One of the founders of the town of Auburn and what is now Auburn University.
He was the son of William Ogletree and Mary (Molly) Bird Ogletree. He was said to have owned extensive property in the country at what is now Chewacla State Park.
Some family trees give his birth as December 2 while others say December 3.
Marriage and Death Notices from the Southern Christian Advocate, 1861-1867, by Brent H. Holcomb:
Issue of June 8, 1866
James B. Ogletree was born 3d Dec. 1800, and died on 15th April, in Wilkes Co., Ga.(sic). Married Miss Mary A. Martin, daughter of the late Marshall Martin of Merriwether Co., Ga. He moved to Macon Co, Ala., about 1845.
He moved to Auburn, Alabama in the 1840s.
From William Bowers (#47336227: He was a little old to serve as a private in the Civil War but he may be the James B. Ogletree who was a Private in Co. G, 54th Regiment Georgia Infantry, CSA. The men of the 54th Regiment were recruited primarily from the Georgia counties of Lamar, Appling, Harris, Muscogee, Bartow, Chatham, and Barrow. Company G, 54th Georgia Volunteers, was called the "Columbus Invincibles." War record shows James B. Ogletree enlisted August 8, 1862, served more than two years and surrendered at Greensboro, N. C., April 26, 1865.
Places in Peril: Alabama's Most Endangered Sites for 2009, by the Alabama Historical Commission and the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation "The Ogletree-Wright-Ivey House was constructed during the late 1840's by one of Auburn's founding fathers, James B. Ogletree. As a rare surviving antebellum Greek Revival residence in the city, the house still retains many of its original exterior and interior features despite being divided into numerous rental units."
The Auburn Villager, June 11, 2009, said: "The house was once the town home of James B. Ogletree, standing on 20 acres that rolled off to the rear of the home. Draughon said Ogletree was a planter, not a merchant, and farmed extensive acreage in what was then rural Macon County, where the new village of Auburn was located. Ogletree was one of the founders of Auburn in late 1836, part of the group headed by Judge John J. Harper that moved westward to lands recently ceded by the Creek Indian tribes in East Alabama. In what Southern historians have dubbed a "planter migration," the inter-related Harper clan helped push settlement west as they moved together to the frontier. According to Draughon, Ogletree's sister was Judge Harper's wife, and the group consisted of the 36-year-old Ogletree, his wife and children, the Harpers and their eight sons and three daughters, the judge's mother and several of his half-brothers along with some Harris County, Ga., neighbors, quite a few slaves and livestock. The Ogletree-Wright-Ivey house is one of only two surviving homes owned and occupied by Auburn's original settlers. The other is Pebble Hill, the home of Nathaniel J. Scott, also related to Judge Harper...."
Pebble Hill is also called the Scott-Yarbrough house, having been the residence of Dr. Cecil Sentell Yarbrough, state legislator and physician at Auburn University.
"Like Judge Harper and Scott, Ogletree was a confirmed Methodist. Draughon said he is first recorded in published records in 1837 as a member of the Methodist "society," the preliminary organization of a group that wished to form a recognized Methodist congregation.
The first surviving church register, dated 1850, listed Ogletree as a member, and he participated that year in the quarterly conference that initiated plans to erect a new church building. The church still stands today, although altered in 1899.
In 1856, Draughon said, Ogletree joined in another Methodist enterprise of longstanding benefit to the town of Auburn�the chartering of East Alabama Male College, a Methodist institution that was the forerunner of Auburn University. Ogletree served on the first board of trustees.
At the end of the Civil War the village of Auburn was destitute, and no one had any money. Ogletree once contributed two and a half bushels of corn to help pay for the services of a Methodist minister, Draughon said.,,,
By tradition, Draughon said, the home dates from the late 1840s. By that time, Ogletree was probably comparatively well-off. According to Draughon, the U.S. census of 1860 showed Ogletree owning 63 slaves who raised mostly cotton and corn on 1,000 cultivated acres. Another 600 acres remained unimproved. One June 2, 1860, Ogletree and his wife Mary sold their town house and its 20 acres for $4,000 to Adam Hardin, who kept the property for a year and a half before he sold it in 1861 to W.S.J. Lampkin for $2,700. By that time the United States was rent by a bitter civil war, which Draughon said might account for the precipitous drop in the property's value. The Methodist register noted that Ogletree 'died in peace April 1866.' "
From "Brooks of Honey and Butter - Plantations and People of Meriwether County, Georgia" by William H. Davidson, 1971. Page 242:
"Another daughter, (of Marshall and Jane M. Oliver Martin) Mary Ann Martin, fondly known in the family as "Polly Ann", was married to James B. Ogletree in Meriwether County on May 6, 1834. They had one son, William Marshall Ogletree, born in 1839. She is mentionedseveral times in her father's will as his daughter Polly Ann Ogletree.
