Death Calls Jack T. Ogden

Well-Known Carrollton Hotel Man to Be Buried Sunday

CARROLLTON, Dallas Co., Dallas. Dec 12. J. (Jack) T. Ogden, resident of Dallas County for ??? years, died at his residence here Friday morning and will be buried at Webbs Chapel Cemetery xxxday afternoon following funeral services to be held at the residence at 2 p.m. Mr. Ogden was manager of the Leland Hotel ???. Heart failure was the cause of death.
Mr. Ogden was 69 years old and born in Milford, Mo., in 18xx.  He came to Dallas county fifty years ago and had resided in Carrollton for twenty years. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Nellie Ogden, four sons and one daughter, Othole, Raymond, James and H. D. Ogden and Mrs. R. O. Connell?, four brothers, Will Ogden of San Diego, Calif.; Nathan Ogden of Augusta, Kan.; Ed and Harry ???? of Carthage, Mo. He was a charter member of the James A. Smith A. F. & F. M. Lodge No xxx at Farmers Branch and also was a Shriner.
Funeral services will be in charge of the Masons of Farmers Branch Lodge. Mr. Ogden is well known throughout the county and State.

Dallas Morning News - Dec 13, 1925
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

INTERESTING EVENTS IN LIFE OF OLD SETTLER

When one meets J. T. Ogden, at present a hotel keeper, they meet a most congenial personage. A little talk we had with him revealed the following and other events. Forty-one years ago he was proprietor of a blacksmith shop in Farmers Branch. No less than 20 years ago he says very few fences could be seen in these parts. He has been Past Grand Master of the Jas. A. Smith Masonic lodge at Farmers branch for 39 years. He was in the grocery and hardware business in Carrollton from 1905 to 1913. The flood washed his goods away, and he had to borrow the bankers clothes to wear until the waters abated. The high water ruined his library, but a bible a man had given him in early life remained. 900 cords of wood, and $500.00 worth of his coffee were washed away. Mr. Ogden then moved to San Antonio for two years, but the call of Carrollton was too strong and he returned to clerk for other business men until he was called to Old Mexico to work in the mining business at which time Guerilla warfare was in fashion there. He had many hair raising experiences there. At one time he was on an expedition in which seventeen of his companions were murdered. He returned to the restaurant business and latter the hotel business in Carrollton. He makes a good citizen, a good friend, and a good hotel keeper, and says his business is flourishing.

The Carrollton Chronicle - Friday, January, 14, 1921
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

OGDEN
NELLIE SMITH 1873 - 1938
JACK T - 1857 - 1925

Webb Chapel Cemetery, Farmers Branch, Dallas County, Texas