Ephraim 'Uncle_Ephraim' Reagan

b 24 Aug 1833, Gatlinburg, Sevier, Tennessee
d 23 Jan 1924, Gatlinburg, Sevier, Tennessee John Ragan >
bur Gatlinburg, Sevier, Tennessee Timothy Reagan Mary Morrice
Richard Reagan b 1750 Clemant Trigg >
| b 1776 Elizabeth Trigg Mary Ann Fouracres >
Daniel Wesley Reagan  d 1829 b 1760 Johan Velten 'Valentine' Shultz
|b 15 Oct 1802 | Johan Martin 'Martin' Shults Maria Eva Stocker >
|d 25 Jan 1892 Julia Ann Shults b 1740 Heinrich Stentz >
|  b 1775 Juliana Stentz Maria Dorethea Bosserth
Ephraim 'Uncle_Ephraim' Reagan  d 23 Apr 1845 b 1741 Thomas Ogle >
|Nancy Elmina 'Callie' Bradley-2 + William 'Billy' Ogle Elizabeth Robeson
|m 21 Jan 1890 Thomas J. Ogle b 1756 John Frederick Huskey >
|, Sevier, Tennessee |b 1784 Martha Jane Huskey Rebecca Washington
Nancy Ogle  d 1862 b 09 Dec 1756  
 b 24 Aug 1810 |    
 d 18 Feb 1844 Sophia Bosley  
 b 1789    
 d 13 Jul 1857

Children

1 < Martha L. Reagan
2 Frank Reagan
3 < Isaac A. Reagan
4 < Zettie Reagan
5 Charles Reagan
6 < Richard L. 'Fishing_Dick' Reagan
7 < Callie Reagan
8 < James M. Reagan
9 < William Boyd Reagan

Notes

Ephraim was born in Gatlinburg and lived in the area all his life. He was a farmer and served from 27 June 1866 to 12 December 1871 and from 25 January 1886 to 13 July 1888 as a postmaster in Gatlinburg.

A story is told of his skill with a gun and his knowledge of the woods. It seems he was going in home late one night. Along about the old swimming hole in the Park, he heard a noise in the hemlocks overhead. The night was very dark and he could barely see an outline of something crouched in the tree above the river road. Knowing he had only one chance to shoot at whatever it was, he decided to risk it and fired. It fell to the road with a crash. Waiting a few minutes to be sure it was more that just stunned, Ephraim went up to it, examined a paw and knew at once 'it' was a 'painter'. Knowing the panthers usually traveled in pairs, he made tracks for home, Next morning he returned and found his panther still stretched across the road.

During the Civil War Ephraim served with the Union army in Company G, 6th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry. He enrolled 16 Sep 1862 and was mustered out 30 June 1865. He was described then as being 5 feet 7 inches tall, with dark hair, fair complexion and blue eyes.

Buried in White Oak Flats Cemetery.

Source: 'Smoky Mountain Clans', Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 16, 23. 'Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3', Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 10, 12, 129. 'Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2', Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 105, 153. 'Smoky Mountain Family Album,' Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 198. 'Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage', 1994, p 289.


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