Alicia, This Mollie RAGAN (1877-1957) was the daughter of Isaiah RAGAN (1842-1877) and his wife Susan Mariah MARTIN/RAGAN (1838-1905). She married Elijah REYNOLDS and they spent their entire married life in Eddyville, Pope Co., IL. Sorry, but I don't think she is the one you're looking for. If you need any more info on her let me know. Michael In a message dated 8/30/99 11:21:27 AM, ANortham writes: >In a message dated 08/30/1999 1:30:11 AM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] >writes: > ><< William Henry would have > been abt 5yrs 8 mo, John L. - 4 yrs 3 1/2 mo, Nerissa - 1yr 6 1/2 mo and > > Mollie was just a baby. They never knew their dad, probably had only >vague > memories of him. Hence they probably never talked about him to their > > children. So our family heritage was almost lost in that generation. > What a > tragedy that would've been! >> > > >Mike: > >Is anything known about the baby, Mollie? I am searching for a Mollie >who later became the mother of Mary Ragan Goodson, Randolph Co., AL. I >realize that Ragan was her married name, but I've discovered that it was >not at all "unusual" for same surname cousins to marry. > >Just wondering and still searching. > >Alicia

Janette, Thank you so very much for your help! I would like to give some input on this cemetery. First I'm certain that the name should be spelled RAGAN and not RAGON. I say this because Jeremiah RAGAN was the son of my 3g-grandparents, William RAGAN and Mary LEEPER. He was a brother to Alexander RAGAN, buried at the Stone Church Cemetery. He also had another brother named Isaiah RAGAN (my 2g-grandfather) who is buried in Pope County at the Sulpher Springs Church Cemetery. I understand that you're working on an update to the Hardin Co. cemetery book. Please be sure that the RAGAN cemetery is mentioned. You can say that it no longer exists, but if at all possible, please mention that William RAGAN and Mary LEEPER/RAGAN are probably buried there also. William & Mary moved to Hardin Co. about 1856, coming from Guernsey Co., OH. They were there in the 1860/1870 census', and Mary is listed as a widow in the 1880 census. I feel certain that this was probably a family plot on their own land. It might also help to mention the known location (which the late Leonard H. Farmer found) of: S 1/2 SE 1/4 Sec. 30, T 12 S, R 8 E. The location you mention as Rose Clare Pct. does offer me some confusion though because in the census' my family was located in McFarlan Pct. Have some of the lines been changed? Or is it possible that their home was close to the line which separates the two precincts? Perhaps it was just listed incorrectly by the census takers. You also mention that this cemetery was probably on the property of Bernard Hurford. Is he still around? Does he have an email address or a phone? How could I contact him, or whoever now owns this land? Do you suppose that he would mind a couple of genealogists coming over and looking around? I would sure like to locate this cemetery. My cousin Danny & I may get a chance to get over there and do a little searching, if at all possible. And another question - Once this book is complete how can I buy a copy? Thanks again for all your help Janette. I *really* appreciate you! Michael W. RAGAN 118 Main St Stevenson, AL 35772 In a message dated 8/28/99 9:36:27 PM, [email protected] writes: >Hi, > >The late Leonard H. Farmer from Elizabethtown made corrections in the >1970-80 edition of the Hardin County Cemetery Book. At that time he put >in >the coordinances for as many cemeteries as he could. The RAGAN cemetery >no >longer exists. I presume that means it is lost or destroyed. If you have >any additional names to add to this cemetery, please let me know. Only >two >are given both Civil War veterans probablay information from Otis Lamar's >veteran book. Their names are: > >Kinney, Thomas (Vet IL Pvt Armyu Co. A 29 Inf) d. March 13, 1892 > >Ragan, Jeremiah (Vet IL Pvt. Army Co. A 29 Inf) no dates. > >The cemetery is in Rosiclare probably somewhere on the Bernard Hurford >property according to the coordinance. > >Glad to be of help. > >Janette

