I found several entries in the HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE, a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association, that offered some interesting information on Reagans in Texas. Thought I would pass it along. Lana Reagan Robinson REAGAN, TEXAS. Reagan is at the intersection of State Highway 6 and Farm Road 413, nine miles southeast of Marlin in southeastern Falls County. It was established in 1873, shortly after the Waco and Northwestern Railroad completed the section of track between Bremond and Ross. A post office opened that year and was named for William Reason Reagan,qv who gave land for the townsite. During the mid-1880s the community had two steam gristmills, nine cotton gins, five general stores, two hotels, a church, a district school, and 250 residents. By 1890 Reagan had grown to 500 residents and had a weekly newspaper, the Herald. The community in 1905 had two one-teacher schools with 117 black students and one three-teacher school with 140 white students. The reported population of Reagan reached a high of 600 in 1914, when the town included a bank and assorted other businesses. The number of residents fell to 500 by the mid-1920s and to 353 by the early 1940s. The Reagan schools were consolidated with the Marlin Independent School District in 1948. Reagan lost its rail service in 1965, when the Southern Pacific abandoned the section of track between Bremond and Waco. By the early 1970s the Reagan population had fallen to 200, and it remained at that level through 1990. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jana Hubby, "Folklore and Legends of Falls County," Texas Historian, November 1980. Vertical File, Texas Collection, Baylor University. Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl REAGAN, ROCKY (1883-1975). Rocky Reagan, cattleman, rodeo and stock-show promoter, and writer, was born to C. Green and Alabama Harrison (Edwards) Reagan in Helena, Texas, on August 7, 1883, the youngest of eight children. His father, an early country doctor in South Texas, gave Rocky a heifer calf the day he was born. Rocky at one time controlled 125,000 acres of grazing land on which he ran 4,000 cattle, 1,500 Spanish goats, and sixty saddle horses. He also trained quarter horses as cutting horses and judged cutting-horse contests. For many years he and his children staged rodeos, such as those in Beeville, Kingsville, Laredo, and Corpus Christi. Reagan was a director of both the San Antonio and South Texas livestock shows. He also assisted in promoting oil and gas development in South Texas. For some sixty years he was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Beeville. He joined the Evergreen Masonic Lodge in Oakville in 1904. He worked with the Campus Christian Fellowship at Texas A&I University and with both Boy and Girl Scouts. Reagan wrote two volumes of tales at the insistence of J. Frank Dobie.qv The first, Rocky's Chuck Wagon Stories (1968, revised in 1969), was followed by Rocky's Yarns in 1973. He also wrote a biography of his father, G. P. Reagan-Country Doctor (1963), and a history of the Masonic lodge in Oakville. In 1907 Reagan married Eula Louise Cleveland, who bore him seven children. After her death in 1930 he married Annie Lee Burns Littlejohn. He died on April 11, 1975, at his home near Three Rivers. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Beeville Bee-Picayune, April 21, 1975. Harold Severson, "Sure! We All Know Rocky Reagan," Cattleman, July 1942. Ernest B. Speck REAGAN, WILLIAM REASON (1830-?). William Reagan, lawyer and settler in the townsite of Reagan, the fifth of six children of Timothy and Elizabeth (Lusk) Reagan, was born in Sevier County, Tennessee, on March 17, 1830. He lived in Knoxville, Tennessee, until 1845, then set out for Texas with his father to join John H. Reagan,qv William's brother. The elder Reagan died in Arkansas in 1847. In 1849 William Reagan became a citizen of Texas. By 1850 he resided in Henderson County with John, a younger brother, and a sister. He attended McKinney College in Red River County. In 1854 he received a land patent of 640 acres in Falls County. He taught school in the old Union Church in Marlin for two years, read law in his spare time, and was admitted to the bar in 1857. In 1858, while running for district attorney in Falls County, he argued with his opponent, Charles Stewart,qv at a picnic. Stewart drew a gun, fired at Reagan, and hit a bystander. Reagan resided in Falls County in 1860, owned no land, and had only $800 in personal property. In the Civil Warqv he volunteered for the Thirtieth Texas Cavalry. Later he served as enrolling officer of Falls County and once took the mail to Richmond. In 1865 he was appointed county judge for Falls County. By 1871 he owned 2,846 acres and a town lot in Falls County. He donated land on July 1, 1873, to the Houston and Texas Central Railway. In 1874 he moved to Reagan. In 1879 he moved to Georgetown, apparently to improve opportunities for his children's education. He continued to practice law. Reagan was a Methodist and a Democrat. He married Elizabeth Stanley of Fairfield, Texas, in 1856, and they had three sons and a daughter. Elizabeth died in 1868. Reagan married Sarah M. Harper of Robinson County in 1873; they had two daughters and a son. Reagan wrote a letter from Falls County in 1885 in defense of his sons who were charged with horse stealing. In 1889 he resided in Williamson County and owned 271 acres of land, but by 1890 he was no longer in Williamson County. He left Texas or died before 1900. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Biographical Encyclopedia of Texas (New York: Southern, 1880). Dallas Herald, July 24, 1858. Roy Eddins, ed., and Old Settlers and Veterans Association of Falls County, comp., History of Falls County, Texas (Marlin, Texas?, 1947). Ben H. Procter, Not Without Honor: The Life of John H. Reagan (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1962). Lisa C. Maxwell