Charles Clements Reagan

b 27 Jul 1857, Gatlinburg, Sevier, Tennessee
d 07 Feb 1930, 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
Charles Clements Reagan  d 23 Apr 1845 b 1741  
|Rebecca Ann Bradley Alexander Whaley  
|m 29 Apr 1880 Middleton Whaley b 1748  
|Sugarlands, Sevier, Tennessee |b 1800 Abigail Leverich  
Sarah 'Sally' Whaley  d ABT 1850 1860 b 1752 Thomas Ogle >
 b 25 Jan 1819 | William 'Billy' Ogle Elizabeth Robeson
 d 05 Dec 1901 Rebecca Ogle b 1756 John Frederick Huskey
 b 1782 Martha Jane Huskey Rebecca Washington
 d ABT 1870 1880 b 09 Dec 1756

Children

1 Alice Reagan
2 < Luther 'Cap' Reagan
3 < Mary Idena 'Mollie' Reagan
4 Reagan
5 < Walter Lee 'Granddad' Reagan
6 < Cora Ethel Reagan
7 Lillie Mae 'Aunt_Didd' Reagan
8 Orlando Reagan
9 < William Evert 'Bill' Reagan
10 < Ernest S. 'Shot' Reagan
11 < Stella Evelyn Reagan

Notes

Charles Clemson spent his life in Gatlinburg. He was a blacksmith and farmer. He and Rebecca lived at first on a farm on Panther Creek, moving to the farm on the River Road about 1890. Here he had his blacksmith shop. While his father made the first wagon in the village, Charlie made the first wagon that crossed the mountain. He and his sons farmed much of what is now the upper part of the city of Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

He was a member of the Baptist Church and led the singing for many years, finally persuading the folks to choose another leader about a year before his death.

Rev. Richard Evans married C. C. and Rebecca at the Sugarlands. Both are buried in White Oak Flats Cemetery.

Source: 'Smoky Mountain Clans', Donald B. Reagan, 1974, p 25. 'Smoky Mountain Clans', Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 16, 45. 'Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3', Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 46. 'Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2', 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 145. 'Smoky Mountain Family Album,' Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 15. 'The Book of Ragan/Reagan', Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 177, 178. 'In the Shadow of the Smokies', Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 577.


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