Adaline McGrew

Notes:

Wynema McGrew noted that she appears to have married first an Odam/Odom. Ester McGrew Hardin speculated that Adaline was visiting some MEANS relatives in DeWitt County and met the Odams who lived nearby.

Bettye Bragg Wagstaff informed me that Mary Fisher mentioned a possible connection between the Odom Family and the Blackburn/McGrew family. On the LDS family group sheet, an Odom is listed as a possible husband of Adeline McGrew. In Sabine County in 1850, the Odom family lived nearby both the John and Harriet (McGrew) Partin family and the family of of John Wooldridge Allen and Caroline (McGrew??) Allen. In 1835, there is an Odom living near the William Means family (whom according to Blanche Toole, was the first sherriff of Sabine County). William Addison Means was married to Francis Amelia Blackburn, the sister of Elizabeth Blackburn McGrew. He was also a member of the Congress of the Republic of Texas in both 1843 and 1845 from DeWitt County.

The Means family moved from Sabine to DeWitt County, taking along with Frances (Tyner) Blackburn, who died in Gonzalez, TX ca. 1853. The Odom families do not appear again on the Sabine County census after 1850.

Hardin also found a later marriage record, showing that on 3 Sept 1870 in Robertson County, Texas, Adaline married Miles KELLY. Hardin may be conflating two different families, however. A very large Miles and Adeline Kelly family can be found in Robertson county on the 1880 federal census. However, the Adeline who was enumerated with Miles Kelly in 1880 was younger (born ca 1845 versus 1838), born in Georgia vs. Mississippi, and Mulatto versus White.