| b 08 Oct 1818, Gatlinburg, Sevier, Tennessee | ||||
| d 06 Mar 1905, Palestine, Anderson, Texas | John Ragan | > | bur Palestine, Anderson, Texas | Timothy Reagan | Mary Morrice |
| Richard Reagan | b 1750 | Clemant Trigg | > | |
| | b 1776 | Elizabeth Trigg | Mary Ann Fouracres | > | |
| Timothy Richard Reagan | d 1829 | b 1760 | Johan Velten 'Valentine' Shultz | |
| |b 1797 | | | Johan Martin 'Martin' Shults | Maria Eva Stocker | > |
| |d 1847 | Julia Ann Shults | b 1740 | Heinrich Stentz | > |
| | | b 1775 | Juliana Stentz | Maria Dorethea Bosserth | |
| John Henninger Reagan | d 23 Apr 1845 | b 1741 | ||
| |Edwina Moss Nelms-2 + | |m 23 Dec 1852 | Joseph Lusk | ||
| |Anderson, Grimes, Texas | | | |||
| Elizabeth Lusk | ||||
| b 1799 | | | Roberts | ||
| d 1831 | Sarah 'Sally' Roberts | Dickerson | ||
| Dickerson | Ralph | |||
| 1 | < | John Edwin Reagan | 2 | < | Edwina Reagan | 3 | Anna Reagan | 4 | < | Elizabeth May 'Bessie' Reagan | 5 | < | Diana Nelms Reagan | 6 | Reagan |
A brief summary of his accomplishments includes: surveyor of public lands in Texas; lawyer, admitted to the bar in 1846; state representative 1847-1849; district judge, 1852-1857; Representative to U. S. Congress, 1857-1861; delegate to Secession Convention of Texas in 1861; Postmaster General of Confederacy; acting Secretary of Confederacy. In 1875 he was a member of the State Constitutional Convention; U.S. Representative, 1875-1887; U. S. Senator from Texas, 1887-1891; a member of State Railroad Comission, served as chairman 1897-1903.
John was imprisoned after the Civil War presumably for his high post in the Confederacy.
John H. returned to his birth place only once, 22 August 1900, after sixty-three years absence. He and his wife received a heartwarming reception in Sevierville where he spoke at the Courthouse and received friends at a reception later. He spent two days visiting with his cousins in Gatlinburg.
John H. Reagan reared his first wife's two sons.
John H. Reagan died and was buried in East Hill Cemetery, Palestine, Anderson County, Texas.
Source: 'Smoky Mountain Clans', Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 8, 10. 'Smoky Mountain Family Album,' Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 9. 'The Book of Ragan/Reagan', Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 46, 47-49. LaFaye Sutkin GEDCOM, 18 December 1995.