Dragging Tree
Cadet
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2020
- Location
- Spring, Tx.
JOHN 'Jack' ODLE son of SAMUEL ODLE and NANCY DALTON was born on 12 Jun 1824 in Overton Co., TN. He died on 21 Jan 1913
Deceased was a member of Totten's Company of Rangers and had enough thrilling encounters with the Indians to fill a volume. He participated in the battle of Dove Creek near San Angelo, which was perhaps, one of the greatest pitched battles ever fought with the Indians in Texas, and it was fought in 1865, in the dead of winter, between a thousand or more Indian warriors armed with rifles and several hundred whites, principally Bosque county citizens similarly armed. He was also in the Confederate service and was stationed at Galveston.
Deceased was a member of Totten's Company of Rangers and had enough thrilling encounters with the Indians to fill a volume. He participated in the battle of Dove Creek near San Angelo, which was perhaps, one of the greatest pitched battles ever fought with the Indians in Texas, and it was fought in 1865, in the dead of winter, between a thousand or more Indian warriors armed with rifles and several hundred whites, principally Bosque county citizens similarly armed. He was also in the Confederate service and was stationed at Galveston.