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Col Landon Ware Oglesby

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Col Landon Ware Oglesby

Birth
Overton County, Tennessee, USA
Death
16 Jan 1887 (aged 52–53)
Plano, Collin County, Texas, USA
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Plano, Collin County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Son of Harden P. Oglesby born ca. 1800 to 1810m and Nancy Jane Armstrong Oglesby, born ca. 1811.
Col. Landon W. Oglesby moved to Texas about 1866-1867, after serving in the Civil War. He immediately started buying property in Plano. He moved into a nice two-story home in southeast section of Plano, with his wife and children, Hardin, Samuel B., Nancy Bell, Mary Lucetta, Landon W.,Jr., Martha M. "Mattie", John, and Earl.
In 1873 he owned a general store in downtown Plano, with William E. Lee, called "Lee and Oglesby". They sold supplies, including farm tools, "goods", wares, things necessary for homes and farms.
In 1878, he became tax accessor/collector for Collin County until November 1886.
His granddaughter, Nancy Judson of Morgantown, Indianna, reports of three accouts to how he died: congestion of the brain, poisoned himself, and committed suicide in the St. George Hotel in Dallas, Texas.
Son of Harden P. Oglesby born ca. 1800 to 1810m and Nancy Jane Armstrong Oglesby, born ca. 1811.
Col. Landon W. Oglesby moved to Texas about 1866-1867, after serving in the Civil War. He immediately started buying property in Plano. He moved into a nice two-story home in southeast section of Plano, with his wife and children, Hardin, Samuel B., Nancy Bell, Mary Lucetta, Landon W.,Jr., Martha M. "Mattie", John, and Earl.
In 1873 he owned a general store in downtown Plano, with William E. Lee, called "Lee and Oglesby". They sold supplies, including farm tools, "goods", wares, things necessary for homes and farms.
In 1878, he became tax accessor/collector for Collin County until November 1886.
His granddaughter, Nancy Judson of Morgantown, Indianna, reports of three accouts to how he died: congestion of the brain, poisoned himself, and committed suicide in the St. George Hotel in Dallas, Texas.

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