"Captain Joseph Ogle was born in Delaware in 1741. He removed to Virginia in early manhood and married Miss Drusilla Biggs. From this union there were five children born, namely, Catherine, Nancy, Prudence, Benjamin and Joseph. After her death he married Miss Jemima Meiggs, and they had several children. Captain Joseph Ogle, under a commission from Governor Patrick Henry (bearing date June 2, 1776, and which is now in the hands of Dr. Edward C. Lemen, of Upper Alton, Ill.), was an officer in the war for independence, and commanded the American forces in the battle at Fort Henry, Wheeling, Va., in 1777 against the British and Indians, and he was also in several other engagements, some of which were under the direct command of Washington. In 1785, with his family, except Catherine [his daughter, who married Rev. James Lemen Sr.], he removed to the Illinois Territory, and settled near New Design, now in Monroe County. In 1802 he removed to and settled on his farm in Ridge Prairie, St. Clair County, Illinois. He died at his home in Ridge Prairie in February, 1821, aged four score years. Captain Ogle was a devout member of the M. E. Church, and was greatly esteemed for his many noble traits."
—Frank B. Lemen, History of the Lemen Family, of Illinois, Virginia, and Elsewhere (1656–1898), privately printed, 1898, pp. 18–19.
—Frank B. Lemen, History of the Lemen Family, of Illinois, Virginia, and Elsewhere (1656–1898), privately printed, 1898, pp. 18–19.
"Captain Joseph Ogle was born in Delaware in 1741. He removed to Virginia in early manhood and married Miss Drusilla Biggs. From this union there were five children born, namely, Catherine, Nancy, Prudence, Benjamin and Joseph. After her death he married Miss Jemima Meiggs, and they had several children. Captain Joseph Ogle, under a commission from Governor Patrick Henry (bearing date June 2, 1776, and which is now in the hands of Dr. Edward C. Lemen, of Upper Alton, Ill.), was an officer in the war for independence, and commanded the American forces in the battle at Fort Henry, Wheeling, Va., in 1777 against the British and Indians, and he was also in several other engagements, some of which were under the direct command of Washington. In 1785, with his family, except Catherine [his daughter, who married Rev. James Lemen Sr.], he removed to the Illinois Territory, and settled near New Design, now in Monroe County. In 1802 he removed to and settled on his farm in Ridge Prairie, St. Clair County, Illinois. He died at his home in Ridge Prairie in February, 1821, aged four score years. Captain Ogle was a devout member of the M. E. Church, and was greatly esteemed for his many noble traits."
—Frank B. Lemen, History of the Lemen Family, of Illinois, Virginia, and Elsewhere (1656–1898), privately printed, 1898, pp. 18–19.
—Frank B. Lemen, History of the Lemen Family, of Illinois, Virginia, and Elsewhere (1656–1898), privately printed, 1898, pp. 18–19.
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