Eli Wodell

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.

Eli — Lydia Tripp. Lydia died Feb 1861. [Group Sheet]