Wallingford/Jarlov Family Trees

Confederate pension application in Waller County, Texas, number 21286.

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

John Ogg, Sr., was born in Georgia April 29, 1832, the only child of Thomas Ogg and his first wife. His mother died when he was two and one-half months old and thereafter he lived for several years in the home of his maternal grandparents, General and Mrs. Suggs — John's mother was the only child of the Suggs. After a few years Thomas remarried, and in about 1842 he moved with his family to Yarborough in Montgomery County Texas. (In 1846 this area became part of the newly organized Grimes County.) Later Thomas bought land on Walnut Creek and established his home there. Here John grew to manhood.

He married Sue Howell, the second daughter of Colonel Alfred E. Howell. Family tradition is that Thomas Ogg gave each of his children 150 acres of land. John and Sue built their home near that of Thomas and bought some adjoining land. There their five children, Alfred, Edward, John, Jr., Mollie and Cassie were born. John, Sr. had had some musical education and played the violin, and had a great deal of native talent. He celebrated the birth of his first daughter by composing the music and writing the words for a song he titled "Mollie Ogg".

When the War between the States began John, Sr., volunteered for service in the Confederate Army and was mustered in at Hockley. He served throughout War. Of the several battles in which he participated he spoke most often of the one in Galveston when the Confederates captured the ship Harriet Lane.

After the War John returned to his home on Walnut Creek, hoping to take up his farming activities on his land again. Sue had attended a school for girls in Huntsville, Alabama. There being no public school in the Walnut Creek area John and Sue built a room in their yard for one and employed a Mr. McNeill to teach their children because they could not tolerate the idea of their growing up without an education. Mr. McNeill lived in the family home, accepting room and board as part of his salary. Several frineds also sent their children to the school, those living near enough going from their homes, and those from too far away living in the Ogg home. Perhaps this schooling that John and Sue provided for their children in spite of the hardships of Reconstruction and its aftermath may account, in part, for the fact that one of their sons, ten of their grandchildren, and three great grandchildren became teachers.

When the movement for the creation of what would become Waller County was in progress John signed the petitions asking for the formation of the new county.

In the late 1870's John and Sue sold their land in Waller County and moved to Nelsonville in Austin County where they lived on the Bethany Plantation. A few years later they moved to the Fields Store Community in Waller County where they lived until John's death. Sue moved to Hempstead and lived in the home of her daughter, Mollie Bethany, where she died one year later. They are buried in the Fields Store Cemetery in the Ogg Family Plot.

Contributed by Members of the Ogg Family J.R.O.

1860 census of Grimes County, Texas, shows John Thomas Ogg, Sr, and Susan, with children Edward, Alfred, John and Mary (ages 6 down to 2).

1860 slave census of Grimes County, Texas, shows John Ogg owning one male slave.

1870 census of Austin County, Texas, household 620-630, precinct 5, city of Industry shows John and Susan with five children: Edward, Alfred, John, Mary and Sarah (aged 16 down to 10).

1880 census of Austin County, Texas, household 219, precinct 7, ED 3 lists John Ogg as a farmer, along with wife Susan, and children John and Cassie.

1910 census of Waller County, Texas, 3rd Justice precinct, shows only John, Sr, now 77 years old.