The seventh child of Constant Oglesby Jr., Gustavas Adolphus Oglesby, is my great-grandfather; he also settled in the Ortiz area in Webster County. He married Mary Elizabeth Shelton, the daughter of Josiah Cyrus Shelton, who had moved to Henderson County the first time when Mary Elizabeth was about six years old. The Shelton family stayed in Kentucky for awhile but they did not like it and moved back east. After awhile, they decided they had rather be in Kentucky and they moved back, coming over the Highland Lick road in Christian County, Kentucky, camping by a big spring, near what was then White Plains, located near the present day Fruit Hill. Gustavas and Stephen Oglesby happened by the Shelton's camp. The older Shelton girls were grown and quite attractive and the Oglesby boys decided to continue on with the Sheltons. In 1852, Gustavas Adolphus Oglesby married one of the younger Shelton girls, Mary Elizabeth, in Henderson County. They had eight children while living in Ortiz, with two others being born after a move to Union County.

Gustavas (Doc) Oglesby served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was a short man, five feet six inches tall, with fair complexion and blue eyes. During his period in the service, he was accidentally hit in the mouth by another soldier, knocking out his front teeth; he was awarded a pension for his injury.

Until Stephen Oglesby died in 1870, he and his brother Gustavas lived near each other. A year or so later, Gustavas was again on the move.

In 1872 when my grandfather, David Wilson Oglesby was four years old, the family moved from Ortiz near Mt. Lebanon Church between Dixon and Sebree across Highland Creek, to near where White Lick Creek runs into Highland Creek in Henderson County. In the 1880 census, the family was living in eastern Union County, not far from the Webster County line. A daughter was born October 1873, but she died in January 1874. Nothing more is known about this child but her birth and death are recorded in a family Bible. Another child, Floyd Thomas Oglesby, was born March 13, 1877; he married Merty Stone and they had two children.

David Wilson Oglesby, who was 104 years old when he died March 21, 1973, married Martha Whitledge, who died in 1942. They were the parents of eleven children, six of whom were still living in 1973. A 78-year-old daughter, Miss Lora Oglesby, died days after her father died, and they had a joint funeral service. Read the obituary of David Wilson Oglesby online and see his photo. He and his wife were buried at Odd Fellows Cemetery in Bordley, Union County KY.

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My father was Lester Oglesby, who was born in 1891. I am sending a photo of my dad and my granddad that was taken in 1954.

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