Odell (Barber) Consford (1909 - 1990)

Born 1909 in Florida, United States

Ancestors

Daughter of [father unknown] and Annie Leola (McCullough) Barber

Wife of Otho Lee Consford — married 23 Mar 1924 in Holmes, Florida, United States

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Biography

Notes

Odell was Annie McCullough's first child, born before she married Chesley Barber. Chesley is not Odell's biological father. This is proven by DNA evidence. A descendant of Odell's is a match with a descendant of Odell's sister Oneta, who is the daughter of Chesley. They do not share any matches on Chesley's side of the family and they have an impossibly low number of centimorgans for their relationship to be full cousins. It is therefore established that Odell's father was not Chesley, and also not someone closely related to Chesley.

Odell's earliest record (the 1910 Census) has her surname as Barber, but it is very likely that she had a different Last Name at Birth, because her mother did not marry Chesley until she was at least a year old.

Sources

• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Odell's private granddaughter and the private daughter of Odell's half-sister Annie Oneta Barber. Their MRCA is their grandmother/great-grandmother, Annie Leola McCullough. They share 115 cM across 9 segments. Half 1st cousin 1x removed probability: 26%.

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNB6-TYH : 14 December 2015), Odel Barker in household of C D Barker, Poplar Head, Washington, Florida, United States; citing sheet 3B, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,232.
• Florida, County Marriages, 1830-1957, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWQ3-C5Y : accessed 16 May 2017), Otto Cousford and Odell Barber, 23 Mar 1924; citing , Holmes, Florida, United States, State Archive, Tallahassee and clerk of courts, various counties; FHL microfilm 931,296.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:STS4-FZM : accessed 16 May 2017), Odell Consford in household of O L Consford, Moores Mill, Holmes, Florida, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 15, sheet 4B, line 64, family 72, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 318; FHL microfilm 2,340,053.
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