, see Hanksand Hodges 1988).
John
English, Welsh, German, etc.: ultimately from the Hebrew personal nameyo?hanan ‘Jehovah has favored (me with a son)’ or ‘may Jehovah favor(this child)’. This personal name was adopted into Latin (via Greek) asJohannes, and has enjoyed enormous popularity in Europe throughout theChristian era, being given in honor of St. John the Baptist, precursor ofChrist, and of St. John the Evangelist, author of the fourth gospel, aswell as others of the nearly one thousand other Christian saints of thename. Some of the principal forms of the personal name in other Europeanlanguages are Welsh Ieuan, Evan, Siôn, and Ioan; Scottish Ia(i)n; IrishSéan; German Johann, Johannes, Hans; Dutch Jan; French Jean; ItalianGiovanni, Gianni, Ianni; Spanish Juan; Portuguese João; Greek Ioannes(vernacular Yannis); Czech Jan; Russian Ivan. Polish has surnames bothfrom the western Slavic form Jan and from the eastern Slavic form Iwan.There were a number of different forms of the name in Middle English,including Jan(e), a male name (see Jane); Jen (see Jenkin); Jon(e) (seeJones); and Han(n) (see Hann). There were also various Middle Englishfeminine versions of this name (e.g. Joan, Jehan), and some of these wereindistinguishable from masculine forms. The distinction on grounds ofgender between John and Joan was not firmly established in English untilthe 17th century. It was even later that Jean and Jane were specializedas specifically feminine names in English; bearers of these surnames andtheir derivatives are more likely to derive them from a male ancestorthan a female. As a surname in the British Isles, John is particularlyfrequent in Wales, where it is a late formation representing Welsh Siônrather than the older form Ieuan (which gave rise to the surname Evan).As an American family name this form has absorbed various cognates fromcontinental European languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988.)It is used as a given name among Christians in India, and in the U.S. hascome to be used as a surname among families from southern India.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN0-19-508137-4
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Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
about Odell Jones
Name: Odell Jones
Date of Birth: 17 May 1944
Gender: Male
Birth County: Harrison
Father's name: J C Jones
Mother's name: Corealue Wilcox
Roll Number: 1944_0006
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: Texas. TexasBirth Index, 1903-1997. Texas: Texas Department of State Health Services.Microfiche.
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
about Odell Jones
Name: Odell Jones
Death Date: 2 Jun 1999
Death County: Dallas
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Texas Death Index, 1903-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: Texas Departmentof Health. Texas Death Indexes, 1903-2000. Austin, TX, USA: TexasDepartment of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit.
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1944 - 1999 (55 years)
