Martha Ogle^{[1, 2]}

1807 - 1885  (78 years)

• Name	Martha Ogle
  Born	1807	Sevier County, Tennessee   [3]
  Gender	Female
  Died	1885
  Buried	Glades Lebanon Baptist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee   [4]
  Person ID	I2025	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2011

  
  

  Father	Thomas J. Ogle,   b. 1784, Wilkes County, Georgia ,   d. 1862, Sevier County, Tennessee  (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Sophia Bosley,   b. Abt 1789, Maryland ,   d. 13 Jul 1857, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee  (Age ~ 68 years)
  Married	Abt 1804
  Headstones		Thomas Ogle Sr. Sophia Ogle 1784-1862 1784 G. G. Grandpa of July 13, 1857 Mrs. Wiley Oakley Great Grandma of Mrs. Wiley Oakley
  Family ID	F232	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Jacob Evans,   b. 1797, South Carolina ,   d. Abt Mar 1878  (Age 81 years)
  Married	Abt 1823	, Sevier County, Tennessee
  Children	+ 1. Richard E. "Preacher Dick" Evans, Rev.,   b. 4 Jan 1824, Tennessee ,   d. 6 Dec 1901  (Age 77 years) + 2. Mary Evans,   b. 1825, Tennessee + 3. Sophia Evans,   b. 15 Feb 1826, Tennessee ,   d. 2 Mar 1910  (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F780	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1807 - Sevier County, Tennessee Married - Abt 1823 - , Sevier County, Tennessee Buried - - Glades Lebanon Baptist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Martha and Jacob gave the land for the Lebanon Baptist Church in the Glades. They left a joint will which is recorded in Will Book I, page 247, Sevier County Courthouse. Their daughter, Sophia Ownby, and her son, Samuel, are mentioned in it. The will was probated in April 1878. Samuel Ownby told of his grandmother's love of the mountains. His parents, James and Sophia Evans Ownby along with his grandparents, Martha and Jacob Evans had moved to Copperhill, Tennessee. Martha yearned for the mountains so much, she started walking home. Jacob and James rode after her and finally persuaded her to stay until they made their harvest that year. She held them to their promise and they returned that fall to the Smokies. Census records verify the story above mentioned. They are listed in the 1850 Federal Census of Gilmer County, Georgia, right near the state line of Tennessee and Georgia. ---------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 158. "Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 52, 298.

  
  

• Sources

  [S9] Smoky Mountain Historical Society Newsletter, Smoky Mountain Historical Society, Vol. XXVII, No.1, Page 13, 2001. [S94] Sevier County, Tennessee Census, 324C, 1880. in son-in-law Jaems S. Ownby's household [S94] Sevier County, Tennessee Census, 341a, 20 Jul 1870. [S34] In the Shadow of the Smokies, Smoky Mountain Historical Society, (1993), 538.