Court records indicate that Jacob was appointed deputy sheriff by his brother, Sheriff Richard Oglesby, in March 1826. He became a member of the Kentucky legislature in 1829 and a colonel in the militia. 410

Isabella Watson and Jacob Oglesby, both of Scottish descent, came to Kentucky from Virginia. After following other pursuits, Jacob Oglesby became a farmer in Kentucky where he was a man of some influence, representing his county two terms in the legislature of that state. The profit of his farm enabled him to live comfortably with his large family of eight children until 1833, when the cholera, which swept through the country at that time, bereft the young family of both father and mother, a brother Woodford and a sister Isabella. Afterward in 1836 the youngest daughter Sarah died at the age of six years, in Illinois. Robert, the youngest son, six years old at the time of his parents' death, died at the age of twenty-one, after a year's service in the Mexican war. The death of the parents in early maturity left the young family, two sons and four daughters, totally unprovided for. 411

Date: 7/12/02 8:18 PM
From: Faith Burgess Tannehill, Urolypoly@aol.com
To: Joe M. Oglesby, JOglesby@aol.com

hi joe how are you today. what i have found out about the governors father is he had 8 children isabella , sarah ,robert, woodford, richard,amanda, ophelia,and another sister don't have name but married james f. wilson. jacob. isabella his wife ,woodford, and little isabella, died from cholera. sarah died at age 6, robert died at 21 in the spanish american wars .richard moved to his uncle willis in decatour, ill. and later went to live with his sisters. could you tell me who jacobs other brothers were i know one is willis but i dont know who the others are. now did the govenors sons have an children. joe in a letter you wrote emmas sons name was richard (dickey) oglesby but in a letter you wrote to roberta hussie you have richard (dicky)oglesby as the govenor. and hat you discovered two irritating characteristics of the family tree i hope i am not the irritating characteristics.