O'BRIEN, Delos P. and Emily Goodrich – Came to Illinois from New York state in 1854, and was living near El Paso in 1857. Delos was active in the Methodist Church organization, and his name appears on that church records for 1859. He ran one of El Paso's first hardware stores.
O'CONNELL, John – Contracted to buy Lot 13, Block 28 from Wathen on August 8, 1858, but failed to complete contract.
O'CONNELL, Timothy – Helped build the railroad through Panola in 1853. He settled and lived there the rest of his life.
OGDEN, Silas W. and Margaret – Silas was the organizer and a Charter Member of the Presbyterian Church of El Paso, May 11, 1857, El Paso's first church. Mr. Ogden was this church's first "ruling elder," Dr. S. L. Kerr succeeding him in 1858.
OHMET, J. – A member of the First Methodist Conference in Panola, November 7-8, 1857.
ORE, Benjamin K. and Esther Cline – Benjamin was a Palestine farmer in 1858, who entered Civil War service in Company A., 86th Voluntary Infantry, (See "El Paso's part in the Wars.") but was injured before that company's fight in the Kenesaw Mountain battle. He was a Methodist and a Republican, a Charter Member of El Paso's GAR Post, and farmed after the war from 1865 to 1889. He was born in Swedesboro, New Jersey, December 29, 1826 and died in El Paso on February 15, 1908 and is buried in the Kappa Cemetery. Benjamin and Esther were the parents of Henry P. Ore, killed in action with Indians at Ft. Robinson, Nebraska on January 12, 1879.
OSTLER, William Sr. and (1) Sarah North, (2) Mary Morris, (3) Ann Ball – William migrated from England in 1851, and purchased the NE 1/4, of the NE 1/4 of Section 16 from James Trotter on September 14, 1854. Trotter had purchased this school land from the State on September 28, 1853. Ostler began farming it "on English Lane" in 1855, and continued there for many years. He wrote a diary, short extracts being printed in the Curtiss & Evans booklet on El Paso in 1895, but he is slightly in error. He and his second wife were the parents of Jan William Ostler, Annie O. (Schofield) and Ella O. Stevens.
OTTO, G. H. and Antonette – Mr. Otto was born in 1800 and died in 1878. His wife, Antonette, was killed in a tornado or cyclone on May 29, 1859 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
PAINTER, William – An 1855 Notary in Kappa, and also serving as Justice of the Peace.
PARKS, Jonathan D. – Jonathan was in Panola in 1857 where he served as the first Master of the new Panola Lodge, A. F. & A. M. He was Panola's third railroad agent. He moved to El Paso and was an insurance agent and Justice of the Peace in 1864 when he permitted a new arrival, David A. Strother, a colored boy who had served as a cook in an army company, to set up a barber chair in a corner of his office. (See article on him elsewhere in this book.) In 1865 Parks served as President of the Board of Trustees which governed the Original Town of El Paso.
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