Quoted from the "History of Decatur and Macon County," by E. T. Coleman [Review Pub. Co., 1929], as published in the "Decatur Review" newspaper:

"Abraham Lincoln (sic: RJO?) says in his "Reminicenses": After the death of Uncle Richard Oglesby we took his wife to live with us at this place (over the store which stood in the northeast corner of Lincoln Square), She was a kind, Christian woman, esteemed by all.'" [Decatur Review, May 14. 1929]

Obituary in the Decatur "Weekly Review," 30 May 1878:

Mrs. Judith Oglesby was born near Culpepper Court House, in the State of Virginia, Nov. 13, 1795. She was one of a family of ten children, five sons and five daughters, given to Adam Snyder and his wife, and Mrs. Oglesby was the last one of this large circle to pass from the shore of earth. In the year 1810 Adam Snyder, with his family, moved from Virginia to the state of Kentucky, settling in Oldham county. Here on Sept. 9th, 1813, Judith Snyder was united in marriage with Richard Oglesby. To them were born six children, one daughter and five sons; the daughter and one son have awaited their mother's coming, in the better land, from their early childhood. The four sons who grew to man's estate all passed from the scenes of time years ago; one of these gave his life to our country; for the maintenance of national union and in defense of the inalienable rights of man he fell at Shiloh.

In 1836 Mrs. Oglesby came, with her husband and children, to Illinois, and lived in Decatur from that date to the time of her decease. It is thus seen that she belonged to the early settlers of our now fair heritage, whose numbers death is so rapidly decimating. Her brain was ever busy and her energies were active in the pioneer toils of those early days in that preparatory work which was the basis of our civilization, with its manifold blessings. And herein is that saying true, One soweth and another reapeth; other men and women labored and we are entered into their labors.

Her husband died in 1839, three years after their coming to this place, her widowhood thus reaching back through nearly forty long years. She made the Good Confession of her faith in Jesus Christ as her Savior in 1839, and was baptized by Elder Robert Foster, thus becoming a member of this church. Her christian fellowship was not a matter of fleshly inheritance or superstition, born of ignorance or conventionalism, but the result of rational and living faith in Christ, a well-founded hope in God, and an unfaltering reliance upon His promises. These things sustained her in all the hardships and trials through which she passed in her long life. In the last conversation that I had with her in referring to the Scripture that I had just read, she said, "That good word of God has been my source of hope through many, many years." What a life was her's! so full of kindness, sweetness, thankfulness and joyousness. I would to God that all of ours were as true copies of the Master's as was her's . As we contemplate it today how transcendently glorious the reflection that she rests with God!

At the conclusion of the services at the church the remains were taken to Greenwood Cemetery for interment, whither they were followed by a large concourse of citizens.

Six Children, one daughter, five sons:
Benjamin F <1815>
Warner <1818>
Willis <1817>