Alice was the daughter of Oliver Perry Davis who was a big landowner in the area. The Wimsett Cemetery is in the area where the community was actually called Opeedee. My mother who died in 2008 at 90 was from Newport and always referred to it as Opeedee.
Alice was first married to Civil War veteran Simon Odekirk who died in 1884. She then married Albert Greenwood and moved to New Hampshire but returned to Indiana. In later years on Census reports she started using initials D.O. that I assume stood for Davis Odekirk. They were put on her stone.
Below information received May 6, 2020
Alice D.O. Greenwood contributed poems to The Indianapolis News. "To a Brown Thrush Singing in the Rain" (March 16th, 1904) and "Down the Road to Opadee" (May 20th, 1904) and to a publication entitled: An Indiana Publication for Indiana People.
Contributor: Jim Simon (49225415)
Alice was first married to Civil War veteran Simon Odekirk who died in 1884. She then married Albert Greenwood and moved to New Hampshire but returned to Indiana. In later years on Census reports she started using initials D.O. that I assume stood for Davis Odekirk. They were put on her stone.
Below information received May 6, 2020
Alice D.O. Greenwood contributed poems to The Indianapolis News. "To a Brown Thrush Singing in the Rain" (March 16th, 1904) and "Down the Road to Opadee" (May 20th, 1904) and to a publication entitled: An Indiana Publication for Indiana People.
Contributor: Jim Simon (49225415)
Alice was the daughter of Oliver Perry Davis who was a big landowner in the area. The Wimsett Cemetery is in the area where the community was actually called Opeedee. My mother who died in 2008 at 90 was from Newport and always referred to it as Opeedee.
Alice was first married to Civil War veteran Simon Odekirk who died in 1884. She then married Albert Greenwood and moved to New Hampshire but returned to Indiana. In later years on Census reports she started using initials D.O. that I assume stood for Davis Odekirk. They were put on her stone.
Below information received May 6, 2020
Alice D.O. Greenwood contributed poems to The Indianapolis News. "To a Brown Thrush Singing in the Rain" (March 16th, 1904) and "Down the Road to Opadee" (May 20th, 1904) and to a publication entitled: An Indiana Publication for Indiana People.
Contributor: Jim Simon (49225415)
Alice was first married to Civil War veteran Simon Odekirk who died in 1884. She then married Albert Greenwood and moved to New Hampshire but returned to Indiana. In later years on Census reports she started using initials D.O. that I assume stood for Davis Odekirk. They were put on her stone.
Below information received May 6, 2020
Alice D.O. Greenwood contributed poems to The Indianapolis News. "To a Brown Thrush Singing in the Rain" (March 16th, 1904) and "Down the Road to Opadee" (May 20th, 1904) and to a publication entitled: An Indiana Publication for Indiana People.
Contributor: Jim Simon (49225415)
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