Silas Mercer Oden was born 1815 in Tennessee and died 1866. He married Mary A. Tucker on March 9,1841 in Lauderdale county, Alabama. She was born 1825 and died 1860. They had 7 children.
4. Lydia M. Oden was born 1845 in Mississippi.
5. George W. Oden was born 1847 in Mississippi
6. John Henry Oden was born 1849 in Arkansas and died 1906.
7. Eleanor E. Oden was born 1851. She married Unknown Pickett