[1][2] Ogle married first Prudence Drusilla Biggs (1748–1777), of Frederick County, Maryland in 1762 and had 5 children together.
In 1777, the family was living on Buffalo Creek in what is today Brooke County, West Virginia.
Joseph Ogle commanded a Virginia company during the Revolutionary War.
He was involved in the Siege of Fort Henry in what is now West Virginia.He married a second wife, Jemima Meiggs or Meeks, with whom he had four children.
[citation needed] By 1785, Ogle had settled his family in the Northwest Territory, which is present-day Monroe County, Illinois.