Our RAGAN women, especially the Cherokee ones, live well into their 90s and 100s. My grandmother, who is a Ragan granddaughter, is 88 and still pushing a lawnmower, driving a car, volunteering two days a week at a homeless shelter and cooking more food than we will ever eat. Her older sister, Erin, is stomping the globe as we speak. And, like the previous respondent said, they grew up eating what they grew in the garden, drinking milk warm from the cow and water untreated out of the spring. They used homeade honey to sweeten and, with a family of 12 children, each one took a hoe after a breakfast of cornbread and sorghum syrup, hit the fields to hoe and hand pick the bugs off the corn. Their old place still stands. Sometimes I would just like to be a time traveler! Alicia

--part1_a7.13e2faf.25bf07ff_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_a7.13e2faf.25bf07ff_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-za03.mx.aol.com (rly-za03.mail.aol.com [172.31.36.99]) by air-za01.mail.aol.com (v67_b1.21) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:07:39 -0500 Received: from m12.boston.juno.com (m12.boston.juno.com [205.231.101.194]) by rly-za03.mx.aol.com (v67_b1.21) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:07:36 -0500 Received: "SS/u36V/h6x2VdZPJrkLUuXWkSHJ7k/DaipY0bUYQ1KTTJLY8AuhVw==" Received: (from [email protected]) by m12.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id EW5GAB6X; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:07:33 EST To: [email protected] Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:05:36 -0500 Subject: Re: [RAGAN-ROOTS-L] Fwd: Oldest Reagan Message-ID: <[email protected]> X-Mailer: Juno 3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: Ralph A Reagan <[email protected]> My Grandfather Austin Greely Reagan was 1889-1981 --part1_a7.13e2faf.25bf07ff_boundary--

--part1_9c.13b8134.25bf07d0_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_9c.13b8134.25bf07d0_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-yd02.mx.aol.com (rly-yd02.mail.aol.com [172.18.150.2]) by air-yd05.mail.aol.com (v67_b1.21) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:39:32 -0500 Received: from veger.ktis.net (veger.ktis.net [208.220.174.2]) by rly-yd02.mx.aol.com (v67_b1.21) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:39:26 -0500 Received: from jatr ([63.88.25.14]) by veger.ktis.net (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO203a ID# 0-39367U5000L500S0) with SMTP id AAA13486 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:39:25 -0600 Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "JO REAGAN" <[email protected]> To: "Michael Ragan" <[email protected]> Subject: Longevity Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:40:08 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 So, far, Lula Ragan's daughter (Alice's great aunt) is the oldest living Reagan/Regan/Ragan? She will be 98 in June? All others seem to have married into the family. Their longevity bodes well for the next few generations, but they aren't direct ancestors. (My niece has a living 103 year old great aunt, but she isn't mine. ) A thought. If Alice's great aunt is having a birthday in June, would it be fun to have a card shower? Alice could set up an address for us to send the cards. We don't know the woman but as you always say, "we're cousins." JoAnn R. --part1_9c.13b8134.25bf07d0_boundary--

--part1_48.c1a0eb.25bf06f9_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_48.c1a0eb.25bf06f9_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-zb02.mx.aol.com (rly-zb02.mail.aol.com [172.31.41.2]) by air-zb02.mail.aol.com (v67_b1.21) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:25:15 -0500 Received: from veger.ktis.net (veger.ktis.net [208.220.174.2]) by rly-zb02.mx.aol.com (v67_b1.21) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:25:08 -0500 Received: from jatr ([63.88.25.63]) by veger.ktis.net (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO203a ID# 0-39367U5000L500S0) with SMTP id AAA2878 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:25:07 -0600 Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "JO REAGAN" <[email protected]> To: "Michael Ragan" <[email protected]> Subject: Longevity Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:25:51 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Wow! This is interesting! Does anyone have a two person life span longer than 184? (My grandmother died at 89 and her niece is still alive at 95. But neither is/was a Reagan. (Brodericks)) Any two person 200 year life spans in the Reagans/Ragans/Regans? Michael, I am sending this to you because I don't know how to send it to the Roots Mailing List. Wouldn't it be interesting to find the oldest Reagan and the longest lived and the 2 person span closest to 200 years? Who has room on their web page? JoAnn R. --part1_48.c1a0eb.25bf06f9_boundary--