The Ogletrees left Meriwether about 1845 and moved to Macon County, Alabama. They settled on a plantation which is now part of the Chewacla State Park, near Auburn, Alabama.
James B. Ogletree was a steward in the Auburn Methodist Church for years and a trustee of East Alabama Male College, now Auburn University. He was born December 3, 1800 and died April 15, 1866 at his plantation.
After the death of Jams B. Ogletree, and Mrs. Sarah Kibble Martin McGhee (Polly Ann's sister) in 1868, the Rev. Thomas Franklin McGehee married Mrs. Ogletree. They lived at the McGehee plantation near the Marshall Martin plantation until their deaths."
He was the son of William Ogletree and Mary (Molly) Bird Ogletree. He was said to have owned extensive property in the country at what is now Chewacla State Park.
Some family trees give his birth as December 2 while others say December 3.
Marriage and Death Notices from the Southern Christian Advocate, 1861-1867, by Brent H. Holcomb:
Issue of June 8, 1866
James B. Ogletree was born 3d Dec. 1800, and died on 15th April, in Wilkes Co., Ga.(sic). Married Miss Mary A. Martin, daughter of the late Marshall Martin of Merriwether Co., Ga. He moved to Macon Co, Ala., about 1845.
He moved to Auburn, Alabama in the 1840s.
From William Bowers (#47336227: He was a little old to serve as a private in the Civil War but he may be the James B. Ogletree who was a Private in Co. G, 54th Regiment Georgia Infantry, CSA. The men of the 54th Regiment were recruited primarily from the Georgia counties of Lamar, Appling, Harris, Muscogee, Bartow, Chatham, and Barrow. Company G, 54th Georgia Volunteers, was called the "Columbus Invincibles." War record shows James B. Ogletree enlisted August 8, 1862, served more than two years and surrendered at Greensboro, N. C., April 26, 1865.
Places in Peril: Alabama's Most Endangered Sites for 2009, by the Alabama Historical Commission and the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation "The Ogletree-Wright-Ivey House was constructed during the late 1840's by one of Auburn's founding fathers, James B. Ogletree. As a rare surviving antebellum Greek Revival residence in the city, the house still retains many of its original exterior and interior features despite being divided into numerous rental units."
The Auburn Villager, June 11, 2009, said: "The house was once the town home of James B. Ogletree, standing on 20 acres that rolled off to the rear of the home. Draughon said Ogletree was a planter, not a merchant, and farmed extensive acreage in what was then rural Macon County, where the new village of Auburn was located. Ogletree was one of the founders of Auburn in late 1836, part of the group headed by Judge John J. Harper that moved westward to lands recently ceded by the Creek Indian tribes in East Alabama. In what Southern historians have dubbed a "planter migration," the inter-related Harper clan helped push settlement west as they moved together to the frontier. According to Draughon, Ogletree's sister was Judge Harper's wife, and the group consisted of the 36-year-old Ogletree, his wife and children, the Harpers and their eight sons and three daughters, the judge's mother and several of his half-brothers along with some Harris County, Ga., neighbors, quite a few slaves and livestock. The Ogletree-Wright-Ivey house is one of only two surviving homes owned and occupied by Auburn's original settlers. The other is Pebble Hill, the home of Nathaniel J. Scott, also related to Judge Harper...."
Pebble Hill is also called the Scott-Yarbrough house, having been the residence of Dr. Cecil Sentell Yarbrough, state legislator and physician at Auburn University.
"Like Judge Harper and Scott, Ogletree was a confirmed Methodist. Draughon said he is first recorded in published records in 1837 as a member of the Methodist "society," the preliminary organization of a group that wished to form a recognized Methodist congregation.
The first surviving church register, dated 1850, listed Ogletree as a member, and he participated that year in the quarterly conference that initiated plans to erect a new church building. The church still stands today, although altered in 1899.
