Malinda Jennifer O'Day ¹

   Other names for Malinda were Jennie Malinda O'Day ² and Jennie Malinda O'Dea.^{2 3}

   FamilySearch ID: 9S4N-M72.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1880 in Mount Pleasant Twp., Labette, KS. ⁴ The 1880 census recorded Omer Rittehouse, 35, born in Virginia, with wife Malinda J., 17, born in Ohio. Theywere living with daughter Carrie, 0, born in Ohio.

2. Census in 1900 in Springfield, Greene, MO. ² The 1900 census recorded Jennie M. Rittenhouse, 37, born in Ohio, living with daughter Leona, 15, born in Kansas. Jennie had given birth to 4 children and 3 were still living in 1900. Jennie's father was born in Maryland and her mother in Ohio. Leona's father was born in Virginia.

3. Census in 1910 in Roswell, Chaves, NM. ⁵ The 1910 census recorded living at 809 N. Pennsylvania: Harold P. Black, druggist, 27, living with wife Leona, 24, and mother-in-law Malinda J. Rittenhouse, dressmaking - sewing, 46. Harold and his parents were born in Missouri. Leona was born in Kansas, her father in Virginia, and mother in Ohio. Malinda and her mother were born in Ohio, her father in Maryland. Leona had been married for 4 years and birthed 1 child no longer alive in 1910. Malinda had birthed 4 children, 3 alive in 1910.

Malinda married Omar Rittenhouse on 10 Oct 1878 in , Madison, OH.¹ (Omar Rittenhouse was born about 1844 in , Harrison, WV ⁴.)