C. R. Oglesbee

As printed in 1882

C. R. OGLESBEE, farmer, P. O. Wilmington, was born in Liberty, Clinton Co., Ohio, June 18, 1843. Ilis father was Daniel Oglesbee, a native of Virginia, who located in Clinton County in 1817. Mr. Oglesbee’s grandparents were John and Sarah (Tump) Oglesbee, also natives of Virginia. Ilis mother was Delilah Huffman, a native of the “Old Dominion,” and of German parentage. Mr. Oglesbee grew to manhood in this county, where he has resided all his life. He is Democratic in politics, and the owner of 100 acres of good land. Tie was married, in 1875, to Rebecca A., daughter of J joshua and Jane M. ( Myars ) Haines, early settlers of this county. They have three children — Eric J., Oscar L. and Edward D. Mrs. Oglesbee is a member of the Society of Friends.

WILLIAM E. O’NEAL (deceased) was born near Newberry Court House, S. C., December 29, 1804. His parents were William and Mary (Elmore) O’Neal, natives of South Carolina, he of Irish and she of Welsh descent. Our subject at the age of eight years came to Ohio with his parents who settled at Waynesville, arriving on the second Saturday of November, 1812; the father died in 1819.. Mr. O’Neal received such training in the common branches as the schools of his day and neighborhood afforded, and learned the trade of a shoemaker, which occupation in connection with his farming he followed the greater part of his life. In 1828, he was united in marriage with Anna Swain, who died within two years from that time, and on the 7th of May, 1835, he was married to Mary Ann, daughter of Robert and Mary (Jackson) Miskeley, the latter a near relative of the late Gen. Stonewall Jackson. The wife of our subject was born in Gloucester County, N. J., not far from Philadelphia, August 13, 1810, and in 1819, with her parents emigrated to Ohio, stopping at Cincinnati, and in the spring of 1820 removed. to Waynesville. Her parents died, the father, October 3. 1833. in the forty-fourth year of his age, and the mother, February 24, 1877. in her ninety-first year. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. O’Neal resided in Montgomery County. Ohio, for one year, then removed to Indiana and remained six years, when they returned to Ohio, and four years lived near Dayton, then came to Clinton County, where the former died, November 9, 1877. They were the parents of the following-named children: James

B., George M., Isaac C., Sarah A., Nat, S. and Mary J. The four sons all served in the war of the late rebellion, and three of them laid down their young lives in the cause of the Union, and the remains of one to-day rest beneath a Southern sun in an unknown grave. James B. was a member of Company B, Fortieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died at Ashland, Ky., March 15, 1862. George M. was in the same company and regiment, and died at Camp Dennison, Ohio, Decembers, 1863; Isaac C. was in the Second Regiment, Ohio Heavy Artillery, and was drowned in the Holston River, near Knoxville, Tcnn., June 6, 1865; and Nat S. was a member of Captain J. Q. Smith’s company of Squirrel Hunters.

As printed in The history of Clinton County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, cities, towns, etc.; general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.