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Tallulah Henson Ogden. William W. Ogden was the owner of the Sulligent Cotton Oil Company, a planter, banker, mayor of Sulligent 1919-1921, and member of the Alabama House of Representatives 1931-1934. Leila Ogden, daughter of the builder presented this house to the Town of Sulligent in 1975 where it acted as the public library until the late 1990s when the current public library was built.
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1412:Fernbank
1392:Millport
1189:July 29,
1065:HMdb.org
860:Hispanic
245:01-73728
234:205, 659
217:ZIP code
1387:Kennedy
1382:Detroit
1139:June 3,
1118:June 6,
802:18.41%
788:78.13%
732:At the
702:At the
295:History
285:Alabama
261:Website
106:Alabama
91:Country
1432:Moscow
1347:Vernon
1334:Cities
1324:Vernon
871:0.48%
864:Latino
854:2.61%
841:0.05%
828:0.05%
815:0.27%
785:1,468
774:Perc.
669:−10.4%
639:−11.5%
519:104.3%
474:Census
390:and a
315:, the
305:cotton
289:Vernon
256:153600
113:County
1369:Towns
821:Asian
780:White
771:Num.
768:Race
684:−2.5%
679:1,879
664:1,927
654:14.1%
649:2,151
634:1,886
624:20.9%
619:2,130
609:30.9%
604:1,762
594:11.3%
589:1,346
579:−6.1%
574:1,209
564:19.4%
559:1,287
544:1,078
534:73.0%
529:1,071
222:35586
211:(CDT)
209:UTC-5
188:UTC-6
169:1,879
118:Lamar
101:State
1216:2021
1191:2015
1166:2008
1141:2014
1120:2013
1098:2011
1072:2023
1047:2023
998:2018
964:2019
906:2021
799:346
675:2020
660:2010
645:2000
630:1990
615:1980
600:1970
585:1960
570:1950
555:1940
549:0.7%
540:1930
525:1920
510:1910
495:1900
483:Note
478:Pop.
456:The
382:, a
354:, a
268:.org
251:GNIS
124:Area
36:City
862:or
851:49
514:619
499:303
348:NFL
202:DST
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