In 1856, Draughon said, Ogletree joined in another Methodist enterprise of longstanding benefit to the town of Auburn�the chartering of East Alabama Male College, a Methodist institution that was the forerunner of Auburn University. Ogletree served on the first board of trustees.
At the end of the Civil War the village of Auburn was destitute, and no one had any money. Ogletree once contributed two and a half bushels of corn to help pay for the services of a Methodist minister, Draughon said.,,,
By tradition, Draughon said, the home dates from the late 1840s. By that time, Ogletree was probably comparatively well-off. According to Draughon, the U.S. census of 1860 showed Ogletree owning 63 slaves who raised mostly cotton and corn on 1,000 cultivated acres. Another 600 acres remained unimproved. One June 2, 1860, Ogletree and his wife Mary sold their town house and its 20 acres for $4,000 to Adam Hardin, who kept the property for a year and a half before he sold it in 1861 to W.S.J. Lampkin for $2,700. By that time the United States was rent by a bitter civil war, which Draughon said might account for the precipitous drop in the property's value. The Methodist register noted that Ogletree 'died in peace April 1866.' "
From "Brooks of Honey and Butter - Plantations and People of Meriwether County, Georgia" by William H. Davidson, 1971. Page 242:
"Another daughter, (of Marshall and Jane M. Oliver Martin) Mary Ann Martin, fondly known in the family as "Polly Ann", was married to James B. Ogletree in Meriwether County on May 6, 1834. They had one son, William Marshall Ogletree, born in 1839. She is mentionedseveral times in her father's will as his daughter Polly Ann Ogletree.
The Ogletrees left Meriwether about 1845 and moved to Macon County, Alabama. They settled on a plantation which is now part of the Chewacla State Park, near Auburn, Alabama.
James B. Ogletree was a steward in the Auburn Methodist Church for years and a trustee of East Alabama Male College, now Auburn University. He was born December 3, 1800 and died April 15, 1866 at his plantation.
After the death of Jams B. Ogletree, and Mrs. Sarah Kibble Martin McGhee (Polly Ann's sister) in 1868, the Rev. Thomas Franklin McGehee married Mrs. Ogletree. They lived at the McGehee plantation near the Marshall Martin plantation until their deaths."
One of the founders of the town of Auburn and what is now Auburn University.
He was the son of William Ogletree and Mary (Molly) Bird Ogletree. He was said to have owned extensive property in the country at what is now Chewacla State Park.
Some family trees give his birth as December 2 while others say December 3.
Marriage and Death Notices from the Southern Christian Advocate, 1861-1867, by Brent H. Holcomb:
Issue of June 8, 1866
James B. Ogletree was born 3d Dec. 1800, and died on 15th April, in Wilkes Co., Ga.(sic). Married Miss Mary A. Martin, daughter of the late Marshall Martin of Merriwether Co., Ga. He moved to Macon Co, Ala., about 1845.
He moved to Auburn, Alabama in the 1840s.
From William Bowers (#47336227: He was a little old to serve as a private in the Civil War but he may be the James B. Ogletree who was a Private in Co. G, 54th Regiment Georgia Infantry, CSA. The men of the 54th Regiment were recruited primarily from the Georgia counties of Lamar, Appling, Harris, Muscogee, Bartow, Chatham, and Barrow. Company G, 54th Georgia Volunteers, was called the "Columbus Invincibles." War record shows James B. Ogletree enlisted August 8, 1862, served more than two years and surrendered at Greensboro, N. C., April 26, 1865.
Places in Peril: Alabama's Most Endangered Sites for 2009, by the Alabama Historical Commission and the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation "The Ogletree-Wright-Ivey House was constructed during the late 1840's by one of Auburn's founding fathers, James B. Ogletree. As a rare surviving antebellum Greek Revival residence in the city, the house still retains many of its original exterior and interior features despite being divided into numerous rental units."
The Auburn Villager, June 11, 2009, said: "The house was once the town home of James B. Ogletree, standing on 20 acres that rolled off to the rear of the home. Draughon said Ogletree was a planter, not a merchant, and farmed extensive acreage in what was then rural Macon County, where the new village of Auburn was located. Ogletree was one of the founders of Auburn in late 1836, part of the group headed by Judge John J. Harper that moved westward to lands recently ceded by the Creek Indian tribes in East Alabama. In what Southern historians have dubbed a "planter migration," the inter-related Harper clan helped push settlement west as they moved together to the frontier. According to Draughon, Ogletree's sister was Judge Harper's wife, and the group consisted of the 36-year-old Ogletree, his wife and children, the Harpers and their eight sons and three daughters, the judge's mother and several of his half-brothers along with some Harris County, Ga., neighbors, quite a few slaves and livestock. The Ogletree-Wright-Ivey house is one of only two surviving homes owned and occupied by Auburn's original settlers. The other is Pebble Hill, the home of Nathaniel J. Scott, also related to Judge Harper...."