Hello RAGAN-ROOTERs! This letter is a private email to my cousin Danny (John Daniel RAGAN), so don't read it. Just kidding ;-) Danny & I are discussing some family things and I thought you might find something interesting here. (Or you might be able to help us in some way.) Or you might just want to delete this whole thing and go about your business... whateveer. Danny, I have a little time before church so I thought I'd jot a few lines to you. I may have to finish later, but here goes. Thanks for making the photocopy of the article in that biography book. I'll be looking forward to getting it. Sorry I had to ask you to do that, but I believe that's what the SAR requires for proof. It's what they call 'secondary' proof. For the first 3 generations I need 'primary' proofs, like birth/death certificates ...etc. After that a 'secondary' proof is alright. My brother Brad just got a copy of William Henry RAGAN's death certificate for me, but under father it lists 'unknown'. Rats! So it looks like the article in that book will be the only proof I'll have that Isaiah RAGAN was William Henry's father. I now have mine, my dad's and my grandfather's birth certificates (primary proofs). And that article will tie William Henry to Isaiah RAGAN. The next step is to prove that Isaiah belonged to William RAGAN & Mary LEEPER. And that article should also do that. Of course we know it has her maiden name misspelled in the article as LEPER, but I think I can get around that by showing that William & Mary lived close to several LEEPER families in the different census'. And, of course, we can also show Isaiah in their household in the 1850 Guernsey Co., OH census and the 1860 Hardin Co., IL census records. The next step is to prove that Mary was the dau of Alexander LEEPER who was the son of Lt. Samuel LEEPER, officer in the Revolutionary War. Our cousin Edna has sent me some of that information already. I think I'll be able to now make all my links successfully. And once I've done that (and they've accepted it) it'll be published by the SAR and become what they call an 'established' lineage. Then anyone in the future, like you, your siblings, your children, or grandchildren, who wish to become a member of the SAR or DAR can do it by proving their lineage back to Isaiah RAGAN. And that should be an easy task for them. I'm curious about something Danny ... do you have a copy of your g-grandfather's death certificate? I wonder if whoever gave his info knew that his father was Isaiah. If Isaiah appears on John L. RAGAN's death certificate, then that might be some more proof for my application, since we know that William Henry and John L. were brothers. I figure that William Henry, and all the other children, were so young when Isaiah died that they knew very little about him. William Henry would have been abt 5yrs 8 mo, John L. - 4 yrs 3 1/2 mo, Nerissa - 1yr 6 1/2 mo and Mollie was just a baby. They never knew their dad, probably had only vague memories of him. Hence they probably never talked about him to their children. So our family heritage was almost lost in that generation. What a tragedy that would've been! Another gap we seem to have in our family is between William (ca 1795-bef 1880) and his father. Although I do *really* believe that his father was Reason RAGAN/REAGAN, I just can't seem to prove it yet. Donald REAGAN has looked at this link for me and has given his opinion that it most certainly *is* correct, but there just doesn't seem to be any actual 'proofs' to show. This should be a lesson to you & I about how important it is to pass our family history down to our children and grandchildren. I really want them to know their heritage. That's one of the reasons I've been printing out booklets on our family and giving it to family members. Everytime one of my siblings has a new child I'll do an Ahnentafel Report on that child and give it to their parents. Maybe somehow one of these reports will be available for some future relative to use for their own research one day. Perhaps it will be found in an old trunk tucked away in someone's attic. Not only have I done this for relatives, but I've also printed and given booklets to some libraries. I've given some to our local library, the Huntsville Public Library, and the Allen County Library in Ft Wayne Indiana. Have you ever been to that one in Ft. Wayne? As they would say around here "That's a Good 'un." They say it's about the best, second only to what the LDS have in Salt Lake City, UT. Of course I've also founded/moderated/sponsored the RAGAN-ROOTS email discussion group for the past several years. And that's been a real good experience for me. I've met many *very* nice people through this group. (Of course what would you expect to find among a group of RAGAN descendants? ;-) I've gotten a real good feeling being able to help others find their RAGAN/RAGIN/RAGON/REGAN/REAGAN (...etc.) roots. Plus I've been able to build and maintain our shared database (which I hope will be available for many years to come). Sometimes I have people contact me saying things like "I hear that you're 'The Main RAGAN Authority' and would like to know ...". Perhaps I have become "The Authority" here, but I still get a bit embarrased when they say that. Of course this database would not have been possible without the input of all our cousins/subscribers who have contributed to it. And I thank them all! This database really belongs to them and their descendants. I also started the RAGAN Family Web page at <http://www.genforum.com/ragan/> a couple years ago. And it now has several pages of information/inquiries posted about all variations of our surname. And that site has put many people in touch with one another, and our RAGAN-ROOTS group too. Well Danny I started thsi note/letter to you this morning and it's now getting close to 9:30pm. Of course I haven't been working on steady since then. After church Terry & I went to the local elementery school for lunch. They had a $5 lunch for a fund raiser and to let the public look over their new library/hi-tech multi-media room. And it was really nice! The kids will really get some nice 'hand-on' training with that new addition. Unfortunately a lot of them probably don't have computers in their homes. The only reason the school was able to afford the new room is because of so many low income families living in this area. They were able to get a 'two-fer-one' matching grant. They put up $8,000 and got $24,000 worth of hardware & software. Like I said it's a real nice set-up. So we got a cheap lunch and also helped the school with their fundraiser. After lunch we came home for awhile, relaxed a bit, I typed some more on this note to you (it's now starting to look like a book :). Then we went to the studio and picked up some equipment and went to Scottsboro to cover a family reunion at 4:00. We photographed a big family group and then did several breakdowns of different individual family portraits. It was a beautiful place to work. It was right on the Tennessee River, there were mountains, trees and the river in the background. Just a great place for outdoor portraits. Plus we had quite a few clouds, which gave us a lot of nice soft light to work under. Overcast skies are the absolute *best* for outdoor portraits. You know Danny, I really enjoy doing these family groups. Since discovering that family portrait of Isaiah & Mariah a few years ago I realize just how important it is to have an occasional family portrait done. You just never know where one of those photographs will end up. It also showed me (NOW HEAR THIS!) just how important it is to write on the back of your prints just who it is you're looking at. If it weren't for the fact that someone somwhere down the line had written Mariah's name on her individual photo we wouldn't have known who that family group was. And as far as I know those two original photos which my aunt had were the only ones left of that family. Since you didn't have a copy of it and our cousin Edna didn't either. I'm sure glad I was able to borrow it from Aunt Grace and make everyone copies. Now we'll always know what they looked like. I have an 8x10 of it hanging right above my computer. It hangs next to the rubbings I did of their headstones a few years ago when visiting you (I had them framed too). Well I'm kind of wondering off here. I started to tell you about our day didn't I? After covering the family reunion Terry & I went to the chinese restaurant in Scottsboro (we love that food :). I'm still full and it's now getting close to 10:00. My blood sugar will probably be outta site tonight. That reminds me of something else. As we record our family histories I think we should remember to record all medical information. Like my grandfather RAMER developed something called Percicious Anemia a few years before death, my father has high blood pressure, my mother was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis ca 1967, my brother Bradley & I developed diabetes at pretty young ages. Someday this info may prove important to our descendants. So let's tell them about it! Anyway after dinner we came back to the studio and unloaded our equipment, came home and picked up that copy of land records from the Illinois State Archives (a copy of which I already sent you). Then I took Terry to the church for choir practice, dropped her off and went over to my dad's house to visit him & June. They just returned today from a nice trip to Alaska. They were gone the whole month. They went to Michigan, visited some family, then flew to Alsaka. They spent a couple weeks playing the tourist role there and then took a cruise ship back. Sounded like they had a nice time. That is except for the fact that they both got a bit sick coming bacl on the ship. Dad developed pnemonia and is still under the weather a bit, but feeling better now. June did all the driving coming home. She a tough one. I couldn't have done that and I'm about 20 yrs younger then her. She's a "Good 'un" alright! I think dad enjoyed seeing those land records that our cousin Edna sent me. He has always wondered where his middle name came from and that certainly was proof. Now we wonder where Isaac Lason MARTIN's middle name came from. Well he was born in Tennessee (Bedford Co., we think), so now a search for the surname LASSON/LASON begins. (And Edna is already working on that.) It just has to be the maiden name of his mother or grandmother I think. Sometimes the clues come slowly don't they? Now I have another thing I want to discuss with you. It's that RAGON Family Cemetery we're looking for in Hardin Co., IL. As you know I found that note in the courthouse a couple years back that it had no longer existed because vandals had broken off the headstones ...etc. Well we now know, from discussions with people on the HardinCo discussion list that, the only ones noted buried there were Jeremiah RAGAN (no dates) and Thomas KINNEY (Died March 13, 1892). And we know that the only reason they were noted is because they were Civil War soldiers. Whatcha wanna bet that was our own family's cemetery? I plan to send Janette a note that I firmly believe the cemetery should be listed as RAGAN family, not RAGON. And I plan to tell her that I would be willing to bet that William RAGAN & Mary LEEPER/RAGAN are also buried there. It just *has* to be our family's cemetery since Jeremiah was one of their children. No doubt in my mind about that! And I wonder who this Thomas KINNEY was. Was he a close friend of the family or perhaps he was married to one of William & Mary's daughters that we haven't yet been able to track down? Any ideas here? I did a little searching today and found him in the 1880 Hardin Co. census. He was a 40yr old white male living in Rose Clare Pct. in the household of a Julius PUSHMAN. He was listed as a border, working as laborer, b. in Ireland as were his parents. At this point in time I don't know what happened to William & Mary's daughters Margaret, Nancy or Rachel E. RAGAN. Rachel was still at home with her mother in the 1880 census, William had passed away before the census was taken on 24 Jun 1880. I am now pretty sure that Eliza married Warren WILSON, I've located her in the 1870 census. I got this clue from the two grandsons (John CAMPBELL & Alexander WILSON) living with Mary & Rachel in the 1880 census. So we do know that one of the daughters must have been married to a CAMPBELL, another a WILSON. And maybe one married this Thomas KENNY. Hmmm... Boy it sure gets distressing to find that a courthouse has burned (in our case twice). :-( And wouldn't it be nice to have access to the 1890 census? That would sure help. Getting back to the cemetery ... Janette says that it's located at: S 1/2 SE 1/4 Sec. 30, T 12 S, R 8 E. (I wonder how hard that would be to find? I'll bet the courthouse could help us there.) And she said that: "The cemetery is in Rosiclare probably somewhere on the Bernard Hurford property according to the coordinance." (sic) Now how can we locate this Bernard Hurford? Is he still around? Does he have a phone? Could you check on that for me? I'll be glad to make the call. And if he does tell us that there's an old cemetery on his property, and we can go take a look, would you like to meet me there some weekend? I'd gladly make a trip to look it over. Since some Civil War group has stated they were buried there I wonder if they might have left a marker of some kind, like they did for Jeremiah's brother Alexander RAGAN who is buried at the Stone Church Cemetery. Hmmm... whatcha think cuz? Are we getting closer? It would sure be nice to find that site, locate the old broken headstones and find William & Mary's names. I'd like to look into this further. And soon because I understand that Janette is working on an update to the old cemetery book published back between 1970-80. The Hardin Co., IL Historical Society needs any information by December of this year. It would sure be nice to be able to give them some more info on our ancestors final resting place. Well I need to get to bed Danny. I have to be in Chattanooga early tomorrow morning for some tests and blood work. I hope you don't mind, but I'd like to send a cc of this letter to our RAGAN-ROOTS group, because I realized as I wrote it that someone there might get some pointers or help hearing how we track our family. Perhaps someone may offer us some suggestions (like "shut up Machael, you idiot"!). And some may 'Unsubscribe' from the list because I ramble so much ;-). Oh well, their loss I guess. So what if I'm a little crazy? I'm a RAGAN ain't I? I wish I could afford to retire. Then I could devote more time to tracking our roots. (Anyone wanna buy a photography studio?;-) Gotta go! Bye-bye. Michael W. RAGAN ============= RAGAN-ROOTS List Pervert ============ School days are the best days of your life...provided your children are old enough to go. ============ In a message dated 8/29/99 9:09:24 AM, [email protected] writes: >>Danny, > >> > >>Look what I just rcvd. Do you suppose we could find it now? > >> > >>Later Cuz! > >> > >>Michael > >>Hi Michael! I have your photocopy of Mariah. I'll get it in the mail. > >The Ragon cemetary was listed as 2 graves that no longer existed. The > >amount of info and sheer number of books overwhelmed me when I went to >the > >geneology library here in town. > >Still no luck on LACY. :-( Gotta go-getting ready for church. Danny

