The little settlement of White Oak Flats, nestled in the Great Smokey Mountains on the south end of Sevier County, Tennessee was "Pioneered by Martha Jane "Huskey" Ogle"
Martha Jane Huskey and her husband William "Billy" Ogle
are a great part of "Sevier County History"

Martha was born in Wake County, North Carolina. She was the daughter of John Frederick Huskey and Rebecca Washington-Huskey.

Martha Jane Huskey married William "Billy" Ogle, he was born in New Castle, Delaware and was the son of Thomas Ogle and Elizabeth "Robeson" Ogle.

Martha Jane Huskey and William "Billy" Ogle married in 1778 in North Carolina. Martha and William had the following Children;

1. Hercules "Hike" Ogle
2. Rebecca Ogle
3. Thomas J. Ogle
4. John "Johnny" Ogle
5. Isaac "Shucky" Ogle
6. William "Black Bill" Ogle
7. Mary Ann Ogle


Historical "Ogle Cabin"-tarted by William "Billy" Ogle and finished by Matha Jane Huskey-Ogle her son's and other family members

Martha's husband, William "Billy" Ogle, came to Tennessee from South Carolina and was among one of the first to permanently settle in the Gatlinburg area. It is said that William Ogle hunted with the Indian friends in the area and decided to build a Cabin and move his family there. With help from the local Cherokee, he cut and hewed logs to build Cabin. He returned to South Carolina to retrieve his family. William had to grow a crop, in order to bring supplies for the family's survival an epidemic of malaria broke out and William "Billy" Ogle died of the fever Around 1803-1807 Martha Jane Huskey-Ogle her children and her brother Peter Huskey and several other family members, journeyed to the area now called Gatlinburg to complete her late husband "William "Billy" Ogle Dream". They found the waiting logs and Martha's son's Built the Ogle Cabin.It still stands today in the Great Smokey Mountains *Historical Ogle Cabin

After the death of William, Martha took her five sons and two daughters for a short visit with relatives in Virginia. Her brother, Peter Huskey, and his family then accompanied them on their long trip to the East Tennessee area to establish their home

According to the church minutes of "Fork of Little Pigeon Church", Martha Ogle was the one of the group of people from White Oak Flats Community that asked the Fork of Little Pigeon Church to establish a church in White Oak Flats as an arm of the church in Sevierville in December 1817.


Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1974, p 37-38.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 229.
"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 3.

*Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, Cocke County Heritage Book Committee, (Walsworth Publishing, 1992), 188.
*A Place Called Home: Our Story, David L. Popiel, Duay O'Neil, et. al., (2006, The Newport Plain Talk / Jones Media Inc.), [email protected]., 114.
* In the Shadow of the Smokies, Smoky Mountain Historical Society, (1993), 575.