Family oral tradition is that Ocey Avinger was named in honor of Chief Osceola out of family sympathy for mistreatment of American Indians at the time of her birth, which was during the expansion of settlement in the American West.
She was the sixth child of Daniel Avinger and his second wife, Caroline Elizabeth Thompson.
O. Avinger. US Federal Census. Year: 1870; Census Place: Vances, Orangeburg, South Carolina; Roll: M593_1506; Page: 364B; Family History Library Film: 553005.
Osa I. Avinger. U. S. Federal Census. Year: 1880; Census Place: Vances, Orangeburg, South Carolina; Roll: 1237; Page: 397A; Enumeration District: 155
Ocey I Dukes. U. S. Federal Census. Year: 1900; Census Place: Vances, Orangeburg, South Carolina; Page: 1; Enumeration District: 0074; FHL microfilm: 1241538
Oci Dukes. U. S. Federal Census. Year: 1920; Census Place: Vance, Orangeburg, South Carolina; Roll: T625_1705; Page: 18A; Enumeration District: 75
Ocey I Dukes. U. S. Federal Census. Year: 1930; Census Place: Vance, Orangeburg, South Carolina; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0048; FHL microfilm: 2341942
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Osceola is 29 degrees from Herbert Adair, 24 degrees from Richard Adams, 22 degrees from Mel Blanc, 28 degrees from Dick Bruna, 18 degrees from Bunny DeBarge, 36 degrees from Peter Dinklage, 19 degrees from Sam Edwards, 19 degrees from Ginnifer Goodwin, 22 degrees from Marty Krofft, 19 degrees from Junius Matthews, 19 degrees from Rachel Mellon and 21 degrees from Harold Warstler on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.