In a message dated 8/28/99 12:20:39 PM, [email protected] writes: >Hi Michael, > I was looking at the Probate Paperwork for Spencer RAGAN last night and >there are 3 more males that belong to his family who were alive when he >died - 30 May 1851: > >David RAGAN - living in Morgan Co., IL > >John RAGAN - living in Canton or Kenton, KY (In the Probate Papers, >Spencer died intestate, it looked like Canton Co, KY but looking at my >maps it doesn't look like there is a Canton Co in KY but there is a >Kenton Co, KY and when spoken maybe sounded like Canton.) > >Littleberry RAGAN - living in Morgan Co., IL > > Do you have a connection with RAGAN's from Kenton, KY? > > Suzi in CA Suzi, Here's a RAGAN family (John RAGAN & Elizabeth HARRIS) who were in Kenton Co., KY. I don’t see where any of them were ever in Morgan Co., IL though. Maybe this will give you some research clues. Good luck! ========== First Generation —————————————————————————————— 1. John RAGAN. Born on 15 Jan 1797 in Kentucky. John died in Kenton Co., KY on 21 Aug 1865; he was 68. On 12 Feb 1822 when John was 25, he married Elizabeth HARRIS, in Fayette Co., KY. Born on 18 Aug 1801 in Virginia. Elizabeth died on 8 Apr 1890; she was 88. They had the following children: 2 i. Thomas (1820-1903) 3 ii. Eli (1823-1895) 4 iii. Martha (1825-) 5 iv. George W. (1828-1902) 6 v. William David (1829-1897) 7 vi. John Jordan (1831-1901) 8 vii. Elizabeth (1833-) 9 viii. Spencer (1836-1906) 10 ix. Angeline (1838-1908) 11 x. Susan J. (1840-1895) 12 xi. Richard J. (1842-1917) 13 xii. Sarah E. (1844-1934) 14 xiii. Virginia Frances "Fanny"  Second Generation —————————————————————————————— 2. Thomas RAGAN. Born on 25 Nov 1820 in Fayette Co., KY. Thomas died in Kenton Co., KY on 7 Mar 1903; he was 82. On 3 Jan 1843 when Thomas was 22, he married Mary Ann MACKENZIE, in Kenton Co., KY. Born on 5 Sep 1819 in Bourbon Co., KY. Mary Ann died in Kenton Co., KY on 8 Sep 1892; she was 73. They had the following children: 15 i. David Mackenzie (1846-1920) 16 ii. Virginia Eliza (1860-1936) 17 iii. John James "Jack" (1843-1918) 3. Eli RAGAN. Born on 6 Mar 1823. Eli died on 22 Feb 1895; he was 71. On 19 Oct 1853 when Eli was 30, he first married Harriet Garrett RECTOR, in Kenton Co., KY. Born on 30 Mar 1836 in Kenton Co., KY. Harriet Garrett died in Kenton Co., KY on 1 Feb 1855; she was 18. They had the following children: 18 i. Harriet 19 ii. MEH On 18 Nov 1862 when Eli was 39, he second married Sarah Elizabeth CARTER, in Kenton Co., KY. They had the following children: 20 i. George Warren (1865-1937) 21 ii. Herbert "Harris" Ellis 22 iii. Flora 23 iv. SE (1861-1865) 24 v. E (1861-1865) 4. Martha RAGAN. Born on 14 Jan 1825. On 21 Dec 1850 when Martha was 25, she married William SMITH, in Kenton Co., KY. 5. George W. RAGAN. Born on 2 Feb 1828 in Kentucky. George W. died in Kenton Co., KY on 27 Dec 1902; he was 74. On 11 Aug 1864 when George W. was 36, he married Anna Margaret SMITH, in Kenton Co., KY. Born on 19 Feb 1844 in Kentucky. Anna Margaret died in Kenton Co., KY on 23 Jan 1926; she was 81. They had the following children: 25 i. Omar (1892-1903) 26 ii. Owen 6. William David RAGAN. Born on 7 Dec 1829 in Kenton Co., KY. William David died on 11 Jan 1897; he was 67. On 17 Dec 1863 when William David was 34, he married Rebecca Lewis DOUGHTY, in Kenton Co., KY. Born in Ohio. They had one child: 27 i. Mary Belle 7. John Jordan RAGAN. Born in Feb 1831. John Jordan died in Kenton Co., KY on 27 Mar 1901; he was 70. On 7 Jul 1859 when John Jordan was 28, he married Lucy Ann SPARROW, in Kenton Co., KY. Lucy Ann died on 28 Feb 1923 in Kenton Co., KY. They had the following children: 28 i. Robert Lee (1867-1914) 29 ii. Charles 30 iii. William 31 iv. Ella 32 v. Elbert 33 vi. John 8. Elizabeth RAGAN. Born on 20 Jun 1833. On 22 Nov 1854 when Elizabeth was 21, she married Woodford STEPHENS, in Kenton Co., KY. 9. Spencer RAGAN. Born on 2 Feb 1836 in Campbell Co., KY. Spencer died in Kenton Co., KY on 11 Jul 1906; he was 70. On 21 Nov 1862 when Spencer was 26, he married Minerva Isabella CORNELIUS, in Kenton Co., KY. Born in Kentucky. They had one child: 34 i. Fannie D. 10. Angeline RAGAN. Born on 15 Jan 1838. Angeline died in Kenton Co., KY in 1908; she was 69. On 5 Dec 1865 when Angeline was 27, she married Silas SPARROW, in Kenton Co., KY. Born in 1836. Silas died in Kenton Co., KY in 1909; he was 73. 11. Susan J. RAGAN. Born on 24 Feb 1840. Susan J. died in Kenton Co., KY in 1895; she was 54. On 1 Dec 1858 when Susan J. was 18, she married C Seabury ARMSTRONG, in Kenton Co., KY. 12. Richard J. RAGAN. Born on 22 Jun 1842 in Kentucky. Richard J. died in Kenton Co., KY on 23 Aug 1917; he was 75. On 18 Feb 1869 when Richard J. was 26, he married Sophronia Ann POPE, in Kenton Co., KY. Born in Kentucky. Sophronia Ann died on 3 Jan 1935 in Kenton Co., KY. They had the following children: 35 i. Florence 36 ii. Tina 37 iii. Eva 13. Sarah E. RAGAN. Born on 29 Sep 1844. Sarah E. died on 20 Feb 1934; she was 89. 14. Virginia Frances "Fanny" RAGAN. On 1 Aug 1867 Virginia Frances "Fanny" married David W. RECTOR, in Kenton Co., KY.  Third Generation —————————————————————————————— 15. David Mackenzie RAGAN. Born on 6 Mar 1846 in Kenton Co., KY. David Mackenzie died in Kenton Co., KY on 29 Jun 1920; he was 74. On 19 Jan 1866 when David Mackenzie was 19, he married Sarah J LAMBERT, in Kenton Co., KY. Born in Jun 1847 in Kentucky. Sarah J died in Kenton County, Kentucky. They had one child: 38 i. Bush Lambert (1867-1910) 16. Virginia Eliza RAGAN. Born on 14 Apr 1860 in Kenton Co., KY. Virginia Eliza died in Kenton Co., KY on 26 Oct 1936; she was 76. On 21 Apr 1881 when Virginia Eliza was 21, she married John Samuel RECTOR, in Kenton Co., KY. Born on 15 Mar 1859 in Kenton Co., KY. John Samuel died in Kenton Co., KY on 1 May 1938; he was 79. They had the following children: 39 i. Mary Frances (1887-1971) 40 ii. Thomas Russell (1882-1893) 41 iii. Lena Alice (1884-1890) 42 iv. John Roy (1891-1892) 43 v. Larral Raymond (1895-1910) 17. John James "Jack" RAGAN. Born on 18 Oct 1843 in Kenton Co., KY. John James "Jack" died in Campbell County, KY on 15 Aug 1918; he was 74. On 11 Aug 1864 when John James "Jack" was 20, he married Mary E IRWIN, in Kenton Co., KY. Born on 13 Jul 1846 in Kenton Co., KY. Mary E died in Campbell Co., KY on 9 Sep 1939; she was 93. They had the following children: 44 i. Charles Curry (1884-1961) 45 ii. George Earl (Lee) 46 iii. Edward T. 47 iv. William E. (-1951) 48 v. Nellie Mae 49 vi. Jennie Pearl (1875-1878) 50 vii. Ruby 18. Harriet RAGAN. 19. MEH RAGAN. MEH married Henry GROGER. 