STILES, Mr. Ogden. Age 74, Fri. Jan. 23, 1970, at 5 p.m. . at Flaget Memorial Hospital, Bardstown. Residence Bardstown, Ky. Survived by wife, Mrs. Gayle Stiles; sister, Mrs. Mildred Stiles Brunson, Bardstown; brother Robert Stiles, St. Petersburg, Fla. Mr. Stiles is at Mann, Greenwell and Arnold Funeral Home, Bardstown. Funeral services Sun., at 2 p.m. from the Bardstown, Baptist Church. Interment In Bardstown Cemetery. Masonic rites by Duvall Lodge No. 6 at graveside.

WWI veteran.

Single, living with parents in 1940.

Swam frozen pond, twice, on a bet for $25. Story published in the Ky Standard.

Caught running liquor in Danville near Centre College.

March 9, 1922 - The Kentucky Standard
Mystery Surrounds Shooting of Well Known Young People
At Age 28 he was charged with mysterious shooting of Samuel Crume’s wife, (Curran, 28) in her room, the night of March 3. Her husband was away at work. Five shots were fired. Mrs. Curran (Seeger) Crume called a doctor, while Stiles fell wounded into a pool room across the street. She was struck once in the back, the bullet lodging in her lung, while he was struck 3 times, in the left arm and through his chest and lung. He was the proprietor of the Old Kentucky Home Sweet Shop. Neither would elaborate on exactly what happened, though both reportedly said that the other shot them.

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The Courier-Journal 17 Dec 1935
John D. Taggart, 36, grandson of the late John D. Taggart, founder of the Kentucky Wagon Works, died at 11 a.m. Monday at his home in the Panama Canal Zone, where he had been a Government electrical engineer for the past eight years. He had ended a visit in Louisville only two weeks ago., and contracted pneumonia upon his return to the Canal Zone. Mr. Taggart is survived by his mother, Mrs. Henrietta G. Taggart, Bloomfield, Ky. The body will be cremated and the ashes brought to Louisville.

Lived in Lexington, KY.