Meriwether County GaArchives Biographies.....J.F. Ogletree  1840 -  Unknown
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Author: Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 1895

Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895
Pages 517-518

J. F. Ogletree

J. F. Ogletree, an agriculturist of Meriwether county whose success has been 
almost phenomenal, and whose life has been full of vicissitudes, is a native 
of the county, born in 1840, and is the son of Philemon and Eliza A. (Glynn) 
Ogletree.  The former was born in Wilkes county in 1792, served in the Indian 
war of 1836, and moved to Meriwether county in 1839.  He was an earnest 
preacher of the gospel as well as a successful farmer, and was of Scotch 
descent, his father, William Ogletree, having accompanied his own father, 
William Ogletree, the elder, when he came from Scotland to America in 1750.  
They settled first in Virginia, but soon made their home in Wilkes county, 
Ga., being among the earliest pioneers, not only of the county, but of the 
state.  The younger William served in the war of the revolution and married 
Miss Elizabeth Bird.  The wife of Philemon Ogletree was a daughter of William 
and Elizabeth (Crawford) Glynn, the latter a sister of William H. Crawford, a 
man eminent in the early annals of the state, and indeed throughout the south, 
being upheld throughout this region as the presidential candidate in the 
exciting election of 1824, when because no candidate had a majority of the 
electoral votes, the choice of president was referred to the house of 
representatives, and John Quincy Adams was chosen.  J.F. Ogletree received his 
early training in the country school, but later attended Bowdon institute, 
from which he was obliged to return because of his father’s failing health.  
In June, 1862, Mr. Ogletree enlisted in Company F, Forty-first Georgia 
regiment, under Capt. A.D. Abraham, and later with Capt. S.D. Clemens.  His 
service during the war was irregular.  It was at this period of his life that 
misfortunes came most thickly upon Mr. Ogletree.  The war not only freed his 
Negroes, but through it he lost three-fourths of his large estate; he had been 
considered the wealthiest man in the county, and about this time every 
building upon his place was blown down by a violent gale.  Nevertheless by 
vigorous and persistent effort he has been able to recover himself, and is 
again one of the wealthiest and most highly esteemed men in this region.  He 
engaged in mercantile business at LaGrange in 1870, but after two years 
returned to his farm; this is an immense plantation of some 2,000 acres of 
rich and highly cultivated land surrounding his lovely country residence.  
Beside this he owns a large stock farm of some 8,000 acres in southwest 
Georgia, on the Flint river.  A part of this large tract he has devoted to 
horticulture, in which he is greatly interested, having a thriving peach 
orchard of 10,000 trees.  In 1862 Mr. Ogletree married Miss Caroline Stinson, 
a daughter of J.W. and M.L. (Jackson) Stinson, the former a North Carolinian 
who settled in Meriwether county in 1820, where, in 1842, his daughter 
Caroline was born.  She was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church south, and she died Jan. 19, 1870.  In 1871 Mr. Ogletree married Miss 
L.E. Stinson, whose parents were M.F. and M.A. (Hardaway) Stinson.  Mr. 
Stinson came from his native state, North Carolina, to settle in Baker county 
early in the century, and his wife was a daughter of G.W. Hardaway, of Warren 
county, Ga., a Virginian by birth, who was a second cousin of George 
Washington.   Mrs. Ogletree was born in Troup county in 1852.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Ogletree are the parents of five children: Philemon, James F., Caroline M., 
George S. and Paul H.  The parents are both members of the Methodist Episcopal 
church south and the family holds a position of influence and honor in the 
community.  Mr. Ogletree is also a well-known mason.



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