20. George Warren RAGAN. Born on 19 Apr 1865. George Warren died in Oct 1937; he was 72. George Warren married Effie Morrison RIGGS. Born on 27 Oct 1865. Effie Morrison died on 2 May 1952; she was 86. They had the following children: 51 i. David Yandell (1892-1960) 52 ii. Allen E. (1896-) 21. Herbert "Harris" Ellis RAGAN. Herbert "Harris" Ellis married Jennie BURNEY. Born in 1868. Jennie died in Kenton Co., KY on 31 Jan 1936; she was 68. They had the following children: 53 i. Hudson Burney (1898-1935) 54 ii. Margaret (1901-1923) 55 iii. Herbert (-1972) 56 iv. Flora (1911-) 22. Flora RAGAN. Flora married John OXLEY. They had the following children: 57 i. Margarette 58 ii. Floyd 23. SE RAGAN. Born on 26 Apr 1861. SE died on 11 Feb 1865; she was 3. 24. E RAGAN. Born on 26 Apr 1861. E died on 11 Feb 1865; she was 3. 25. Omar RAGAN. Born on 5 Nov 1892 in Kenton Co., KY. Omar died in Kenton Co., KY on 28 Feb 1903; he was 10. 26. Owen RAGAN. 27. Mary Belle RAGAN. 28. Robert Lee RAGAN. Born in 1867 in Kenton Co., KY. Robert Lee died in Kenton Co., KY in 1914; he was 47. Robert Lee married Anna S _?_. Born in 1872. Anna S died in Kenton Co., KY in 1963; she was 91. They had one child: 59 i. Helen Frances 29. Charles RAGAN. 30. William RAGAN. 31. Ella RAGAN. 32. Elbert RAGAN. 33. John RAGAN. 34. Fannie D. RAGAN. 35. Florence RAGAN. 36. Tina RAGAN. 37. Eva RAGAN.  Fourth Generation —————————————————————————————— 38. Bush Lambert RAGAN. Born on 21 Feb 1867 in Kenton Co., KY. Bush Lambert died in Pawhuska, Oklahoma on 26 Jun 1910; he was 43. On 6 May 1891 when Bush Lambert was 24, he married Johana HAWKINS, in Kenton Co., KY. Johana died on 7 Apr 1914 in Kenton Co., KY. They had the following children: 60 i. Kenneth Harrison (1897-1963) 61 ii. Snodia Evelyn (1898-1978) 62 iii. Carl Hawkins (1892-1937) 63 iv. Percival McKenzie (1901-1970) 64 v. Claudia Lucille (1895-1977) 65 vi. Jamerson David (1893-1894) 66 vii. Lambert Milton (1899-1912) 67 viii. Edward 39. Mary Frances RECTOR. Born on 17 Aug 1887 in Morgansville, Kenton County, KY. Mary Frances died in Campbell Co., KY on 29 Aug 1971; she was 84. On 24 Nov 1909 when Mary Frances was 22, she married Norval Henry ALLEN, in Dearborn Co., IN. Born on 2 Sep 1868 in Switzerland County, IN. Norval Henry died in Kenton Co., KY on 4 Sep 1942; he was 74. They had the following children: 68 i. David Russell (1919-1989) 69 ii. Virginia Lee (1916-1997) 40. Thomas Russell RECTOR. Born on 21 Jan 1882 in Morgansville, Kenton County, KY. Thomas Russell died in Morgansville, Kenton County, KY on 4 Nov 1893; he was 11. 41. Lena Alice RECTOR. Born on 27 Apr 1884 in Morgansville, Kenton County, KY. Lena Alice died in Morgansville, Kenton County, KY on 11 Mar 1890; she was 5. 42. John Roy RECTOR. Born on 29 Mar 1891 in Morgansville, Kenton County, KY. John Roy died on 14 Feb 1892 in Morgansville, Kenton County, KY. 43. Larral Raymond RECTOR. Born on 1 May 1895 in Kenton Co., KY. Larral Raymond died in Kenton Co., KY on 7 Mar 1910; he was 14. 44. Charles Curry RAGAN. Born on 4 May 1884 in Kenton Co., KY. Charles Curry died in Campbell Co., KY on 27 Feb 1961; he was 76. Charles Curry first married First Wife Of Charles Curry RAGAN. They had one child: 70 i. John Edwin (1908-1980) On 10 Jun 1924 when Charles Curry was 40, he second married Lucille Beulah CARTER. Born on 24 Jun 1904 in Vermillion County, IL. Lucille Beulah died in Campbell Co., KY on 26 Aug 1986; she was 82. They had the following children: 71 i. Mildred Ann (1927-) 72 ii. Virginia Lee (1929-1961) 45. George Earl (Lee) RAGAN. 46. Edward T. RAGAN. 47. William E. RAGAN. William E. died on 5 Jan 1951 in Campbell Co., KY. 48. Nellie Mae RAGAN. Nellie Mae married Scott GOSNEY. 49. Jennie Pearl RAGAN. Born on 16 Oct 1875. Jennie Pearl died in Kenton Co., KY on 7 Jan 1878; she was 2. 50. Ruby RAGAN. 51. David Yandell RAGAN. Born on 9 Apr 1892. David Yandell died on 13 Apr 1960; he was 68. David Yandell married Rebecah MEEK. Born on 17 Feb 1896. Rebecah died on 5 Apr 1960; she was 64. They had the following children: 73 i. Jane W. 74 ii. Mary M. 75 iii. George W 52. Allen E. RAGAN. Born in 1896. Allen E. married Charlotte HAARLAMMERT. They had the following children: 76 i. Nancy 77 ii. Jean 53. Hudson Burney RAGAN. Born in 1898 in Kenton Co., KY. Hudson Burney died in Kenton Co., KY on 6 Mar 1935; he was 37. 54. Margaret RAGAN. Born in 1901. Margaret died in 1923; she was 22. 55. Herbert RAGAN. Herbert died on 13 Mar 1972. Herbert married Mrs Herbert.... Mrs Herbert.. died in May 1959. 56. Flora RAGAN. Born in 1911. 57. Margarette OXLEY. 58. Floyd OXLEY. 59. Helen Frances RAGAN. Helen Frances married _?_ CONWAY.  Fifth Generation —————————————————————————————— 60. Kenneth Harrison RAGAN. Born on 1 May 1897 in Kenton Co., KY. Kenneth Harrison died in Woodland, California on 16 Jun 1963; he was 66. On 15 Jul 1925 when Kenneth Harrison was 28, he married Loretta Cornelia WHITE, in Chowchilla, California. Born in California. 61. Snodia Evelyn RAGAN. Born on 23 Aug 1898 in Kenton Co., KY. Snodia Evelyn died in Kenton Co., KY in Jun 1978; she was 79. Snodia Evelyn married Oliver W. YOUNG. 62. Carl Hawkins RAGAN. Born on 6 Jun 1892 in Kenton Co., KY. Carl Hawkins died in Kenton Co., KY on 31 Jul 1937; he was 45. 63. Percival McKenzie RAGAN. Born on 23 Jul 1901 in Kenton Co., KY. Percival McKenzie died in Los Angeles, CA on 31 Jul 1970; he was 69. Percival McKenzie married Bettie Jo _?_. 64. Claudia Lucille RAGAN. Born on 23 Sep 1895 in Kenton Co., KY. Claudia Lucille died in Kenton Co., KY in Aug 1977; she was 81. Claudia Lucille married Grover LaFLOWER. 65. Jamerson David RAGAN. Born on 12 Aug 1893 in Kenton Co., KY. Jamerson David died on 5 Jul 1894 in Kenton Co., KY. 66. Lambert Milton RAGAN. Born on 29 Dec 1899 in Kenton Co., KY. Lambert Milton died in Oklahoma City, OK on 5 Jan 1912; he was 12. 67. Edward RAGAN. 68. David Russell ALLEN. Born on 2 Aug 1919 in Kenton Co., KY. David Russell died in Hamilton County, OH on 23 Aug 1989; he was 70. On 23 Jun 1945 when David Russell was 25, he married Sara Lee WHITEHEAD, in Hamilton County, OH. Born on 27 Dec 1917 in Carroll County, KY. 69. Virginia Lee ALLEN. Born on 23 Nov 1916 in Kenton Co., KY. Virginia Lee died in Kenton Co., KY on 5 Nov 1997; she was 80. On 3 Aug 1940 when Virginia Lee was 23, she married Clayton Robert PETIT, in Jefferson Co., KY. Born on 11 Jun 1907 in Scott County, IN. Clayton Robert died in Kenton Co., KY on 9 Nov 1988; he was 81. 70. John Edwin RAGAN. Born on 17 Mar 1908 in Hamilton County, OH. John Edwin died in Campbell Co., KY on 13 Feb 1980; he was 71. 71. Mildred Ann RAGAN. Born on 19 Dec 1927 in Hamilton County, OH. 72. Virginia Lee RAGAN. Born on 11 Aug 1929 in Hamilton County, OH. Virginia Lee died in Franklin County, KY in Feb 1961; she was 31. 73. Jane W. RAGAN. 74. Mary M. RAGAN. 75. George W RAGAN. 76. Nancy RAGAN. 77. Jean RAGAN. —————————————————————————————— Michael W. RAGAN ============= RAGAN-ROOTS List Moderator ============= 118 Main St Stevenson, AL 35772 (256) 437-8651/8282 [email protected] ============= He Says: "You know how bad my memory is." He Means: "I remember the theme song to 'F Troop', the address of the first girl I ever kissed and the Vehicle Identification Numbers of every car I've ever owned, but I forgot your birthday." =============

