William Ogly built his cabin near Poplar Springs along the Federal Road and was killed there with most of his family on March 13, 1818. In the same attack, the wife of his friend Eli Stroud was fatally wounded and their infant child was killed. Writing from Claiborne on March 16, 1818, Dr. W.B. Ector reported that William Ogly and three children had been killed, two wounded, Mrs. Eli Stroud wounded, and her child killed, while only Mrs. Ogly and Mr. Stroud escaped unhurt. The warriors were believed to have been led by Savannah Jack, who committed the Butler Massacre a week later. Early in March 1818, because of hostile Indian threats, Thomas Gary built a stockade or block house on his property along the Federal Road in what is now northwest Butler County, about two miles west of where Fort Dale was later built. Because Gary charged protection fees, dissatisfied settlers petitioned the Alabama territorial government for another fort. After the Ogly-Stroud Massacre, Capt. Sam Dale and his militia came from Fort Claiborne to defend settlers in the area. When the militia built Fort Dale, people stopped using Gary's stockade. Thomas Gary died April 23, 1818, and was buried in the Fort Dale Cemetery, where his is the oldest marked grave in Butler County.