Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....OGLETREE, WILLIAM T. 1834 - 
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Author: S. Emmett Lucas, Jr.
WILLIAM T. OGLETREE, farmer, Carrollton, Carroll Co., Ga., son of Absalom and 
Matilda (Stewart) Ogletree, was born in Monroe county, Ga., in 1834. His 
paternal grandparents were William and Martha (Bird) Ogletree. His grandfather 
was born in Virginia in 1764, and came to Georgia and settled in Wilkes county 
about 1784, and was married in 1785. When he came to the county it was a 
wooded wilderness, and he suffered all the trials, hardships and privations 
incident to pioneer life. He was the Daniel Boone of Wilkes county. Mr. 
Ogletree's father was born in Wilkes county in 1811 where he was reared on a 
farm, but at the age of twenty he entered the ministry and continued in it 
through life: His mother was born in Oglethorpe county, Ga., and was the 
daughter of Thomas and Nancy (Russell) Stewart, early settlers of the county. 
Her father was a farmer and lived to a good old age. Mr. Ogletree's mother, 
eighty years old, is still living. Mr. Ogletree was reared on the farm in 
Oglethorpe county and received a good common-school education in Monroe 
county, Ga. After receiving his education he taught school awhile. In 1861 he 
enlisted in Company F. (Capt. D. J. Bailey, afterward Capt. Andrews, Capt. 
Bailey
having been elected colonel), Thirtieth Georgia regiment, which was assigned 
to Gen. Mercer's command. He participated in some of the most hotly-contested 
battles of the conflict. Among them: Jackson, Miss., and Chickamauga, where 
his brigade opened the fight; Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, New 
Hope church and in nearly every engagement from Resaca to Atlanta. He was 
wounded at Peachtree creek, Atlanta which compelled him to retire for two 
months. On his recovery he hastened to rejoin his command, with which he 
remained until Dec. 16, 1864} when he was captured at Nashville and sent to 
Johnson’s island and held until the close of the war.  On his release he came 
to Spalding county, Ga., where he remained until 1881, when he removed to 
Carroll county and settled where he now lives. He had to begin anew after the 
war, and in the battle of life has been as courageous and true as he was on 
the tented field, and has done well. Mr. Ogletree was married in 1859 to Miss 
Cordelia Colbert (born in Spalding county), daughter of Albert G. Colbert, 
descendant from the early emigrants from Ireland to this country. One child 
only, Wilbur S., has blessed this union. Mr. Ogletree is a member of the 
Christian church and his wife is a member of the Methodist church. While 
living in Spalding county before the war he served as a justice of the peace. 
Mr. Ogletree is one of Carroll's most substantial,  as well as one of its most 
highly esteemed citizens, to whom his neighbors are attached because of his 
kindly nature.


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