Help! I am trying to find information on Polly Ragan, who married Matthew Galloway on Jan. 21, 1805, I believe in Oglethorpe Co. GA, although she could have been from NC or SC. I know they settled in Oglethorpe and Matthew later died in Elbert Co. GA, but I have no birth or death dates or places for Polly. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks! Bonnie Carlson

Suzi, I have your family entered into our database now. Thanks for sharing your information with us. Michael In a message dated 8/27/99 2:21:22 PM, [email protected] writes: >Hi Michael, > Do you have the Morgan Co, IL site address? It's >www.rootsweb.com/~ilmorgan/morgan.htm - I have already sent in all >but 1 deed that I got when I was in Jacksonville last month. I'll be >getting the probate papers on the site, hopefully, this weekend. But >here's what I have: >Spencer RAGAN b. 1766 MD > d. 30 May 1851 Morgan Co, IL >spouse - Elizabeth b. 1766-1780 > d. 1847-1850 Morgan Co, IL >Children: >Mary Ann RAGAN b. 1803 KY > d. 1 Jan 1877 Jacksonville, Morgan Co, IL > bur: Jacksonville East Cemetery - lot unknown > m. 9 Feb 1818 Fayette Co, KY >Spouse: William TAYLOR > M2: George RITCHIE/RITCHEY > >Sarah RAGAN b. 1810-1816 KY > d. before 30 May 1851 > (her children were the heirs in Spencer's Will) > m. 30 Nov 1825 Fayette Co., KY >Spouse: Will HUNTER > >Henry RAGAN b. 1811 KY > d. > m. 28 Sep 1837 Morgan Co., IL >Spouse: Sarah WING > >William RAGAN b. 1813 KY > d. Bef 15 Sep 1908 IL > m. 9 Nov 1837 Morgan Co., IL >Spouse: Mary Ann SELF (There are obits for Mary Ann SELF RAGAN & her >family in the Cass Co., IL site but William's is not there.) > >George RAGAN b. 1822 KY > d. > m. 11 May 1843 Morgan Co., IL >Spouse: Elizabeth C. BLACK (There is information about Elizabeth BLACK's >family on the Morgan Co. site.) > >Mary Ann and William TAYLOR had several children. The first that we can >verify was Spencer TAYLOR, named after Mary Ann's father. His son >Anderson was my great grandfather. > Suzi

Hello Everybody, I'm researching Ragans in the town of Perry, Georgia, located in Houston County. Anyone else reseaching this family? Daniel

Michele, Yes you did send me your info on 4 Apr 1999. You didn't have a James Arthur though. You sent me a James ROGAN and an Arthur ROGAN. Two different people (unless I misunderstood). I'll paste a copy of a report on your family below (including the email you sent to the group). If you'd like to send me an update on the names, dates, places (...etc.) I'll be glad to make any additions/corrections. Here's what I have on your lineage: ================ 1 _?_ ROGAN —————————————————————————————— Children: James William Hugh John 1.1 James ROGAN —————————————————————————————— 04/04/99 email from: [email protected] (Michele Rogan) ========= Hello everyone, Thank u for letting me join!! My grandfather name is James Rogan or maybe at one time it was O'Rogan in Ireland? He grew up in Dublin. James m Mary Mckenna. James brother's are: Willie...Hugh....John....there are more but not sure what there names are yet.....he had a sister that had a big dairy farm in Londenderry. One of his brother's worked in a shoe company in London. James invented "rig for rivets" with is father in law "Arthur Mckenna". James Mother died when he was very young, his father died a short time after. James had to take care of is younger brothers for lots of years. When I gather more info. I'll let you all know. Oh my Dad was born in Clydebank Ireland in 1918. Thank you, Michele Rogan Spouse: Mary McKENNA Father: Arthur McKENNA Children: Arthur (1918-1999) 1.1.1 Arthur ROGAN —————————————————————————————— Birth: 1918, Clydebank, Ireland Death: 22 Feb 1999 Children: Michele 1.1.1.1 Michele ROGAN —————————————————————————————— 1.2 William ROGAN —————————————————————————————— 1.3 Hugh ROGAN —————————————————————————————— 1.4 John ROGAN —————————————————————————————— —————————————————————————————— Michael W. RAGAN 103 Spring St/118 Main St Stevenson, AL 35772 (256) 437-8651/8282 [email protected] ================ "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century." -- Vice President Al Gore, 9/15/95 ================ In a message dated 8/24/99 7:55:04 AM, [email protected] writes: >Micheal, > >Did I ever send u my names to put in your data base? So everyone can read > >it. This caugh my eye, James Arthur Ragan....I have a James Arthur Rogan >and >Arthur Joseph Rogan in my line. > >Thank you, >Michele Rogan

--part1_4f7cc686.24f3efad_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Micheal, Did I ever send u my names to put in your data base? So everyone can read it. This caugh my eye, James Arthur Ragan....I have a James Arthur Rogan and Arthur Joseph Rogan in my line. Thank you, Michele Rogan --part1_4f7cc686.24f3efad_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-zd05.mx.aol.com (rly-zd05.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.229]) by air-zd01.mail.aol.com (v60.28) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:15:01 -0400 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by rly-zd05.mx.aol.com (v60.25) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:14:43 -0400 Received: (from [email protected]) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA23935; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:13:41 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:13:41 -0700 (PDT) From: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:09:58 EDT Old-To: [email protected], [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL for Macintosh sub 54 Subject: [RAGAN-ROOTS-L] James Arthur RAGAN 1825-1910 Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1536 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Evelyn, Looking through our database I can't seem to make any links for you. Sorry. I am a bit interested in your family though because I had some family that used to live in Arkansas. My grandfather's sister (Ersa Maria RAGAN, 1895-1983) and her husband (Charles Wesley OLIVER, 1891-1967) lived in Paragould. I remember my grandfather making trips there and I remember him mentioning Little Rock. I do know there were quite a few RAGANs who moved from TN to AR. (Many of these are listed in our RAGAN-ROOTS database.) In fact the Postmaster General of the Confederate States, John H REAGAN, seems to have traveled through there a time or two. If I remember correctly his father, Timothy Richard REAGAN, died in Fulton Co., AR while on a trip from TN to TX. As for getting a copy of our database GedCom you can visit our cousin Bill REAGAN's site at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/billreagan/ The latest copy (Jun 1999) is available there. I think the last one I sent to Bill had a little over 31,000 people in it. I should export another copy soon since we now have over 32,500 in our current file. Evelyn I now have your family entered into our database. I would be glad to enter anything else you'd care to send too. Best wishes, Michael W. RAGAN ============= RAGAN-ROOTS List Moderator ============ Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup? ==============>from [email protected]<======== I am attaching a list of Ragans from our family tree. We have no information prior to James Arthur born in Tennessee and would sure like to make a connection to someone. Also, can you tell me how to pick up the Ragan gedcom. I did that about 6 months ago, but have lost my notes on it. Sure would like to find a connection to someone out there. 1 James Arthur RAGAN b: November 4, 1825 d: August 4, 1910 . +Martha A (RAGAN) b: December 8, 1830 d: February 16, 1902 m: Abt. 1850 2 Martha E RAGAN b: Abt. 1851 2 Louisa Jane RAGAN b: October 22, 1854 d: December 15, 1912 ... +Ernest BROWN m: March 4, 1877 *2nd Husband of Louisa Jane Ragan: ... +John Benjamin GREGORY b: August 15, 1853 d: October 24, 1922 m: November 11, 1881 Father: Bob Gregory Mother: Margaret Word 2 William F RAGAN b: Abt. 1857 2 Theodore RAGAN b: Abt. 1859 2 Jane Flora RAGAN b: February 14, 1869 d: 1952 ... +Thomas Greenbrier BROWN b: April 10, 1855 d: August 18, 1946 m: November 1, 1885 Father: James W Brown Mother: Francis Laurena Vandegrift Prepared by Evelyn Brown 23818 Barry Lane Little Rock, AR 72210 August 18, 1999 Thanks! And we enjoy your Ragan Roots stuff. Evelyn Brown ================= ==== RAGAN-ROOTS Mailing List ==== You can search the RAGAN-ROOTS archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl then type in: ragan-roots --part1_4f7cc686.24f3efad_boundary--

