Muhlenberg County Kentucky
Family Group Records
Benjamin Franklin Oglesby & Cynthia Ann Dukes
Benjamin Franklin Oglesby
Born: About 1814 in Christian Co., Kentucky
Married: July 20, 1844 in Muhlenberg
Died: December 3, 1878 in Christian Co., Kentucky
Father: Jacob B. Oglesby
Mother: Permelia Harkins Crabtree
Spouse: Cynthia Ann Dukes
Born: About 1824 in Muhlenberg
Died: Before 1878 in Christian Co., Kentucky
Father: Sampson Dukes
Mother: Nancy M. (believed by many to be Cherokee Indian)
Children of Benjamin F. Oglesby & Cynthia A. Dukes:
- Cryhorn Decalve “Crog” Oglesby
Born: February 1845 in Christian Co., Kentucky
Married:
- April 26 1874 in Hopkins Co., Kentucky to Melissa B. Oglesby, daughter of Wade Hampton Oglesby & Sarah Elizabeth Coursey. (Wade was the brother of Benjamin Franklin Oglesby)
- October 20, 1885 in Logan Co., Kentucky to Mary Ellen “Pinkie” Coursey, daughter of William E. Coursey & Willie Elmus McKinney
Died: July 13, 1924 in Logan Co., Kentucky
- William Anderson Oglesby
Born: About 1848 in Christian Co., Kentucky
Married:
- November 23, 1869, Martha E. Lile in Muhlenberg
- March 6, 1883, Tabitha L. “Bibi” Lile in Muhlenberg
- December 23, 1885, Patsy Ann Owen in Muhlenberg
- January 3, 1920, Betty Tate in Logan Co., Kentucky
Died: June 10, 1926 in Muhlenberg
- Newton Jackson Oglesby
Born May 11, 1854 in Christian Co., Kentucky
Married:
- May 28, 1874 in Muhlenberg to Nancy Louraine R. Owen, daughter of James Owen & Nancy J. Dules
- Before 1910 to Frances Barbara Morgan
Died: January 1926 in Muhlenberg
- Permelia Jane Oglesby
Born: March 1864 in Christian Co., Kentucky
Married: February 4, 1886 in Muhlenberg to William Sampson Dukes, son of John Dukes & Sarah Dukes
Died: January 16, 1952 in Muhlenberg
Sources: Christian Co., Logan Co. and Muhlenberg Censuses; Kentucky
Land Grants, Vol. 1, Pt. 2, Chapter X (1836-1924); Muhlenberg Deed Book 65, Page 372 and Deed
Book 73, Page 467; Will of Sampson Dukes; Hopkins Co., Christian Co., Logan Co. and Muhlenberg Marriages; Books on the history of Muhlenberg and History of Logan Co.; family members.
Contributed by Barb Curtis
Updated August 4, 2017