In a message dated 1/24/00 6:11:32 PM, [email protected] writes: >Since I am just beginning my search, can anyone direct me to any web sites > >regarding this surname. > >Thanks. Joan Joan, Here're the ones I know about. If anyone has any others (or corrections to this list) just let me know. Michael W. RAGAN ============ RAGAN-ROOTS List Moderator ============ ================= You can search the RAGAN-ROOTS archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl then type in: ragan-roots =========== http://home.ici.net/~bennabre/rogan1.htm http://infoseek.go.com/Titles?col=WW&qt=Rogan&sv=IS&lk=noframes&cc=WW&oq=north ern+ireland http://www.gendex.com:8080/display?page=individuals&surname=ROGAN&level=0&firs t=+/Rogan/&last=Kristina+/ROGAN/ http://genweb.net/~ckenter838/ckenter838.html http://www.genforum.com/ragan/ http://members.aol.com/yaseu/index.html http://www.geocities.com/~murphwillson/gene/Reagan.html http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/billreagan/ http://www.uftree.com/UFT/WebPages/Randall_Regan/REGAN/index.htm http://netministries.org/see/churches/ch00240 http://www.uftree.com/UFT/WebPages/Randall_Regan/RAGAN/index.htm http://www.davidregan.com/ http://gnbi.com/REGAN/maillist/Msgindex.htm http://www.smokykin.com/reagan.htm http://members.aol.com/rrclough/ragan.htm/ http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/8415/regan.html http://www.uftree.com/UFT/WebPages/MurphyRiggan/RIGGAN/index.htm http://208.139.226.16/ <-David REGAN http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irvmitchell/Reagan/Reagan.html <--Irv Mitchell's QUEST Reagan text page http://www.geocities.com/~murphwillson/gene/Reagan/photos.html <--Reagan photo page ==== RAGAN-ROOTS Mailing List ==== Become a Sponsor of RootsWeb, why not support them today for all they have done for the world of genealogy? To find out how to become an Official RootsWeb Sponsor visit: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html Michael Ragan 118 Main Street Stevenson, AL 35772 (256) 437-8282 or 437-8651

Hi Cousins, My ggg-grandfather, Nathan Ragan/Ragon, b. ca 1755, d. ca 1835, has a son, George W. Ragan, b. 3, Aug,1824 and died 12 Oct. 1914. Father and son total lifespan approximately 160 years. James

Hello from western Washington! My paternal side of the family is the Regan (originally O'Regan) group. I have traced them back to the late 1700s, and it seem that all the men have died very early: gg grandfather died 57 yo, g grandfather died 37 yo, grandfather died 58 yo, father died 54 yo, my brother and I are both in our 60s. The principal cause of death seems to be heart disease. On another matter, I would be very grateful if someone could help me locate the family of Clem Regan, son of William Regan. Clem was born circa 1906. The rumor is that he passed away in either Oregon and Washington, but I cannot seem to confirm that with death indices. In case you might be interested, my gg grandfather's brother John O'Regan went to Australia and then to New Zealand in the middle of the 1800s looking for gold. I have a 12 page letter he wrote to his grand niece Nellie in Glendive, Montana. The letter was written in 1899 from Auckland, N.Z. Recently I came in e-mail contact with a young woman from Auckland researching such letters, and she says she can help me locate information on old John O'Regan, someone of whom nothing is known by his family except for the letter. The letter, by the way, contained a lot of interesting family history. Happy New Year! Dennis Regan.

Since I am just beginning my search, can anyone direct me to any web sites regarding this surname. Thanks. Joan ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

This carries over into the female lines also, as Aunt Bead Bender (Isaac Payne, wife Jane/Joan Ragan of Rowan County, NC, James Payne her grandfather and her mother Sarah Francis Payne who married a Huntington) they lived into their 90's and even one son Oscar Huntington lived to just a few days short of this 102nd birthday. And mostly in good health and memory. For the most part these families lived on the land as farmers, dairymen, etc. and ate basic food raised on their land. Makes a person wonder doesn't it... Pat Mitchell of Bloomington, IN

Regarding the longevity of the REAGANS...unfortunately I only have information on ONE Reagan...my great-grandmother, Sara Francis 'Fannie' Reagan-Rowland...she only lived 50 years. 1854-1904...what a shame. So glad the rest of you got to enjoy your Reagans......... Bren [email protected]

A Ragan tribute not often discussed but by which probably many an Irish toast drunk has been drunk unto it (which probably led to yet another situation deserving of a toast!). And then the Cherokee half of us could whoop out our peace pipes and have a naming ceromony. Anyway, Grangrats to Joan's, (was it) Granpa? ANW

I'm sorry, but I have to add my great aunt here. She was not of Ragan blood was born in Canada of hard working English immigrants. Great Aunt Jane was born in 1888 and lived to 103 years and almost 9 months. She lived in a small ocean community and worked hard all of her life until the last 5 years, when my aunt had to put her and her baby sister in a nursing home. Until that time she lived in her own house After she retired she would go back to work if she wanted anything expensive. She was a teacher, a secretary and taught illeterates at the Army base. But I think that the hard work, self reliance, and plain good eating and living says a lot for these old timers. Maybe we could all learn a lesson from them. Suzi ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.

