A first cousin four times removed of mine. He had an interesting life and was a man of integrity. Eldest son of Nicholas Robert Osborn and Mary J. Johnson Osborn. Married Charlotte Harriet Goddard 27-Sep-1855. Father of Alice M., Robert M. and John L. Osborne.
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Letter by N.L. Osborn
An Osborn Occurence, issue one. Mary Osborn Hemmingsen,
Chadron, NE, 1990. The letter is attributed to Pontotoc Co.
Quarterly, Vol. XVI, #1, Oct. 1984, pp90 + 91.

May 2nd, 1887
Mountaintown, GA

Albert H. Osborn, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Dear Sir:
I received a circular from Toledo, O asking for any information I could give of the records of the Osborn family. I have -------- record back to the VA Osborn's as far as ----- have their history. My great-grandfather, Jeremiah Osborn lived on North Fork P---- River, VA. Moved from there to Western NC about the close of the revolutionary war, was married to Miss Newman. He had five sons: John, Jeremiah, Josiah, Reuben, & Jonathan. He moved to KY where he died. His son Jonathan moved to O about 1800, married a Miss Claypool & had children: his sons Reuben & Josiah moved to KY about 1800 where some of the family now live, his son Jeremiah lived & died in NC, had 4 sons, Jesse, James, John & Champion. Some of his sons live in NC yet, some of them in North GA, his son John, my grandfather, was married to a Miss Claypool. Misses (?) family in Buncombe, NC. Had five sons: Newman, Jeremiah, John Nicholas & Jonathan. He moved to North GA where he died. Newman married, moved to North GA & then to TX where he died, has a son Jeremiah living in TX, has a son John living in Gilmer Co., GA, both (?) of these sons raised families. Jeremiah lives in NC, has three sons, Charley, Blyth & Henry. John moved to IL about 1830, is dead, has one son, George, living. Jonathan married a Miss Grady, moved from NC to North GA, raised 4 boys. Henry, Griffin, & George now live in Parker Co., TX. Joshua was killed in the war & Nicholas R. Osborn, my father, was married to Miss Johnson in Henderson Co., NC, moved to Gilmer Co., GA about 1839. Had me, N.L. Osborn, W.H. Osborn, John J. Osborn James & Samuel. Two daughters, Ann & Margaret lived and married Hill & Harper. The undersigned, N. L. Osborn and two bros. W.H. & Samuel live in Gordon Co., GA. My bro. John married a Miss Cave, had three sons, James, Thomas, & John. He died in Gordon Co., GA about 1868, his three sons live now at ---- ?, MS. My bro. W.H. married a Miss Waddell, had 4 sons, Nicholas, Samuel, James & John. All live in Gilmer Co., GA. My brother, Samuel, married a Miss Cole, has sons John, Nicholas, Lafayette, James, daughters Jennie, Annie and Maggie. I married a Miss Goddard of Sweetwater, TN about 1855, have had two sons, Robert & John, one daughter, Alice. Robert & Alice died when children. John lived to be of age, married a Miss Parks, had one daughter, Lilly Belzonia, he died when his child was only a few months old, his wife and child and my wife constituted my family. My bro. James, was killed in the Civil War.
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From the Annals of Upper Georgia Centered in Gilmer County by George Gordon Ward. (on loan from Livingston University.)
He is a descendent of Jeremiah Osborn, one of five brothers who migrated from England to America. Jeremiah settled in Virginia, and later moved to western North Carolina. His son John migrated to Gilmer Co, GA. John's son Nicholas R. was well known in Gilmer County.
Born in Henderson Co, NC his family moved to Gilmer Co, GA when he was 9 years old. He was known for his character and involvement in the community as a farmer, merchant, school teacher and commissioner, and minister.