Evelyn, Looking through our database I can't seem to make any links for you. Sorry. I am a bit interested in your family though because I had some family that used to live in Arkansas. My grandfather's sister (Ersa Maria RAGAN, 1895-1983) and her husband (Charles Wesley OLIVER, 1891-1967) lived in Paragould. I remember my grandfather making trips there and I remember him mentioning Little Rock. I do know there were quite a few RAGANs who moved from TN to AR. (Many of these are listed in our RAGAN-ROOTS database.) In fact the Postmaster General of the Confederate States, John H REAGAN, seems to have traveled through there a time or two. If I remember correctly his father, Timothy Richard REAGAN, died in Fulton Co., AR while on a trip from TN to TX. As for getting a copy of our database GedCom you can visit our cousin Bill REAGAN's site at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/billreagan/ The latest copy (Jun 1999) is available there. I think the last one I sent to Bill had a little over 31,000 people in it. I should export another copy soon since we now have over 32,500 in our current file. Evelyn I now have your family entered into our database. I would be glad to enter anything else you'd care to send too. Best wishes, Michael W. RAGAN ============= RAGAN-ROOTS List Moderator ============ Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup? ==============>from [email protected]<======== I am attaching a list of Ragans from our family tree. We have no information prior to James Arthur born in Tennessee and would sure like to make a connection to someone. Also, can you tell me how to pick up the Ragan gedcom. I did that about 6 months ago, but have lost my notes on it. Sure would like to find a connection to someone out there. 1 James Arthur RAGAN b: November 4, 1825 d: August 4, 1910 . +Martha A (RAGAN) b: December 8, 1830 d: February 16, 1902 m: Abt. 1850 2 Martha E RAGAN b: Abt. 1851 2 Louisa Jane RAGAN b: October 22, 1854 d: December 15, 1912 ... +Ernest BROWN m: March 4, 1877 *2nd Husband of Louisa Jane Ragan: ... +John Benjamin GREGORY b: August 15, 1853 d: October 24, 1922 m: November 11, 1881 Father: Bob Gregory Mother: Margaret Word 2 William F RAGAN b: Abt. 1857 2 Theodore RAGAN b: Abt. 1859 2 Jane Flora RAGAN b: February 14, 1869 d: 1952 ... +Thomas Greenbrier BROWN b: April 10, 1855 d: August 18, 1946 m: November 1, 1885 Father: James W Brown Mother: Francis Laurena Vandegrift Prepared by Evelyn Brown 23818 Barry Lane Little Rock, AR 72210 August 18, 1999 Thanks! And we enjoy your Ragan Roots stuff. Evelyn Brown =================

Dear Cousins, Friends and Family, Please keep the family of Thad L. Ragan, Sr. and his daughter Ms Ivon RAGAN in your thoughts and prayers in the coming weeks. I just rcvd the following msg from her. Michael In a message dated 8/22/99 9:01:58 PM, [email protected] writes: >I just thought I would let you know that my Dad, Thad Louis Ragan, (92 >years old) died August 18, 1999. I just got back from the funeral that >was held at Crocket's Bluff Cemetary in Crocket's Bluff, Arkansas >(Sunday 8/22/99). I am very sad! The Cemetary is filled with Ragan's. >When I don't feel so bad, I am going there and write all the information >down off the tombstones. > >I sure do miss my Dad! There were so many Ragan's and kinfolk at the >funeral - I didn't know half of them. > > >Ms. Ivon L. Ragan >Redfield, Arkansas

Hello Cousins! This came in my mail today (from [email protected]), but I can't seem to find her family in our database. Can anyone of you help her? Michael W. RAGAN =========== RAGAN-ROOTS List Moderator =========== The U.S Post Office printed 100 million stamps of the Grand Canyon. On the stamp it says "Grand Canyon, Colorado." I say if you don't know what state the Grand Canyon is in, you should not be delivering the mail ... you should be making maps for NATO. -- Bill Maher, Host of ABC's Politcally Incorrect =============== Hello, I am interested in the listserv you have for the above names and how to subscribe. I am trying to trace Hannah Burke O'Regan who moved to Boston from Ballyoughtera, Creagh, Co. Cork, Ireland about 100 years ago. I know she had a daughter who married a Grant. Hannah was my great-grandfather's sister and also the one who sponsored my grandmother to come to America. Hannah's father was Timothy Randal Burke and her grandfather was Randle Burke. The daughter, a favorite cousin of my grandmother had a sad life. The story is her father died one Saturday, her husband the next and her son the third Saturday. I would like to know more about this line if you can help me connect with folks searching these lines. Thank you! Sharon Centanne Irish Genealogical Research Instructor ===========

Thanks Mike for RaganRoots. Another researcher of my line has shown up on RR, one line I have been searching for for a long time. But we still connot locate the parents and siblings of Wm and Jane Ragan in Caroline Co., Va.. Thanks again man. Walt Reagan

I am searching for the parents and siblings of William C. Reagan, born in 1815 and who was in Tishomingo Co. MS by 1850. According to census records, he was born in VA as were his parents and his wife, Candis Elizabeth (?). The children of William and Candis were: Mary A., Martha J., George W., Elizabeth F., Colesta E., Josephine, Francis C., Thomas J., and Candis C. The first three children were born in TN, and the other six in MS. Recently, Michael posted the family of Nathaniel Ragan and Catherine Young who had a son named William, also born in 1815. Does anyone have any further information about this William? I have wondered if he could be the William I am searching for. Would love to hear from anyone with any theories. Thanks. Sue Clark [email protected]

Bea, It looks like we do have your family in our RAGAN-ROOTS database. I'm forwarding this email to our discussion group. Perhaps one of our cousins can help us fill in some more information. As far as I can tell I'm not directly related to this lineage, but you never know since some of my family does come from that area. The following is an email I rcvd from [email protected] in Nov of last year: ============ 16 Nov 1998 email from: [email protected] ============ Am seeking information on John Ragan who had a daughter Roxanne in the 1700's she married Thomas Carroll and they had 5 children John A George W Unknown Louella and Maude Louella was my grandmother she was sent to live with Dr John Treacy in Pittsburgh Pa when Roxanne died in 1880 It is said Thomas went to New York to work on the Brooklyn Bridge but I have not been Abel to verify story the only other sibling i have found was maud she married and arron nagle and lived in Somerset and Boswell most of her life If you can supply me with any leads it would be appreciated theresa thanks ============ Bea I'll be glad to enter your info into this lineage (and anything else you'd care to send). I'd also like to invite you to join our RAGAN-ROOTS discussion group (now 287 subscribers). Instructions are below. Best wishes, Michael W. RAGAN ============= RAGAN-ROOTS List Moderator ============ ---> RAGAN-ROOTS Email Discussion List<--- For discussion of the following variations of the surname: RAGAIN * RAGAN * RAGIN * RAYGAN * REAGAN * REGAN * REGEN * RIAGAN * RIAGAIN * RIGAN * RIGGAN * RIGGIN * RAGON * RIGGEN (As well as other variations) Discussion is also open to the Irish forms of the surname such as: O'RAGAN * O'RAGAIN * O'REAGAN * O'REGAN * O'REGANE * O'RIAGAN * O'RIAGAIN * O'RIEGAINE ... etc. You can suscribe to the list by sending a message to: [email protected] that contains only the word: subscribe Nothing else goes in the message area. Anything can go in the subject line (it's ignored). ============= In a message dated 8/20/99 11:34:14 PM, Kuhnbea writes: >Hi Michael, My name is Beatrice Kuhn. My grmother was Elizabeth Luella >Carroll Donahue. I was so excited to see your info on the internet. My >sister and I have been searching everywhere but to no avail for info on >the Carroll's and Ragan's. The info we have on the Carroll children is >Mary A. b. 3/1870, John Andrew b. 12/26/1872, George W. b. 3/21/1875, Maud >C. b. 3/1877 (married to Aaron Nagle, they had 7 children), Elizabeth Luella >b. 12/13/1878 d. 3/20/1962 (married to Edward Alyosius Donahue, they had >8 children), Elsie Mariam b. 11/20/1880 d. 10/25/1881. They lived in Cresson, >Pa./Summit, Pa. we have baptismal records from St. Aloysius Church Cresson, >Pa. for George, John, Elizabeth Luella, and Elsie Mariam, we do not have >records for Maud or Mary. My grmother only knew Maud. She wasn't aware >of other siblings until later in life. John was coming from New York to >meet my grmother but took ill and returned home and she never did get to >meet him. When Roxanne died my grmother was sent to an orphanage in Pittsburgh >and was raised by Dr. John P. Treacy and his wife Martha (Mattie) Rattigan. > We think there is a family connection between Carroll or Ragan to the >Rattigans but we haven't figured it out yet. Annie Rattigan and her sister >Ella R. McConnell lived in Cresson. It seems to me there must have been >some connection otherwise how did my grmother end up with the Rattigan >connention. We have quite a large relationship a lot of the Donahue's >still reside in Erie, Pa. There is also a quite a connection between the >Donahue's and Wilwohl's. My mother Anna Eunice Donahue married Raymond >A. Wilwohl and her sister Catherine Donahue married Edward Wilwohl from >their unions at last count there were 173 I know that number is higher >now. Now questions for you Michael how are you related in all this confusion!!!! > HaHa. I'm certainly looking forward to hearing from you, I'm sure we >have a lot of notes to compare. By the way are you familar with names >Andrew Sharbaugh, Agnes McDonald, John Boland Isabella Irwin, Josephine >Criste, Francis Criste, Anna Criste as these were the sponsors names on >the baptismal certificates. If this note seems all jumbled it is only >because I am so excited to find someone out there with some links. Sincerely, >Bea > >PS I have info on the Nagle's. Also I would like to know how we are related. > God bless you and you family. There are also relatives living in Lilburn, >Georgia by the name of Joyce and Ed Donahue.

