Richard Reason 'Uncle_Dick' Reagan

b 12 Nov 1830, Gatlinburg, Sevier, Tennessee
d 17 Apr 1912, 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
Richard Reason 'Uncle_Dick' Reagan  d 23 Apr 1845 b 1741 Thomas Ogle >
|Sarah Sallie Bohannon-1 + William 'Billy' Ogle Elizabeth Robeson
|m 1848 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 < Nancy Elizabeth Reagan
2 < Mary Ann Reagan

Notes

Richard Reason lived all his life in the Gatlinburg area. Some time after the Civil War he moved his home and store to the Sugarlands.

R. R. Reagan served the district for many years as a Justice of the Peace and as a tax collector. He was the county sheriff from 1870 to 1874. When the Gatlinburg Post Office was established in 1856 by the U. S. Postal Department, Richard served from 12 December 1871 to 10 July 1883 as postmaster, but not the first.

Serving the Union during the Civil War, R. R. Reagan enlisted 16 Sep 1862 in Company E, 2nd Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry. A commissary sergeant, he was discharged 5 July 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee. His personal description at that time was: 5' 9' in height, dark hair, dark complexion and yellow eyes.

Richard R. Reagan and his second wife Martha Hurst are buried in the Ownby Addition Cemetery.

Source: 'Smoky Mountain Clans', Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 16, 17. 'Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3', Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 144, 171. 'Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2', 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 141, 146. 'Smoky Mountain Family Album,' Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 8. 'In the Shadow of the Smokies', Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 550, 29s.


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