The people who make Daddy Sam's tell us Sam Oglesby wanted to be a cowboy. In 1883, when he was 16, he rode a stagecoach from Virginia to West Texas. He went third class and had to ride on top. One night his hat blew off while he was sleeping. With his last $5.00 he bought a cowboy hat from a 14 year old girl at the general store in Mertzon, Texas. Two years later they eloped, against her father's strong and reasonable objections.

At the courthouse, they interrupted a trial and asked the judge to marry them. The judge stopped the trial and the jury served as witnesses. Then they went home to face the music.

Sam and Grandony Oglesby were married for over 50 years and raised eight children on a ranch with no running water or electricity. Everyone called him Daddy Sam.

They say that over the years the Oglesby family had a lot of picnics and made a lot of barbeque. Daddy Sam's Bar-B-Que Sawce was created on his ranch in West Texas and carefully nurtured through the generations.