David and Nancy came to Cooper County, Missouri some time between 1831 and 1834. In 1844, they brought their family by wagon to Dallas, Texas for two years and then they returned to Missouri. In 1849, they traveled back to Texas with their younger children and wintered in Coffey's Bend near the Red River.
"Early in the spring of 1850, [the family] left with a train of 50 wagons for California, by way of El Paso, Texas. Thence through the territories of New Mexico and Arizona to Los Angeles, California...Before [they] reached Los Angeles while crossing the Gila River, [Nancy Ogle] died. [They] used one of the wagon bodies to make her a coffin and buried her there. After leaving Los Angeles [David Ogle] was thrown from a mule and seriously injured from which he died on Christmas Day ten miles south of Los Angeles and was buried there."*
*Edited from an autobiographical letter written by Luther A Ogle who traveled with his parents and the younger siblings in the family to California.
[Information for the Ogles is found in Mary Jane (Ogle) Blasingame's family bible and all other information is found in the aforementioned autobiographical letter written by Luther A. Ogle. Both items were shared by Morgan Blasingame, Mary Jane's great grandson.]
David and Nancy came to Cooper County, Missouri some time between 1831 and 1834. In 1844, they brought their family by wagon to Dallas, Texas for two years and then they returned to Missouri. In 1849, they traveled back to Texas with their younger children and wintered in Coffey's Bend near the Red River.
"Early in the spring of 1850, [the family] left with a train of 50 wagons for California, by way of El Paso, Texas. Thence through the territories of New Mexico and Arizona to Los Angeles, California...Before [they] reached Los Angeles while crossing the Gila River, [Nancy Ogle] died. [They] used one of the wagon bodies to make her a coffin and buried her there. After leaving Los Angeles [David Ogle] was thrown from a mule and seriously injured from which he died on Christmas Day ten miles south of Los Angeles and was buried there."*
*Edited from an autobiographical letter written by Luther A Ogle who traveled with his parents and the younger siblings in the family to California.
[Information for the Ogles is found in Mary Jane (Ogle) Blasingame's family bible and all other information is found in the aforementioned autobiographical letter written by Luther A. Ogle. Both items were shared by Morgan Blasingame, Mary Jane's great grandson.]
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