Oder / Öder*

Leonhard Öder (age 46), a farmer from Neulußheim, and his wife Maria Eleonora (age 49) arrived in the city of Schleswig on 17 March 1761. They swore allegiance on 24 July 1761. They were dismissed as colonists in May 1763, but remained with his son-in-law Johann Peter Knaus. [See Knaus Family.]

They returned to Neulußheim. Johann Leonhard Eder [sic] (age 49), a teacher (Schulmeister), and his [new] bride Maria Weibel Margaretha (age 33) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 4 September 1765. They have not been located among the Volga German colonies.

Their daughter Anna Barbara, her husband Johann Peter Knaus, and their daughters (Susanna Christina & Anna Maria) settled in Kratzke on 8 May 1767 and are recorded in the 1767 census of Kratzke in Household No. 48.

Both the Eichhorns and the 1765 Worms list record that Leonhard Öder came from the German village of Neulußheim.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Öder family among the Volga German colonies.