Benjamin Ogden was between 1765 and 1770 in North Carolina. In 1790, he lived in Hillsborough District, Wake County in a household with three females, probably his mother and sisters. By 1795, he had married Susannah Moore, and they settled in Montgomery County by the latter 1790s. About 1812, they moved west to Tennessee, settling in Stewart County on the Kentucky border by 1815. Benjamin purchased a farm there in 1815, but sold it the next year and moved his family across the Mississippi River into what was then Arkansaw Territory. He settled in what was then Hempstead County, in modern southwestern Arkansas. Sometime in the 1820s, he chose to settle in the southeastern portion of original Hempstead County, the portion put into Union County in 1829. His farm lay near what later became El Dorado.
Benjamin Ogden farmed and served as a Methodist minister. He remained active in church affairs throughout that portion of Arkansas in the very early years of white settlement. On 27 June 1837, Rev. Benjamin Ogden emancipated his only slave, Lewis, who he had acquired in 1822:
Know all men by these Presents that I Benjamin Ogden have this day Emmancipated [sic] my Negro Man Slave Lewis Which Slave I have oned [sic] 15 years and I Benjamin Ogden do By these presents declare that I no longer hold the right of property of said Lewis Neither for myself nor my heirs but that he is no longer a bound Slave but his own free agent Subject only to the Laws of the Country and God.
Lewis remained closely associated with Benjamin's widow, son and grandson for the remainder of his life. Lewis chose to use his former owner's surname, thereafter known as "Lewis Ogden."
In November 1837, Rev. Ogden became ill with "Billeaus feavre" that led to his death on December 9th. His obituary stated that he bore his "long and painfull illness...with Christian fortitude to the last moments of his life, and died apparently in that faith which bears a Christian triumphant to a happy eternity." He is buried on his old farm near El Dorado, in the Ogden Family Cemetery.
Benjamin Ogden farmed and served as a Methodist minister. He remained active in church affairs throughout that portion of Arkansas in the very early years of white settlement. On 27 June 1837, Rev. Benjamin Ogden emancipated his only slave, Lewis, who he had acquired in 1822:
Know all men by these Presents that I Benjamin Ogden have this day Emmancipated [sic] my Negro Man Slave Lewis Which Slave I have oned [sic] 15 years and I Benjamin Ogden do By these presents declare that I no longer hold the right of property of said Lewis Neither for myself nor my heirs but that he is no longer a bound Slave but his own free agent Subject only to the Laws of the Country and God.
Lewis remained closely associated with Benjamin's widow, son and grandson for the remainder of his life. Lewis chose to use his former owner's surname, thereafter known as "Lewis Ogden."
In November 1837, Rev. Ogden became ill with "Billeaus feavre" that led to his death on December 9th. His obituary stated that he bore his "long and painfull illness...with Christian fortitude to the last moments of his life, and died apparently in that faith which bears a Christian triumphant to a happy eternity." He is buried on his old farm near El Dorado, in the Ogden Family Cemetery.
Benjamin Ogden was between 1765 and 1770 in North Carolina. In 1790, he lived in Hillsborough District, Wake County in a household with three females, probably his mother and sisters. By 1795, he had married Susannah Moore, and they settled in Montgomery County by the latter 1790s. About 1812, they moved west to Tennessee, settling in Stewart County on the Kentucky border by 1815. Benjamin purchased a farm there in 1815, but sold it the next year and moved his family across the Mississippi River into what was then Arkansaw Territory. He settled in what was then Hempstead County, in modern southwestern Arkansas. Sometime in the 1820s, he chose to settle in the southeastern portion of original Hempstead County, the portion put into Union County in 1829. His farm lay near what later became El Dorado.
Benjamin Ogden farmed and served as a Methodist minister. He remained active in church affairs throughout that portion of Arkansas in the very early years of white settlement. On 27 June 1837, Rev. Benjamin Ogden emancipated his only slave, Lewis, who he had acquired in 1822:
Know all men by these Presents that I Benjamin Ogden have this day Emmancipated [sic] my Negro Man Slave Lewis Which Slave I have oned [sic] 15 years and I Benjamin Ogden do By these presents declare that I no longer hold the right of property of said Lewis Neither for myself nor my heirs but that he is no longer a bound Slave but his own free agent Subject only to the Laws of the Country and God.
Lewis remained closely associated with Benjamin's widow, son and grandson for the remainder of his life. Lewis chose to use his former owner's surname, thereafter known as "Lewis Ogden."
In November 1837, Rev. Ogden became ill with "Billeaus feavre" that led to his death on December 9th. His obituary stated that he bore his "long and painfull illness...with Christian fortitude to the last moments of his life, and died apparently in that faith which bears a Christian triumphant to a happy eternity." He is buried on his old farm near El Dorado, in the Ogden Family Cemetery.
Benjamin Ogden farmed and served as a Methodist minister. He remained active in church affairs throughout that portion of Arkansas in the very early years of white settlement. On 27 June 1837, Rev. Benjamin Ogden emancipated his only slave, Lewis, who he had acquired in 1822:
Know all men by these Presents that I Benjamin Ogden have this day Emmancipated [sic] my Negro Man Slave Lewis Which Slave I have oned [sic] 15 years and I Benjamin Ogden do By these presents declare that I no longer hold the right of property of said Lewis Neither for myself nor my heirs but that he is no longer a bound Slave but his own free agent Subject only to the Laws of the Country and God.
Lewis remained closely associated with Benjamin's widow, son and grandson for the remainder of his life. Lewis chose to use his former owner's surname, thereafter known as "Lewis Ogden."
In November 1837, Rev. Ogden became ill with "Billeaus feavre" that led to his death on December 9th. His obituary stated that he bore his "long and painfull illness...with Christian fortitude to the last moments of his life, and died apparently in that faith which bears a Christian triumphant to a happy eternity." He is buried on his old farm near El Dorado, in the Ogden Family Cemetery.
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