Oglesby Family Research - Person Sheet
Oglesby Family Research - Person Sheet
Birth09 Feb 1867, Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky
Death30 Apr 1955, Quincy, Florida Age: 88
BurialEastern Cemetery, Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia
MemoDAO? Has Oak Hill Cemetery
OccupationPolitician
RelationshipWilliam’s brother, James, married Kate’s sister, Mabel.
RelationshipWoodson & James are descendants of Richard Oglesby & Susannah Ware; Kate & Mabel are descendants of Thomas Oglesby of Virginia. Relationship of Richard & Thomas unknown.
FatherMiller Woodson Oglesby (1819-1883)
MotherRebecca Ann Wight (1827-1921)
Spouses
Death21 Feb 1976, Cobb County, Georgia142 Age: 98
FatherZenas Wise Oglesby (1850-1915)
MotherLilla Moselle Leake (1855-1879)
ChildrenWoodson Ratcliffe
Leewood
Kate
UNNAMED (Stillborn) (1918-1918)
Notes for Woodson Ratcliffe Oglesby
Oglesby, Woodson Ratcliffe (1867-1955) Cousin of Richard James Oglesby. Served in the U. S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of New York state assembly, 1906; U. S. Representative from New York 24th Districk, 1913-1917.412
Notes for Woodson Ratcliffe Oglesby
Oglesby, Woodson Ratcliffe (cousin of Richard James Oglesby), a representative from New York; born near Shelbyville, Shelby Co., Ky., February 9, 1867; attended public schools, Kentucky Wesleyan College (then at Millersburg), and the Illinoois Wesleyan University at Bloomington; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1890 and commenced practice in New York City; served during the Spanish-American War as a private in Company C, Seventy-first Regiment, New York National Guard; member of the State assemblyin 1906; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1912; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1917); unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law in New York City until his retirememnt in 1928 and resided in Yonkers, N.Y., and Quincy, Fla.416