Obituary of William Robert (Bill) Ogden, of Spearsville, Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 8/2004

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OBITUARY OF WILLIAM ROBERT OGDEN (7 July 1852 - 28 Dec 1942)
             of Spearsville, Union Parish Louisiana

From the Farmerville "Gazette" issue of 31 December 1942, page 1

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Last Rites For W. R. Ogden, Sr. Held Tuesday  

Last Rites for W. R. Ogden, Sr., 90, who died at the home of his son, J. R. Ogden, 
of Lillie, last Sunday, December 28, at 8:30 AM, were held at Spearsville at 3:00 
PM Tuesday, December 29, conducted by the Rev. R. W. Rhodes.

Interment was in the Spearsville cemetery, with the Kilpatrick Funeral Home, of 
Farmerville in charge of arrangements.  The deceased was stricken with a heart 
attack about a week before his death.  He had been a resident of that section of 
Union parish for forty-three years.  He was a native of Arkansas. 

Surviving are two sons, J. M. Ogden and J. R. Ogden of Lillie, two daughters, 
Mrs. W. L. Rockett and Mrs. Joe Templeton, both of Lillie, and one sister, 
Mrs. Mary Geter[sic], of El Dorado, Ark.  Twenty-six grandchildren and twenty-nine 
great-grandchildren also survive.


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Comments:

William Robert Ogden (7 July 1852 - 28 Dec 1942) was the son of Isaac Nathaniel 
Ogden (1822 - 1877) and Elizabeth J. Blanks (1832 - 1891). He was born in 
southern Union County Arkansas, south of Hillsboro. The Ogdens had arrived in south 
Arkansas very early, in 1816 or 1817, whereas Bill Ogden's maternal grandparents, 
William Ezekiel & Temperance Riley Blanks, had married in Greene County Georgia 
in 1831 and arrived in the Hillsboro vicinity about 1841 via Perry County Alabama. 
In early 1864, when only boy of eleven, Bill Ogden joined the Confederate service 
in the place of his father Nathaniel Ogden, who poor health prevented military 
service. He served in Company F, 5th Regiment Louisiana cavalry, reportedly 
driving delivery wagons in the provision department near the Ouachita River 
at Monroe. 

On 8 April 1875, Bill Ogden married Sarah Ann Elizabeth (Liza) Breazeal (also 
spelled Breazeale, Brazeal). Between their marriage and 1899, they lived at 
various times north of Spearsville near Liza's relatives and in southern 
Union County Arkansas near the farm of Bill's widowed mother, Elizabeth J. 
Blanks Ogden. However, in 1899, Bill and Liza Ogden moved for good to 
Spearsville. 


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