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Was this the David Ogletree who was the oldest son of Turner and Mary Sanders Ogletree? He lived in Talladega County and died around this time, but I'm not sure that this is the same David Ogletree.
NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, OCTOBER 8, 1887 - Talladega County News:
Five miles from Talladega town, on the St. Clair road, lived David Ogletree, a well-to-do farmer. On the 4th inst., Ogletree went to Talladega and bought a jug of whiskey, as was his custom. That night all the family took a drink of it and next morning, every member of the family except one, took another drink. In half an hour, each one who had drank of the whiskey was dead. The son who survives has been arrested, charged with the murder of his relatives. The Ogletree family is quite numerous in Talladega county and all are farmers of good circumstances.
From a later issue of the same paper:
State chemist N.T. Lupton has examined the whiskey drank by old man Olgletree and wife of Talladega county just before they both died suddenly in convulsions, and also the stomachs of each and reports that he finds no trace of poison either in the whiskey or the stomachs of the dead people. It will be remembered that Harry Ogletree was arrested and put in jail under charge of having poisoned his father and mother. He is still in jail. It is a curious case of sudden death from no apparent cause.
The link on which these were found:
http://files.usgwarchives.org/al/calhoun/newspapers/newspape1141gnw.txt
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