Pebble Hill is also called the Scott-Yarbrough house, having been the residence of Dr. Cecil Sentell Yarbrough, state legislator and physician at Auburn University.
"Like Judge Harper and Scott, Ogletree was a confirmed Methodist. Draughon said he is first recorded in published records in 1837 as a member of the Methodist "society," the preliminary organization of a group that wished to form a recognized Methodist congregation.
The first surviving church register, dated 1850, listed Ogletree as a member, and he participated that year in the quarterly conference that initiated plans to erect a new church building. The church still stands today, although altered in 1899.
In 1856, Draughon said, Ogletree joined in another Methodist enterprise of longstanding benefit to the town of Auburn�the chartering of East Alabama Male College, a Methodist institution that was the forerunner of Auburn University. Ogletree served on the first board of trustees.
At the end of the Civil War the village of Auburn was destitute, and no one had any money. Ogletree once contributed two and a half bushels of corn to help pay for the services of a Methodist minister, Draughon said.,,,
By tradition, Draughon said, the home dates from the late 1840s. By that time, Ogletree was probably comparatively well-off. According to Draughon, the U.S. census of 1860 showed Ogletree owning 63 slaves who raised mostly cotton and corn on 1,000 cultivated acres. Another 600 acres remained unimproved. One June 2, 1860, Ogletree and his wife Mary sold their town house and its 20 acres for $4,000 to Adam Hardin, who kept the property for a year and a half before he sold it in 1861 to W.S.J. Lampkin for $2,700. By that time the United States was rent by a bitter civil war, which Draughon said might account for the precipitous drop in the property's value. The Methodist register noted that Ogletree 'died in peace April 1866.' "
From "Brooks of Honey and Butter - Plantations and People of Meriwether County, Georgia" by William H. Davidson, 1971. Page 242:
"Another daughter, (of Marshall and Jane M. Oliver Martin) Mary Ann Martin, fondly known in the family as "Polly Ann", was married to James B. Ogletree in Meriwether County on May 6, 1834. They had one son, William Marshall Ogletree, born in 1839. She is mentionedseveral times in her father's will as his daughter Polly Ann Ogletree.
The Ogletrees left Meriwether about 1845 and moved to Macon County, Alabama. They settled on a plantation which is now part of the Chewacla State Park, near Auburn, Alabama.
James B. Ogletree was a steward in the Auburn Methodist Church for years and a trustee of East Alabama Male College, now Auburn University. He was born December 3, 1800 and died April 15, 1866 at his plantation.
After the death of Jams B. Ogletree, and Mrs. Sarah Kibble Martin McGhee (Polly Ann's sister) in 1868, the Rev. Thomas Franklin McGehee married Mrs. Ogletree. They lived at the McGehee plantation near the Marshall Martin plantation until their deaths."
He was the son of William Ogletree and Mary (Molly) Bird Ogletree. He was said to have owned extensive property in the country at what is now Chewacla State Park.
Some family trees give his birth as December 2 while others say December 3.
Marriage and Death Notices from the Southern Christian Advocate, 1861-1867, by Brent H. Holcomb:
Issue of June 8, 1866
James B. Ogletree was born 3d Dec. 1800, and died on 15th April, in Wilkes Co., Ga.(sic). Married Miss Mary A. Martin, daughter of the late Marshall Martin of Merriwether Co., Ga. He moved to Macon Co, Ala., about 1845.
He moved to Auburn, Alabama in the 1840s.
From William Bowers (#47336227: He was a little old to serve as a private in the Civil War but he may be the James B. Ogletree who was a Private in Co. G, 54th Regiment Georgia Infantry, CSA. The men of the 54th Regiment were recruited primarily from the Georgia counties of Lamar, Appling, Harris, Muscogee, Bartow, Chatham, and Barrow. Company G, 54th Georgia Volunteers, was called the "Columbus Invincibles." War record shows James B. Ogletree enlisted August 8, 1862, served more than two years and surrendered at Greensboro, N. C., April 26, 1865.
