Eli Wodell

1805 -

• Name	Eli Wodell
  Birth	12 Jul 1805	Westport, MA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I24646	Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Wodell,   b. Jun 1783
  Mother	Elizabeth Soule,   b. Abt Mar 1787, Westport, MA d. 11 Dec 1881, New Bedford, MA (Age 94 years)
  Marriage	3 Feb 1805  [2]
  Family ID	F09231	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lydia Tripp   d. Feb 1861
  Family ID	F09232	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2018

  
  

• Notes

  According to Eli's biography, his father was "a very bad man," a "sad miserable drunkard" who gambled and abused his family. He characterizes his mother as a good woman and a good mother who endured her abusive husband for 45 years. He and his wife separated/divorced and he later remarried and his second wife hanged herself. Eli was accused of murder but eventually was acquitted. He was a declared atheist and a very mixed-up man, admitting to his propensity for women that got him in trouble, according to his memoirs in the book he wrote on the Wodell family.

  
  

• Sources

  [S013956] Eli Wodell, Genealogy of a Part of the Wodell Family, from 1640 to 1880, 72. [S013808] Eli Wodell, Genealogy of Part of the Wodell Family, From 1640 to 1880, (1880), 31.