--part1_d910b61d.24eeb1d2_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Cousins! Here's some Bible records sent to me from a Jim IRBY. Enjoy, Michael W. RAGAN =========== RAGAN-ROOTS List Moderator =========== I'm so ugly...My mother had morning sickness - after I was born. - RODNEY DANGERFIELD =========== --part1_d910b61d.24eeb1d2_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: [email protected] From: [email protected] Full-name: Jasirby Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:48:15 EDT Subject: Ragan-Fritts Bible Records To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 22 Dear Mr. Ragan: >From the Spring 1979 issue of SAGA Vol. Vl No. 1 Page 43. The Saga of Southern Illinois. A quarterly publication of the Genealogy Society of Southern Illinois-Carterville 62918. RAGAN-FRITTS BIBLE RECORDS. Copied by Mary J. Capps, Carbondale, Illinois. Mr. James C. Ragan of Rockwood Co., State of Tennessee and Miss Sarah A. Fritts of Loudon Co., Tennessee were married at Loudon, Tennessee on 20 May 1883 by W.C. Wadkins, Esq. Witnesses: C.C. Nicklson and Miss Nannie King. Births: Jasper Levi Fritts- 11 May 1859 Sarah A. Fritts- 11 May 1863 John W. Fritts- 27 February 1869 Joseph W. (N?) Fritts- 19 February 1874 Oliver C. Ragan- 31 May 1884, Rockwood, Tennessee Pearlie May Ragan- 20 December 1886, Rockwood, Tennessee Walter C. Ragan- 31 July 1891, Oliver Springs, Tennessee Arthur C. Ragan- 31 July 1894, Briceville, Tennessee James C. Ragan- 22 August 1897, Corbin, Kentucky Joseph C. Ragan- 22 August 1897, Corbin, Kentucky Edna A. Ragan- 31 January 1904, Briceville, Tennessee Deaths: Pearlie May Ragan- died 05 September 1888 Joseph C. Ragan- died 22 August 1897 Nancy A. Fritts (mother)- died 31 December 1895 at Red Ash, Kentucky Martha A. Ragan- died 20 October 1904, aged 82y 5m 20d at Post Oak Springs, Tn. James C. Ragan, Sr.- died 27 February 1936, Boyd, Illinois (His father was Joe) Sarah A. Ragan- died 24 October 1954, aged 91y 5m, Benton, Illinois Michael, I thought there were some marriages, but there are none listed. Just a note regarding the Stone Church Cemetery located 2 miles north of Rosiclare, Il. I grew up just about 300 yards south of the cemetery. I used to play in that cemetery as a child. It is out in the country and we owned some land near the cemetery where my father built our home in 1940. There is a frame church house at the cemetery. It used to be of stone, thus the name of the cemetery. The land for the church and the cemetery was given as a gift by Isaac Hawkins. Isaac's son married my father's sister, so Isaac's son was my uncle by marriage. Uncle Ernie Hawkins passed away Oct. 1995 at the age of 83 yrs. If I find additional information, I will forward it to you. Best wishes, Jim Irby --part1_d910b61d.24eeb1d2_boundary--

I hope this works: Through your columns I would like to contact the descendents of DANIEL O'REGAN, a farmer in Cork County (parish unknown) whose daughter ELLEN, born 1827, left Cork during the great potato famine, and married WILLIAM HALL of Clapham, London, in 1856. Shortly afterward they emigrated to New Zealand where they lived in Hawkes Bay rearing three children, Robert, Caroline who was my grandmother, and Emma. In 1981 the descendents held a family reunion and published a book to celebrate the 125 years since William and Ellen Hall arrived in New Zealand. 466 cousins came to the party! Now I would like to meet my cousins from County Cork, so if you've ever wondered what happened to your great aunt Ellen O'Regan (or Regan, or Ragan) who emigrated for foreign shores 125 years ago please drop a line to Mrs Rae Nicholls, 12 Belgrave Place, Palmerston North, New Zealand. Hooray! It did! Cheers Rae

Hi, Just FYI, I received this from another list. Hope it is helpful to my Ragan Cousins. ---- you wrote: > --------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:45:33 EDT > Subject: [DENTON-L] Fw: WWI Draft Cards > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Forwarded From Another List: > > M. Dean Hunt > Louisville, KY > > Good Morning everyone: I played hooky from work yesterday and spent the > day at the NARA Branch in Atlanta and it jogged my memory to pass on > some information to everyone. > > Prior to the US's entry into WW1 (approx. 1917-1918) every male between > the age of 18 and 40 was required to register for the draft. The > information found on the card was provided by the individual himself. > The registration cards vary in information depending on the individual > draft board. But by and large the cards include: The full name of the > person (this means first, full middle name, any additional middle names > and last name); the current address of the man; his age; his birthdate > (some include his place of birth); whether he is a US citizen or a > naturalized citizen (some ask if his father was a naturalized citizen > and his father's race); his race; his occupation; where he is employed > (name of employer); address or location of employment; name and address > of his next of kin; some cards ask if the man is married or single and > how many people he supports. The card is signed by the draftee. On the > back of the card his physical description is > noted: Height is broken down by short, medium, tall although some cards > give the > actual height in feet and inches; Build by slim, medium, stout although > some cards list actual weight along with the build; color of eyes and > hair; any deformities or injuries are listed (such as one arm missing, > blind in one eye, etc); the name and address of the draft board and the > date. > > When these original cards were transferred to the East Pointe NARA > branch the LDS spent about 3 years microfilming these cards. There are > hundreds and hundreds of boxes and the LDS opened one box at a time and > filmed them - in state order. However, within each state the cards were > filed by draft board, not by county or by draftee. This makes the > searching of the microfilm difficult to say the least. > > The good news is that the Friends of the National Archives took each box > after it was filmed (and checked) and sorted all of these thousands and > thousands of cards into - state and then COUNTY order and then in > alphabetical order by surname and put then in new boxes. The Friends > deserveall the kudos we can give them for this monstrous task. > > So ... rather than spending hours and hours searching the LDS microfilm > you can order copies of the original cards from NARA. if you know the > county your ancestor lived in between 1917-1918. > > And BTW - Ancestry.com lists WW1 Draft cards in their searchable data > bases, however I know for a fact that there are 22 cards for the surname > WHITE found in McIntosh Co, OK and Ancestry only gave me 4 of them so > don't depend on that site. I was told yesterday that some reps from > Ancestry had visited the archives a couple of weeks ago to talk about > filming the cards, took one look at the hundreds and hundreds of boxes > and simply left. > > For copies: Send a letter requesting copy(s) to: > NARA > Southeast Region > 1557 St. Joseph Ave > East Point, GA 30344 > > In your letter be sure to say you want copy(s) of the WWI Draft > application Cards. Include the name of your ancestor and his race, the > state and the county. If you want copies of ALL of the cards with a > given surname, ask them the cost of the copies and send a SASE for them > to let you know the copying cost. In your letter be sure and say you want > a copy of the FRONT and BACK of the card. Be sure to send a SASE for the > return of you copies. > > The cost for the copy is 50 cents - 25 cents for the back and 25 cents > for the front. If you only want one copy send a buck and say the > difference is to be given to the Friends of the Archives, because after > all they did all this wonderful hard work for you <VBG> > > If you have any other questions about the cards please write to me and > I'll try to help. I've been "delving" into these cards for the past few > years. But PLEASE don't ask me to get the copies for you. It is > difficult for me to take the time off from work to visit the archive to > do my own research <g>. > > And feel free to pass this on to any of the lists you are on. > > > > > > ==== ROBERTS Mailing List ==== > Mailing List Archives may be found at: > http://newsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > (Enter "roberts" as the list you want to search - without quotes). > > ============================== > Search more than 274 MILLION NAMES and find your ancestors at Ancestry.com! > Get started today at http://www.ancestry.com/rootswebtext.asp > - ----------------------------------------------------------- Get free personalized email at http://www.switchboardmail.com

