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6th Ogle/Ogles Family National Convention

September 21-23, 2000
Gatlinburg, Tennessee

The famous tourist resort of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee, was the site of the 6th Ogle/Ogles Family National Convention, Sept. 21-23, 2000.

There are thousands of Ogle "cousins" within a 200-mile radius of Gatlinburg. Many are descendants and relatives of William Ogle (ca. 1756 - 1803) and his wife Martha Huskey Ogle. The large number of Ogle descendants in the area and their significant role in the history of the Greater Gatlinburg area made Gatlinburg a natural choice for our 6th National Convention, which was attended by over 160 members. 

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Ogle Log Cabin in Gatlinburg

  
     

 

Formal sessions of the Convention began Thursday morning, Sept. 21 and concluded Saturday afternoon, followed by a banquet Saturday evening, Sept. 23, 2000. A number of informative and exciting sessions were enthusiastically attended, including one presented by the nationally recognized Smoky Mountain Historical Society. The complete convention review is available in the Winter 2000 newsletter.  The 7th National Convention is scheduled to be held in the Fall of 2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

 

Attendees of the 6th National O/OFA Convention
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Historical Note:
Family tradition says that William Ogle hunted and traded with the Indians. He visited the area that later became known as Gatlinburg, where he cleared a place for a cabin and hewed and notched the logs. Then he returned to his family in Edgefield District, South Carolina, intent on returning with them to the mountains of East Tennessee.

Apparently, before William could dispose of his land in South Carolina, he died from a fever that ravaged the area. Sometime later, Martha and their children traveled to Sevier County, Tennessee, via Grayson County, Virginia, and Grainger County, Tennessee.

According to long time O/OFA member and East Tennessee Ogle family researcher Lucinda Oakley Ogle, soon after arriving in Virginia, Martha and her family, along with her brother Peter Huskey and his family, made the long trip down the Holston and French Broad Rivers to White Oaks Flats (later to be named Gatlinburg). They arrived in the Great Smokies as early as 1805.

Martha and her children, with help from the Huskey’s large family, soon finished the cabin William had started, and became some of the earliest settlers of White Oak Flats. The log cabin was built between where Arrowmont and the Staff House is presently located in Gatlinburg. Peter Huskey and his family had been William and Martha Ogle’s neighbors in South Carolina. Huskey and Reagan descendants are closely entwined with Ogle descendants in East Tennessee.

 

  
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Gatlinburg - in the heart
of the Great Smoky Mountains

 

 

 

  

 

  

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