Wilma Hillman, Interesting that you should mention the Lee's in relation to the Ragan's. I guess, I have never sent you (Judy Hoffstetter sent me) a family tree of Mary Agatha Deering. Judy got this family tree from the Kentucky Historical Society, I believe. But up through her line is a John Lee and John Lee, Jr. who I believe is the John Lee who married Becky Thompson. Now I can't say that John Lee is related to the family of Robert E. Lee but it seems to me if Mary Younger Ragan's mother is related to Lee's.....Anyways Judy Hoffstetter is going to hunt up the family tree and get back to you. Another item of interest is that on my Pittman side, and my gg grandfather, Francis Marion married Emma Younger, anyways his grandmother on his mother's side was a Shirley. Now this Shirley Family came from Barren County,KY before they went to McCleansboro, IL. Now I have not determined if this line came from the same line as those from the Shirley Plantation. I was also interested if Belle Starr was from my line, because she married into the Youngers. What I did find is that she is from a different line of Shirley's. There is a Shirley Family Association online, and they have done DNA. My Shirley line has been done. I can't think of the progenitor off hand. I would have to look it up. But Belle Star's exact line had not been done, but somebody on an adjacent line named Valentine Shirley had been done. And that is shown on this web site. I know that a Shirley family did live in Crab Orchard at the same time or around the same time the Youngers lived there. But also of interest is that there was a Shirley family that lived in Orange County, IN which is where Joshua Younger lived before moving to the next county up, where Bedford, IN is. In other family interest, Francis Marion Pittman's brother, Albert Judson Pittman married Sarah Shasteen(Chastein). Her g grandfather being a Jesse Shasteen who came from Wayne County, KY where the Chastein family lived on Little Otter Creek.No exact proof that he was a Chastein.But Emma's father, John B. Younger came to McCleansboro and married into the Braden family. He married Sara Margaret Reed Braden and his daughter, Florella Devers married Jacob Braden, parents being Albert Braden and Mary Ann Shasteen. Which makes me wonder about the relationship of Sophia Younger Ragan's, second husband Charles Braden. Who was a Minister in Southern Illinois.The Bradens in McCleansboro started several churches. Well, to top this all off Sarah Shasteen's gg grandmother on her mother's side I believe was Katherine Nall m. a George Trout in Nashville and they moved to McCleansboro. I have not determined who her father was. Also, on the Pittman side and I would have to look it up are some Raine or Raines or something similar and I know one of Peter Youngers daughters married a Raines.Now if any of these people relate from the Pittman side to the Ragon's is not known, but it's an interesting thought, although I have not drawn any conclusions due to lack of evidence, other than they were loosely related and all the names seem to fit.