Constant Oglesby (~1786–Dec 1837)

This line is poorly researched. Findagrave shows his birth date as 1740.

See: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kywebste/families/oglesby.htm

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All data came from an LDS-AF entry. Constant is not named in the bibles or wills of his parents or siblings. All other children are mention in the Douglas Register, but no Constant.

My great-great-great grandfather was Constant Oglesby Sr., who was born about 1748 in Goochland County, Virginia. He married Nancy Coursey, a daughter of William Coursey, date and place unknown. Constant Oglesby Sr. moved on - first to Albermarle County, Virginia, where he appears on the 1782 tax list; then to Edgefield County, South Carolina, where he is listed on the 1790 census. In 1804 he sold his land in South Carolina, probably with the idea of moving to Kentucky. In 1804 and 1805 he is not on the tax lists of Christian County, Kentucky, but his son, Jacob Oglesby was listed there in 1806. On July 8, 1807, Constant Oglesby got a land grant of four hundred acres (in what is now the Apex Community), overlooking Pond River on what is now State Road 189. In 1810 Constant Oglesby Sr. is listed as a resident of Hopkinsville, Kentucky as a shoe cobbler, although this listing could be that of his son, Constant Oglesby Jr, who would have been twenty-two years old at that time. Constant Oglesby Sr died in late 1837 or early 1838 as his estate was appraised January 8, 1838 and sold February 2, 1838. His unmarked grave lies in a cluster of trees overlooking the Pond River Valley.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~kywebste/families/oglesby.htm

Family Notes:

According to family history, it was too hot and too dry in SC and they moved to Christian Co., KY in 1803. As you go from Greenville, KY on Hwy 189, after crossing Pond River into Christian Co., on top of a hill is a house on the left - just a little off the road. Constant lived behind that house near a spring; at last account, it is still owned by direct descendants through Jacob, son of Constant. On the right is a clump of trees, this is where Constant & Nancy are supposedly buried. A wee bit south of that, at Apex, an old road crosses going out to Natural Rock Bridge. That road was supposedly the Red Banks Trace (Henderson, KY). Nancy, daughter of Constant, was the first white woman to cross the natural rock bridge.

Constant Oglesby’s family is buried on a hill above Pond River, Hwy 62. His wife Nancy is buried near a clump of trees with sandstone markers and a wire fence. (Also noted is that it is Hwy 189 and that nothing is left but sandstone rocks.)

1803 - about when he moved to Christian Co. (per Jo Brown).
8 Jul 1807, Constant was appointed a constable in Christian Co.
8 Jul 1809, he was granted 400 acres on Pond River (near Apex) on the Greenville Hopkinsville Road.

Nancy was listed as Anny on a deed of 1789.

Many of the Oglesby’s are buried in the Oglesby Cemetery at White Plains, Hopkins Co., KY, but there are also other Oglesby cemeteries — at least one other in Christian Co. and one in Logan Co.

*** LINE NOT PROVED *** All data came from an LDS-AF entry. Constant is not named in the bibles or wills of his parents or siblings. All other children are mention in the Douglas Register, but no Constant.

^NOTE: Additional information on this line received 970526 from CRO.

!REFN LDS-AF; CRO.

JQ has birth as 1748. Jacob would only have been 12-14 at that time.17