Places in Peril: Alabama's Most Endangered Sites for 2009, by the Alabama Historical Commission and the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation "The Ogletree-Wright-Ivey House was constructed during the late 1840's by one of Auburn's founding fathers, James B. Ogletree. As a rare surviving antebellum Greek Revival residence in the city, the house still retains many of its original exterior and interior features despite being divided into numerous rental units."
The Auburn Villager, June 11, 2009, said: "The house was once the town home of James B. Ogletree, standing on 20 acres that rolled off to the rear of the home. Draughon said Ogletree was a planter, not a merchant, and farmed extensive acreage in what was then rural Macon County, where the new village of Auburn was located. Ogletree was one of the founders of Auburn in late 1836, part of the group headed by Judge John J. Harper that moved westward to lands recently ceded by the Creek Indian tribes in East Alabama. In what Southern historians have dubbed a "planter migration," the inter-related Harper clan helped push settlement west as they moved together to the frontier. According to Draughon, Ogletree's sister was Judge Harper's wife, and the group consisted of the 36-year-old Ogletree, his wife and children, the Harpers and their eight sons and three daughters, the judge's mother and several of his half-brothers along with some Harris County, Ga., neighbors, quite a few slaves and livestock. The Ogletree-Wright-Ivey house is one of only two surviving homes owned and occupied by Auburn's original settlers. The other is Pebble Hill, the home of Nathaniel J. Scott, also related to Judge Harper...."
Pebble Hill is also called the Scott-Yarbrough house, having been the residence of Dr. Cecil Sentell Yarbrough, state legislator and physician at Auburn University.
"Like Judge Harper and Scott, Ogletree was a confirmed Methodist. Draughon said he is first recorded in published records in 1837 as a member of the Methodist "society," the preliminary organization of a group that wished to form a recognized Methodist congregation.
The first surviving church register, dated 1850, listed Ogletree as a member, and he participated that year in the quarterly conference that initiated plans to erect a new church building. The church still stands today, although altered in 1899.
In 1856, Draughon said, Ogletree joined in another Methodist enterprise of longstanding benefit to the town of Auburn�the chartering of East Alabama Male College, a Methodist institution that was the forerunner of Auburn University. Ogletree served on the first board of trustees.
At the end of the Civil War the village of Auburn was destitute, and no one had any money. Ogletree once contributed two and a half bushels of corn to help pay for the services of a Methodist minister, Draughon said.,,,
By tradition, Draughon said, the home dates from the late 1840s. By that time, Ogletree was probably comparatively well-off. According to Draughon, the U.S. census of 1860 showed Ogletree owning 63 slaves who raised mostly cotton and corn on 1,000 cultivated acres. Another 600 acres remained unimproved. One June 2, 1860, Ogletree and his wife Mary sold their town house and its 20 acres for $4,000 to Adam Hardin, who kept the property for a year and a half before he sold it in 1861 to W.S.J. Lampkin for $2,700. By that time the United States was rent by a bitter civil war, which Draughon said might account for the precipitous drop in the property's value. The Methodist register noted that Ogletree 'died in peace April 1866.' "
From "Brooks of Honey and Butter - Plantations and People of Meriwether County, Georgia" by William H. Davidson, 1971. Page 242:
"Another daughter, (of Marshall and Jane M. Oliver Martin) Mary Ann Martin, fondly known in the family as "Polly Ann", was married to James B. Ogletree in Meriwether County on May 6, 1834. They had one son, William Marshall Ogletree, born in 1839. She is mentionedseveral times in her father's will as his daughter Polly Ann Ogletree.
The Ogletrees left Meriwether about 1845 and moved to Macon County, Alabama. They settled on a plantation which is now part of the Chewacla State Park, near Auburn, Alabama.
James B. Ogletree was a steward in the Auburn Methodist Church for years and a trustee of East Alabama Male College, now Auburn University. He was born December 3, 1800 and died April 15, 1866 at his plantation.
After the death of Jams B. Ogletree, and Mrs. Sarah Kibble Martin McGhee (Polly Ann's sister) in 1868, the Rev. Thomas Franklin McGehee married Mrs. Ogletree. They lived at the McGehee plantation near the Marshall Martin plantation until their deaths."
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