Taliaferro-Wilkes County GaArchives Biographies.....Ogltree, Asbury F.  1811 - January 1884
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Asbury F. Ogletree was the forth child of and the first of three sons born
to Littleton and Sarah Ogletree, who had a total of eight children.  Asbury
was born on the family plantation in the County of Wilkes on November 18,
1811 and married on January 30, 1832 to Sarah Meadows, daughter of Ransom
and Sarah Meadows.  This same year Asbury was awarded a 40 acre lot on the
Ogeechee River.  When Sarah passed away in the summer of 1836 he lived alone
on this land and helping his father attend his water powered grist Mill in
the 606 and 607 districts.  A year after Sarah's death Asbury married,
Martha Ann Thompson, my third great grandmother on September 21, 1837.
Martha Ann was the daughter of Samuel and Priscilla Thompson.
 
Asbury's father Little Ogletree was said to have the close neighbors; the
first being Rev. Herman Mercer, first surveyor for Taliaferro County, son of
Rev. Silas and Dorcas Green.  The second neighbor was Joel Mercer.  Upon his
death Littleton awarded his son Asbury and his children; John, Thomas,
Priscilla Ann and Elizabeth this family land near the present day Hwy 22.
In the 1820 census Littleton's land was holding a water-powered grist Mill.
An 1/4 acre lot containing a school house adjoining Joel Mercer was also deeded
to the Family on February 01, 1842. (Joel Mercer's grand father William
Janes gave the majority of the land given for the establishment of the City
of Crawfordville.  Joel served in the Confederate Army, but was discharged
due to poor health.  Joel served in the Confederate Army, but was discharged
due to pour health.)
 
My second grandmother Priscilla Ogletree, Asbury's eldest daughter and her
first husband Solomon were Asbury's neighbors.  Priscilla married on October
12, 1857 to Solomon, son of John and Margaret Lunceford.  Solomon later
passed away and Priscilla married on March 06, 1870 to William Cosby Dorsey
Edwards, my  second great grandfather.  Grandpa William or Bill known to
others was the son of Priscilla's Aunt Julia and Uncle Etheldred Edwards.
 
In the summer of 1842, Asbury F. Ogletree along with his wife Martha Ann owned 
and operated a grist Mill near here on the North Prong of the Ogeechee River, 
upon his death his first born son Arthur took  over the above stated Mill in 
the year of 1884.  I located a record in the Taliaferro County Court House 
that stated Arthur's brother James Redmond Ogletree began construction of the 
bridge crossing the North prong of the Ogeechee River near John R Moore Mill, 
one mile down stream from Arthur's Mill.  As stated in the document: James 
Redmond Ogletree as principal and Charles Lucas and William Cosby Edwards as 
securers are held and bound unto the Board of County Commissionaires and there 
successors in office in the sum of Two hundred dollars for the true payment of 
which we bind ourselves our heirs and signs jointly and severally  firmly by 
these presents sealed with our Seals and dates this May 6th 1882.  This bond 
was recorded June 19th 1882.
 
Before operating the Ogletree Mill under his name Arthur Coss Ogletree, tenth 
child born on June 30, 1849 to Asbury and Martha Ann Ogletree married on 
December 18, 1873 to Rebecca Jane Moore.  Jane or Jannie was one of the 
daughter of John Robert Moore, owner of the Moore Mill located on the South 
prong of the Ogeechee River.  Jannie was identified as the wife of Arthur 
Ogletree when her father John R. Moore on March 28, 1887 awarded Jannie 100 
acres of the Moore Land located on the Ogeechee River.  Jannie died 1925; 
Arthur died in 1927, a year  before, the water- powered grist Mill on the 
North prong of the Ogeechee River, seven and one half miles from Crawfordville 
that was completely destroyed by high water as stated in the Advocate Democrat 
on August 15, 1928.
 
The water mark was higher that it had been in forty years.  It was a sight 
that those who saw it will long remember, especially when the Mill and all 
that was in it floated down river.
 
In the same article, Mr. William Ingram, one or the oldest residents also 
stated that the Ogletree Mill was over 108 years old and was operated by the 
late Arthur Coss Ogletree. 

Additional Comments:
Special Thanks goes out to Wiley Bruce Jones, Advocate Democrat, M. Browning, 
and the Taliaferro County Historical Society.

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