This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Martin O'Dell Clark Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XNB.2ACI/463.1.2 Message Board Post: Charles Ross, who began collecting info on Ray Co. pioneer families decades ago, visited with my great-grandma, Louetta Clark O'Dell Rowland, and her sister-in-law Sarah Jane Rowland Clark and wrote up this account in his unpublished work on the O'Dell family: "Mrs. Louetta (Clark) Rowland of Orrick, Mo., born Sept. 30, 1877 adds this information on July 21, 1948. "Sarah (Tarwater) O'Dell was my mother-in-law and I knew her well. Her 2nd marriage was to Wade Hampton Martin of the Union Church neighborhood about 5 miles northwest of Orrick on June 5, 1864. They had 2 children, Zona and John..."" (Grandma Lou went on to tell of Zona's marriage, etc., and her own marriage to Tom O'Dell, 21 Sep 1897, and about their honeymoon trip to meet his family) ""...we loaded the buggy and drove to Brookfield, Linn County, MO., about 60 miles east and a little bit south of Pattonsburg. His mother, Sarah (Tarwater) O'Dell, lived there and was then married to Wade Hampton Martin. That was the first time I met my mother-in-law..."" Is this the same Wade Hampton Martin? From Grandma Lou's account, it would seem he and Sarah married in '64 and were still married in '97. In light of this, I don't understand the marriage of Wade Hampton Martin to Mary Sutton 12 Oct 1875. Can you shed some light?