Mary Ann "Ogle" Whaley was born 1793 in Edgefield County, South Carolina. She was the daughter of William "Billy" Ogle and Martha Jane "Huskey" Ogle. Mary moved with her mother Martha Jane "Huskey" Ogle and family to Sevier County, Tennessee as early as 1805, soon after the death of her father William "Billy" Ogle

She married William M. Whaley also born in South Carolia. William and Mary were married on Dec 26 1811 in Sevier County, Tennessee.

William M Whaley and Mary Ann "Ogle" Whaley had the following children:

1. Alexander Whaley
2. William M. Whaley
3. John H. "Bullhead" Whaley
4. Nancy Whaley,
5. Martha Whaley
6. William Isaac Whaley
7. Henry A. Whaley
8. Jane "Jennie" Whaley
9. Perry Commodore Whaley
10. Adeline Whaley
11. Ira Whaley
12. Rebecca Whaley
13. Colonel Preston Whaley
14. Rev. George Bradford Whaley
15. Elijah Whaley

Mary and William were members of the White Oak Flats Baptist Church. December 1817 when the White Oak Flats Baptist Church was formed as an arm of the Fork of Little Pigeon Baptist Church in Sevierville, William Whaley and his wife Mary Ann "Ogle' Whaley were listed as charter members

William M Whaley and Mary Ann "Ogle" Whaley are listed on the United States Federal Census in Sevier County 1830-1870

Mary Ann "Ogle" Whaley died 1880 in Greenbrier, Sevier County, Tennessee. Mary is buried next to her Husband William M Whaley at Plemmons Cemetery

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Reference; "Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 138-139.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 229.
"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 3.

Sources; 1. Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, Cocke County Heritage Book Committee, (Walsworth Publishing, 1992), 188.
2. A Place Called Home: Our Story, David L. Popiel, Duay O'Neil, et. al., (2006, The Newport Plain Talk / Jones Media Inc.), [email protected]., 114.