Soldier Information
Name: Tobias Oglesby
Alias:
Place of Birth: Oldham KY Year of Birth: 1844
Occupation: Laborer
Eyes: Dark Hair: Dark Complexion: Dark
Height in Feet: 5 Inches: 5
View Ledger
Enlistment Information
Enlistment Date: September 23, 1864
Enlistment Place: Louisville
Enlistment State: KY
Compiled Military Service Record
Document: View
Congressional District: 5th
Company: L Regiment(s): 12th Regt USCHA
Mustered Where: Louisville, Kentucky
Mustered Out Date: April 24, 1866
Rank at Muster Out: Corporal
Notes:
The name of Oglesby’s enslaver was listed, but the spelling of the surname has not been determined by searching in some census and marriage records.
Many thanks to the Oldham County History Center and scholar Robert Bell for providing us with basic information about this soldier upon which our additional research is based.
Soldier Death Information
Died in war? No
Military Death Date:
Military Death Location:
Military Cause of Death:
Death Date: June 19, 1904
Cause of Death: Organic heart disease
Death Certificate
Soldier Pension Information
Pension Card Link: Pension Card
Pension Application Date: August 28, 1891
Application No.: 1052078 Certificate No.: 1009021
Alternate First Name: Alternate Last Name:
No widow pension card found
No other family pension card found
Pension File Information
Pension File:
Pensioners:
Pensioner County: Pensioner State:
Number of Pages:
Pension Notes:
Freedman’s Bank/Freedmen’s Bureau Information
No Freedman’s Bank information found
Notes from Freedmen’s Bureau Documents:
In 1866, Tobias Oglesby was one of several workers who filed complaints against Worden P. Hahn of Louisville whose real estate value in 1860 was $200,000, and his personal estate value was $70,000. (Hahn’s name appears as an employer in the 1860 slave schedule, but no slaves were listed. In 1850 he enslaved 32 people.)
Family Information
Mother First Name: Harriett Mother Maiden Name:
Father First Name: Tobias Father Last Name: Oglesby
Siblings:
Wife #1 First Name: Julia Alexander Maiden Name: Welch
Wife #2 First Name: Maiden Name:
Wife #3 First Name: Maiden Name:
Children: John Oglesby 1873
James Oglesby 1874
Albert Oglesby 1877
George W Oglesby 1879
Elijah Oglesby 1887
Hewitt 1888 Oglesby
Family Notes:
Tobias Oglesby mustered out in Louisville and remained there the rest of his life. By 1910 his sons George and Elijah had moved to Indianapolis as did Tobias’s brother Charles. George and Hewitt registered for the draft in World War 1. Tobias was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery. (Among the notables also buried there were Muhammad Ali and Georgia Davis Powers “an American politician who served for 21 years as a state senator in the Kentucky Senate. In 1967, she was the first person of color and the first woman elected to the Senate. (https://www.cavehillcemetery.com/about/cemetery/people/ and Wikipedia).
Family Tree: View
View Family Tree on Ancestry.com Please note: this requires a paid Ancestry.com account to view
1870 Census
1870 Census Link: View
1870 Profession: Laborer
1870 Live with/near former enslaver? Unknown
1870 Real Estate Value: 1870 Personal Estate Value:
1870 Ability to Read? Cannot read Ability to Write? Cannot write
1870 Census Notes:
Tobias Oglesby lived in Louisville with his parents Tobias (laborer, age 60) and Harriet Oglesby (60), sister Harriet Oglesby (16), brother Charles Oglesby (laborer, 15), sister Caroline Gibson (laundress, 27), and her son Daniel Gibson (1). Although the 1870 census does not mention relationships, other records have confirmed the relationships.
1880 Census
1880 Census Link: View
1880 Profession: Laborer
1880 Live with/near former enslaver? Unknown
1880 Ability to Read? Can read Ability to Write? Can write
1880 Census Notes:
Tobias Oglesby, the soldier, resided in Louisville, with his wife Julia (age 26), and their children: John (7), James (8), Albert (3), and George (1). Caroline Williams, a widow and the soldier’s sister, also lived in Louisville, with her son Dan Gibson (11).
1890 Census
1890 Census information not found
1900 Census
1900 Census Link: View
1900 Profession: Day Laborer
1900 Ability to Read? Cannot read Ability to Write? Cannot write
1900 Own/Rent: Rent 1900 Home Free/Mortgage: Unknown 1900 Farm/House: House
1900 Census Notes:
Tobias (the soldier) was a widower by 1900. In his home were sons Elijah (age 13), Hewitt (11), and his mother-in-law Louisiana Welsh/Welch (68, widow, mother of 8 children, none living).
1910 Census
1910 Census Link: View
1910 Profession: Porter
1910 Ability to Read? Can read Ability to Write? Can write
1910 Own/Rent: Rent 1910 Home Free/Mortgage: Unknown 1910 Farm/House: House
1910 Census Notes:
The soldier died in 1904. His son George and his wife Mary (no children) lived in Indianapolis with his grandmother-in-law Jane Vaughn (63, widow). George’s brother Elijah (24, single) resided in Chicago with his cousin Jennie Harlan, (54, widow, mother of 4 children, one living), and several members of the Harrison family. (It is not known if the Harrisons were related to the Oglesbys.)
Charles Oglesby, Tobias’s brother, was a boarder in the household of Florence F. Foster. He was 58 and a widower. Foster was a 50-year-old widow.
1920 Census
1920 Census Link: View
1920 Profession: Janitor
1920 Ability to Read? Can read Ability to Write? Can write
1920 Own/Rent: Own 1920 Home Free/Mortgage: Free 1920 Farm/House: House
1920 Census Notes:
The census showed that George Oglesby lived in Indianapolis with his daughter Bessie Franklin and his wife Mary. George and Mary were born in Kentucky. Bessie and her parents were born in Indiana.
George’s brother Hewitt also resided in Indianapolis with his wife Grace and son Raymond.
Enslaver Information
Name: James Nathanial (?) Location:
Previous Enslaver:
Enslaver Notes:
The spelling of the enslaver’s surname cannot be determined from the CMSR. Census and other records were examined to determine possible matches, but none were found.
1850 Enslaver Census
1850 Census information not found
1860 Enslaver Census
1860 Census information not found
1870 Enslaver Census
1870 Census information not found
1880 Enslaver Census
1880 Census information not found
Compensation Information
Compensation Application not found