--part1_34.8c66fd.25bde8de_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_34.8c66fd.25bde8de_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-yb04.mx.aol.com (rly-yb04.mail.aol.com [172.18.146.4]) by air-yb04.mail.aol.com (v67_b1.21) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:29:17 -0500 Received: from corp.olin.com (corp.olin.com [206.1.147.2]) by rly-yb04.mx.aol.com (v67_b1.21) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:29:07 -0500 Received: from eadc-exc-02.corp.olin.com ([138.105.244.180]) by igate.corp.olin.com with ESMTP id <115266>; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:41:03 -0600 Received: by eadc-exc-02.corp.olin.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <DCJW0TAG>; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:28:05 -0600 Message-ID: <[email protected]m> From: "Meno, Debbie S ONWLK" <[email protected]> To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> Subject: Longevity Importance: high X-Priority: 1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:41:03 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Michael! It must run in the Regan family -- my great grandmother, Margaret Regan, was born in 1865 and died in 1962, making her 97 years old at her death. Good stock those Regans! Regards, Debbie --part1_34.8c66fd.25bde8de_boundary--

--part1_65.1009afd.25bde5df_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_65.1009afd.25bde5df_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: [email protected] From: [email protected] Full-name: CARHAR Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 10:35:30 EST Subject: Re: [RAGAN-ROOTS-L] Fwd: Oldest Reagan To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 44 My grandfather, Josiah Ragan, died in 1937 at the age of 96 years 8 months. Harvey Ragan --part1_65.1009afd.25bde5df_boundary--

--part1_87.ff3af8.25bde59c_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_87.ff3af8.25bde59c_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: [email protected] From: [email protected] Full-name: Ivnragn Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:59:47 EST Subject: Re: [RAGAN-ROOTS-L] Fwd: Oldest Reagan To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: CompuServe 2000 32-bit sub 67 My dad was 92 when he died this past August. Thad L. Ragan from Little Rock, Arkansas. I sure do miss him. He could sure tell some good old stories about the Ragan line. Ivon Ragan --part1_87.ff3af8.25bde59c_boundary--

Here's another record ;-) Can anyone top 112 yrs old? Seems like we have some pretty long lived/living relatives in our RAGAN families. Michael In a message dated 1/23/00 8:59:51 PM, [email protected] writes: >Hi, > >My gg grandfather John Henninger Reagan was 87. His son, John Edwin Reagan, > >was 83. His son, my grandfather, John Henninger Reagan II, was "only" >78. > >My mother, Mary Aline Reagan Chalfant is 83 today > >as today is her birthday! She is in excellent health except for arthritis. > >I might mention that John H. the first had an uncle on his mother's side > >that was 112 and an aunt, their sister that was, I believe, 102. Longevity > >may have come from the Lusk as well as the Reagans. > > > >Katie Crow

Here's the record so far. Anyone else? Michael In a message dated 1/24/00 10:39:32 AM, [email protected] writes: >I have a great aunt who was born in 1902 (a twin) whoes mother was Lula >Reagan. My great aunt is still alive and in a nursing home. She will >be 98 in June. > >Alice

--part1_98.cf1806.25bcff86_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello everyone. Here's a question from our cousin JoAnn. --part1_98.cf1806.25bcff86_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-zd02.mx.aol.com (rly-zd02.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.226]) by air-zd04.mail.aol.com (v67_b1.21) with ESMTP; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 17:04:57 -0500 Received: from veger.ktis.net (veger.ktis.net [208.220.174.2]) by rly-zd02.mx.aol.com (v67_b1.21) with ESMTP; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 17:04:49 -0500 Received: from jatr ([63.88.25.12]) by veger.ktis.net (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO203a ID# 0-39367U5000L500S0) with SMTP id AAA21408 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 16:04:47 -0600 Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "JO REAGAN" <[email protected]> To: "Michael Ragan" <[email protected]> Subject: Oldest Reagan Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 16:05:30 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 I was thinking about longevity and heredity. How old was the oldest Reagan/Ragan/Regan? And how old is the oldest living Reagan/Ragan/Regan. Our branch has one at 82 due to recent deaths. The oldest so far was 92. How about everybody else? JoAnn R. --part1_98.cf1806.25bcff86_boundary--

Joan, I'm sorry to say I haven't a connection at this point, but...would like to add that your ggfather has proven that it's NEVER too late to love!! Bren

Hello, I am new to the list and researching the Reagan name. My grandmother was Ellen Mary Ragan (Nalls) of Alexandria, VA. Her father was Daniel Reagan. I was told that when she married, her name was misspelled on the marriage certificate. Anyhow, her father Daniel Reagan had a small diary farm in Fairfax, VA. and was married to Kate Desmond. I know Ellen Mary had three brothers Tim, Dan, and ? and sisters (not sure of #) May, Margaret, Annie. Her grandfather's name was Jeremiah Reagan who, I was told, came over from County Cork (or maybe his parents?) He was married to a Fitzgerald. I think the most interesting thing I have learned is that my ggrandfather remarried after Kate Desmond died. He married a 23 year old woman named Isabel Mercer and supposedly had a child by her. He was 73. There was an article in the paper which I have asked my aunt to send me. Unbelievable! If you have any info on my relatives, I would appreciate it if you would get in touch with me and I look forward to visiting with you on this list. Thanks, Joan ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com