Person:George Oller (10)

Acknowledgements

The premier researcher on this and other information on the OLLER and OLLAR family is Betty Ollar Mozisek. She and her son Butch Dobis have been researching the family for many years. Betty is the granddaughter of Nancy Delia Elgada and Rodney Thomas Ollar (1872-1958).

An early researcher, Verta Lee Oller, wife of Frank Leonard Oller(1914-2009) contributed much to one line of the family. Frank was the son of Lillie Mae Brown and George Washington Oller(1880-?), who was the son of Martha Caroline Childress and James Franklin Oller (1848-1891).

Another early researcher was Irene Martin Constant of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Irene is the daughter of Pernie Oller (1901-1975) a daughter of Lillie Napier and George B. Oller (1871-1917).

An active genealogist, Gary Oller, hosts a website. Gary is the grandson of George Washington Oller(1880-?) and Lillie Mae Brown.

Another active genealogist is Krys Oller who has posted a large file of information on the Oller lineage of George Oller, Sr.. I should caution that some of this information is not in agreement with other researchers.

This researcher, B.Holmes, is the grandson of Nancy Emeline Oller (1871-1937) who was the daughter of Martha Caroline Childress and James Franklin Oller (1848-1891) This researcher maintains an Oller Memorial Garden webpage and a WorldConnect webpage for the Oller line.

George Oller, Sr.

George Oller, Sr. was born about 1751 or 1752. Some say he was born in Berkeley County, Colonial Virginia which is currently in the State of West Virginia. Others say only born in Colonial Virginia or Maryland. The area of the current boundaries of Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania have experience many boundary shifts over the years from the Colonial era to present. One of the latest was the separation of West Virginia from Virginia during the War Between The States.

Betty Ollar Mozisek found a record of George being apprenticed in 1768 as a blacksmith at age 17 to a Mr. Uncell. This is the basis of his date of birth being 1751 or 1752.

Ms. Mozisek has also documented the service of George Oller, Sr. in the American Revolution to the standards of the Daughters of the American Revolution to gain membership. Her information indicates that George first served in a Militia Company in Maryland and then in a Militia company in Washington County, Maryland. What was Washington County in 1781 is now an area just north of Weirton, West Virginia.

Krys Oller relates: “There were about 75 men who served in Capt Edmund Baxter's company called the "Chester County Militia" during the Revolutionary War in that area. Leonard is believed to have served with the 4th Battalion of the Militia. Most of the men were from Maryland, but some were from Pennsylvania and Virginia”.

Betty reported that on March 4, 1776, George swore an “oath of Allegiance” in Washington County, Maryland and a record of George Oller, Sr. as a member of Captain Charles Coulson’s Militia Company of Washington County, Maryland on 28 August, 1776.

Krys continues; “There was a group of 26 of those men from that company that came into Kentucky in 1788 or 1789. This group included Capt. Charles Coulson, George Oller, Edward Logsdon, John Sapp, John Simon, and Leonard Reed Sr. George Oller and Prudence Logsdon, his wife as well as the brother of Prudence, Edward Logsdon, and his wife, Mary "Polly" Brown, settled in Madison County, Kentucky for a while then later moved on to Hardin County and then Barren County, Kentucky. George Oller, Sr. seems to be the first Oller in Kentucky. He and his family moved to the Madison County, Kentucky is 1788 and lived there until 1799 when they moved on to Hardin County, Kentucky”.

However George is enumerated in Madison County, Kentucky Territory in August 1790 in the first US Census.

Note: At the time of the first census order, 1 Mar 1790, Kentucky was still part of Virginia. The Territory of Kentucky was created on 26 July 1790, with admission as a state on 1 June 1792. The census of the District of Kentucky within Virginia was ordered in August 1790 and to be completed in 9 months. The census was completed and returned to the State Department in Washington. The Census of Kentucky was destroyed when the British burned Washington during the War of 1812. The Census totaled 73,677, of which 15,154 were free white males over 16, 17,057 were free white males under 16, 28,922 were free white females, 114 were other free persons, and 12,430 were Slaves.

Krys continues: “They were only in Hardin Co, Kentucky a few years and then moved on to Barren County, Kentucky where they lived from 1808 to 1811. Today there is a great number of the Oller family in Kentucky and many still in Barren County.” By 1818, and perhaps as early as 1810, George and some of his family had moved again, this time to the Alexander Co, Illinois Territory. George Oller later died there in Illinois.