Dear Cousin Lloyd, It looks like your family is in our database already. I found a Natahniel Simpson RAGAN whos birth & death dates match that of your Nathaniel S. RAGAN. Our info shows him to be the father of a Nathaniel Francis RAGAN. And Nathaniel F. had a son named James Oscar RAGAN. Could this be your grandfather 'Oscar'? My bet is that he's the one! If this does turn out to be your family then our database has a truckload of new cousins for you. Please look this report over and let me know if he is the one. Then I'd like to have you send any info we're lacking. Info like your grandfather's birth date & place, his spouse's name and her info, their children and their info. Plus whatever you'd care to share on your immediate family - father, mother, aunts, uncles, cousins and their info, plus spouses. Our RAGAN/RAGIN/RAGON/REGAN/REAGAN (...etc) database just keeps on a growing. NEAT-O! Keep your family information coming cousins! The following is an Ahnentafel Report starting with this James Oscar RAGAN going back as far as we currently can (always looking for more ;-): =======> Begin Ahnentafel Report <============ Source —————————————————————————————— 1 James Oscar RAGAN. Parents —————————————————————————————— 2 Nathaniel Francis RAGAN. Born on 2 Feb 1863 in Tippah Co., Ms or Hardeman Co., Tn. Nathaniel Francis died in Hardeman County, Tn on 23 May 1926; he was 63. abt 1884 when Nathaniel Francis was 20, he married Nannie Catherine McCLENDON, in Hardeman Co., TN. They had the following children: i. Lizzie (1885-) ii. Edgar Eugene (1888-) iii. Geo. Nathaniel (1891-) iv. Mary Jane (1892-) v. Jacob William (1894-1967) vi. Elizabeth (1896-) vii. Marie (1897-) viii. Hattie Lee (1899-) 1 ix. James Oscar x. Samuel Tillman 3 Nannie Catherine McCLENDON. Grandparents —————————————————————————————— 4 Nathaniel Simpson RAGAN. Born on 19 May 1820 in Hickman Co, TN. Nathaniel Simpson died in Hardeman County, Tn on 18 Jun 1907; he was 87. On 10 Feb 1842 when Nathaniel Simpson was 21, he married Mary VINSON, in Hardeman County, Tn. They had the following children: i. Tennessee ii. William (1843-) iii. Paul S. (1845-) iv. Elisha (1847-) v. Bennet (1849-) vi. Martha (1851-) vii. Sarah E. (1853-1941) viii. Mary C. (1855-1907) ix. Jemima (1860-) 2 x. Nathaniel Francis (1863-1926) 5 Mary VINSON. Born on 28 Feb 1825 in N.C. Mary died in Hardeman County, Tn on 30 Dec 1908; she was 83. G Grandparents —————————————————————————————— 8 Nathaniel RAGAN. Born on 20 Aug 1787 in Person County, NC. Nathaniel died in Hardeman County, TN abt 1845; he was 57. abt 1810 when Nathaniel was 22, he married Catherine YOUNG, in Dickson County, TN ? They had the following children: i. John (1811-) ii. Cinthy (1812-) iii. Samuel Young (1814-1902) iv. William (1815-) v. Jesse (1816-) vi. Jemima S. (1818-1898) 4 vii. Nathaniel Simpson (1820-1907) viii. Bennet Carrol (1822-) ix. Elisha (1827-1872) 9 Catherine YOUNG. Born on 22 Sep 1788 in 96 District, SC. Catherine died in Hardeman County, TN on 28 Oct 1861; she was 73. Buried in Keith Cemetary In Mississippi. Occupation: Housewife. GG Grandparents —————————————————————————————— 16 Nathan RAGAN. Born bef 1770 in MD? Nathan died in Dickson County, TN in Feb 1835; he was 65. Buried in Dickson County, TN. Nathan married Elizabeth _?_. They had the following children: i. John? (<1770-) ii. William? (~1773-) iii. Jesse? (~1775-) iv. Lewis? (~1785-) 8 v. Nathaniel (1787-~1845) vi. Bennett 17 Elizabeth _?_. Elizabeth died aft 1835.  Index McCLENDON Nannie Catherine 3 RAGAN Bennet child of 4 Bennet Carrol child of 8 Bennett child of 16 Cinthy child of 8 Edgar Eugene child of 2 Elisha child of 8 Elisha child of 4 Elizabeth child of 2 Geo. Nathaniel child of 2 Hattie Lee child of 2 Jacob William child of 2 James Oscar 1 Jemima child of 4 Jemima S. child of 8 Jesse child of 8 Jesse? child of 16 John child of 8 John? child of 16 Lewis? child of 16 Lizzie child of 2 Marie child of 2 Martha child of 4 Mary C. child of 4 Mary Jane child of 2 Nathan 16 Nathaniel 8 Nathaniel Francis 2 Nathaniel Simpson 4 Paul S. child of 4 Samuel Tillman child of 2 Samuel Young child of 8 Sarah E. child of 4 Tennessee child of 4 William child of 8 William child of 4 William? child of 16 VINSON Mary 5 YOUNG Catherine 9 _?_ Elizabeth 17 =======> End Ahnentafel Report <============ Michael W. RAGAN ============== RAHAN-ROOTS List Moderator ============== For a human Reply Send a Self-Abused Stomped Antelope To: Michael Ragan 118 Main St Stevenson, AL 35772 (256) 437-8651/8282 [email protected] =================== Yesterday, scientists for the USDA suggested that men should take a look at their beer consumption, considering the results of a recent analysis that revealed the presence of female hormones in beer. The theory is that drinking beer makes men turn into women. To test the finding, 100 men were fed 8 pints of beer each. It was then observed that 100% of the men gained weight, talked excessively without making sense, became overly emotional, couldn't drive, failed to think rationally, argued over nothing, and refused to apologize when wrong. No further testing is planned. =================== In a message dated 8/18/99 7:43:17 PM, [email protected] writes: >Hi, I'm Lloyd Wayne Ragan Jr. I live in Jackson, TN and my Ragan Roots >are in Hardeman Co. TN. My Grandfather was Oscar Ragan and his father >was Nathaniel Ragan and Nathaniels father was Nathaniel S. Ragan b. 19 >May 1820 to 18 June 1907 >I was wondering if any of ya'll could help me go further. I think the >elder Nathaniel came from N.C. but my father said he thought he >(Nathaniel S.) came from Ireland. >Top O the mornin to ya! >Lloyd

Hi, I'm Lloyd Wayne Ragan Jr. I live in Jackson, TN and my Ragan Roots are in Hardeman Co. TN. My Grandfather was Oscar Ragan and his father was Nathaniel Ragan and Nathaniels father was Nathaniel S. Ragan b. 19 May 1820 to 18 June 1907 I was wondering if any of ya'll could help me go further. I think the elder Nathaniel came from N.C. but my father said he thought he (Nathaniel S.) came from Ireland. Top O the mornin to ya! Lloyd