Wallingford/Jarlov Family Trees

Minutes of Inferior Court Book 3 1810-1818 Richmond County Georgia: May 2, 1814: James Churchill applies for guardianship of Thomas and Amelia Ogg, minor orphans of John Ogg, deceased.

Richmond County Georgia Early Marriage Records pg 38:
Ogg, John & Mildred Garrett July 24,1793
Ogg, Thomas& Eliza Suggs May 15,1831
Ogg, Thomas & Martha Fulcher December 10,1835

1830 and 1840 Census Georgia, Richmond County shows Thomas Ogg as head of household with 5 children and 2 slaves (one male and one female), 1 free colored person, male.

April 28, 1846 Grimes County Texas tax rolls shows that Thomas Ogg paid taxes on two negroes valued at $1,200.00.

1849 Grimes County tax rolls show that Thomas Ogg purchased 320 acres of land, adjacent to Walnut Creek from Richard Allen for $160.00. At this time Thomas Ogg also had two negroes and one wagon.

1850 Grimes County tax rolls show the same property with the addition of four horses and thirteen head of cattle.

Thomas Ogg no longer appears on the tax rolls after 1870.

1850 Census for Grimes County Texas dated 28th day of October 1850 shows that at this time Thomas has assumed his father's first name;

John Thomas Ogg male 46 born in Georgia
Martha Ogg female 38 born in Georgia
John Ogg Jr. m 18 born in Georgia
Elizabeth Ogg f 12 born in Georgia
James Ogg m 10 born in Georgia
Amelia Ogg f 8 born in Georgia
Caroline Ogg f 6 born in Georgia
Thomas Ogg m 4 born in Texas
Henry Ogg m 2 months born in Texas
Martha Ogg f 2 months born in Texas

Thomas Ogg born approximately 1804 in Georgia, died November 11,1875 in Texas and is buried in the cemetary at the Magnolia Baptist Church in Montgomery, Texas (anecdotal).

Information on grandchildren available. Correspondence invitation: William Allen Ogg, 901 Twin Oaks, Houston, Texas 77076-2806..e-mail peteo@wfi-intl.com

Thomas Ogg transferred land in the Austin District of Waller County, Texas (though it wasn't called that at the time?) on 20 August 1859. Patent number 312, volume 26.

160 acres, Mont. 3rd class, file number 323.

From "A History of Waller County, Texas" by The Waller County Historical Survey Committee (1973).

Thomas Ogg moved to Yarbrough Lake in what was then Montgomery, Texas, from Georgia in about the year 1842. Here the family resided for several years before buying land near Walnut Creek in an area that is now in Waller County. There Thomas built his home and reared his children to adulthood. He had in all nine children as follows: John, a son by his first marriage to a Miss Suggs; -who married Susan T. Howell; James, who married Eliza Heflin; Henry, who married Emma Anderson; Elizabeth, who first married Edward Howell, and then married Alex Ryals; Martha spouse's name not available); Sallie, who married Press Izard; Carrie, who married Ed Wise; Pat, who married George Randle, and Thomas, Jr., who was killed in the Battle of Mansfield.

Thomas, Sr., and his second wife Martha who was the mother of his last eight children are buried in the Magnolia Cemetery. When they were buried their graves were marked by cedar slabs, hand carved by an Indian in the area.

Contributed by Granddaughters, Cassie Horn Mahan and Edna Ogg Hafer J.R.O.

No Oggs in the 1820 census index of Richmond County, GA (source Gary Adams, quoted by Bill Ogg).

1830 census of Richmond County, GA, page 289, line 21 - Holt's District shows Thomas Ogg household with:

males
00-05 1
05-10 1
10-15 1
20-30 1

females
00-05 1
05-10 1
10-15

two male slaves in household

1840 census of Richmond County, GA, page 307, line 20:

Thomas Ogg household

males
00-05 1
05-10 1
10-15 0
15-20 1
20-30 0
30-40 1

females
00-05 1
20-30 1

one free black male, one male slave, one female slave

1846 Thomas Ogg shows as owning land in Grimes County, Texas.

from Texas Tax List Index, 1840-1849, quoted by Bill Ogg.

1850 census of Grimes Co

Real estate value $2,500.
Personal property value $6000.

John and Martha shown with children:
John, Jr.
Elizabeth
James
Amelia
Caroline
Thomas
Henry
M. J.

(Aged from 18 down to 2 months. Last three born in Texas, all others in GA.)

1860 census of Grimes County, Texas, HH 148, shows Thomas and Martha with:
James
Aurelia
Thomas
Henry
Marth
Sarah
Edward Wise (husband of Caroline)
Caroline (listed on next page, not referenced by Bill Ogg)

1860 slave census for Grimes County, Texas, shows Thomas Ogg owning three male slaves and two female slaves.

1860 census shows William and Jane Rogerson and daughter Emline as neighbours - Henry Warren Ogg and Emmaline Rogerson (in fact, Emmaline Anderson) were later to marry.

Also showing as close neighbour is John Ogg, Jr, and his wife Susan. John, Jr., was the son of Thomas A. and Martha.