West Reagan

Other Events:

• Census: 1920, Sevier County, Tennessee
• Census: 1930, District 6, Sevier County, Tennessee

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 24, 29.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 153.
"Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 260.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 133.

Frank married Alice Huskey 5 Mar 1911, Sevier County, Tennessee. Alice (daughter of Zacharias Huskey and Sarah "Sallie" Bryant) was born 15 Mar 1895, Tennessee; died 28 Apr 1968; was buried Mattox Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1920, Sevier County, Tennessee
• Census: 1930, District 6, Sevier County, Tennessee

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 24, 29.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 153.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 133.

Other Events:

• AFN: 183T-2N

Notes:

Ephraim was born in Gatlinburg and lived in the area all his life. He is not listed in the 1850 Sevier County, Tennessee census. 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.
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Reference:
"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.

Ephraim married Nancy Elmina "Callie" Bradley 21 Jan 1890, Sevier County, Tennessee. Nancy (daughter of Andrew Jackson Bradley and Mary Elvira "Polly" Trentham) was born 10 Sep 1867, North Carolina; died 4 Apr 1919, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried 5 Apr 1919, White Oak Flats Cemetery, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: B71M-J9

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 23
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 105, 153.
Ephraim Reagan Civil War pension papers, US National Archives.

Other Events:

• Census: 1920, Sevier County, Tennessee
• Census: 1930, District 6, Sevier County, Tennessee

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 29, 106.

Zacharias married Sarah "Sallie" Bryant 20 Oct 1882. Sarah (daughter of A. W. Bryant and Margaret) was born 26 Mar 1857, Tennessee; died 1 Apr 1933; was buried Mattox Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1920, Sevier County, Tennessee
• Census: 1930, District 6, Sevier County, Tennessee

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 29, 106.

Other Events:

• AFN: 2DDT-XD

Notes:

Daniel moved with his parents to White Oak Flats (Gatlinburg) when he was about four years old. He lived all of his life here or on various other tracts of land in the area.

Listed as Ragan in 1850 Sevier County, Tennessee census as farmer with $1000 property unable to read or write.

An industrious man, Daniel began acquiring land before he married. In theTennessee State Library and Archives there are records of eight entries in his name, dating from 1824 to 1872. The state archivist says this was all purchased land. He is listed in the 1837 tax lists of Sevier County, Tennessee.

An 1859 grant, previously surveyed land, was resurveyed and entered probably because of Gatlin's extensive claim in the area and the Courthouse fire. This 1859 grant was for 600 acres up both sides of the river from Baskins Creek to the Two Mile Branch. In May 1866, he added another 640 acres to this holding. There are also grants for 1,000, 600, and 4,000 acres on Roaring Fork granted in 1839, 1868 and 1872. Most of this land was divided among his children - no will has been found. Daniel moved around and lived on several of his farms - his wife said after his death that she wanted to spend the rest of her years in one spot, she was so tired of moving. She spent her remaining years with her stepdaughter and her husband, Mariah and Thomas H. McCarter.

Daniel was a blacksmith as well as a farmer. Tradition says he built the first wagon in the settlement, making the wheels of one piece of split white oak. His son, Charles C. Reagan, built the first wagon that crossed the Smokies. Although no record has been found to verify it, Daniel probably served as a Justice of Peace. He did keep the community post office. When the settlement officially became Gatlinburg and the post office was established, Daniel and Joel Conner received the contract to carry the mail from Sevierville to Casher's Valley, South Carolina. Daniel's sons, Richard R. and Ephraim Reagan, served as postmaster in the village.

Definitely a Union man but too old to go to service during the Civil War, Daniel served as "muster" officer and drilled the men of the village out in the "Flats". He also served the community as food distributor. Because of his activities and his three oldest sons being in the Union army, he often had to hide out in the mountains to escape the Confederates. The youngest son, Charles C., often told of his father taking him to the woods and showing him the meat and food supplies he had hidden. Daniel didn't think the Rebels would bother the women and children and if he did have to hide out, then Charles must see that food was brought in for the people as it was needed---a big responsibility for a seven year old boy.

A civic minded man, Daniel furnished the meeting house for the village--the five sided building used for the school, church and "voting place". According to one of the land grants, this was located at the "mouth of the lane", now Reagan Lane, near the old River Road. Although he furnished the meeting place for the Baptist Church for many years, Daniel was not found on the membership roll of the church and did not give the land for the present building site, as has been stated by many sources.

Daniel Wesley Reagan did give the land for the oldest part of the White Oak Flats Cemetery (Gatlinburg Cemetery) to the community. This was originally a family plot on the farm of his father, Richard Reagan. The first burial there was a child of Daniel Milsaps, the first school teacher in Gatlinburg.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 6a, 15-16.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 51.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 45.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 37.

Daniel married Nancy Ogle 30 Jan 1830, Sevier County, Tennessee. Nancy (daughter of Thomas J. Ogle and Sophia Bosley) was born 24 Aug 1810, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 18 Feb 1844, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried White Oak Flats Cemetery, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: 2DDT-ZK

Notes:

Listed in the 1830 and 1840 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tennessee.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 6a, 16, 167.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 51.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 37.

Notes:

Andrew Jackson Bradley enlisted on 30 April 1838 at Valley River, Cherokee County, North Carolina as a private in Captain Thomas Angel's Company, 3rd Regiment of North Carolina Militia for six months duty. He participated in rounding up the Cherokee Indians and starting them on the westward journey to a new reservation in Oklahoma. This was the "Cherokee Trail of Tears." He was discharged on 6 July 1838 at Franklin, Macon County, North Carolina. His personal description at enlistment was: 5 feet 8 inches in height, grey eyes, auburn hair, and fair complexion.

Andrew Jackson Bradly was married to Mary Elvira Trentham by Reverend Richard Evans.

Prior to 26 December 1850, Andrew Jackson Bradley bought 100 acres of land from Solomon & Peter Milsaps. This land was located "on the right hand fork of the west fork of Little Pigeon River, it being part of an Entry made by David Millsaps including the land where Solomon & Peter Millsaps formerly lived..." Then on 26 December 1850, Andrew Jackson Bradley sold this tract of land to James Wesley Huskey.

There is a family story of the Civil War days. Uncle Isaac (Ike) Bradley often told the narrative as it is given below.

"Way back in times of Civil War - that was before my days - in time of the Civil War they drove them out of here. The Rebels, you know they drove the Rebels out, and they got so hard on my mind they wouldn't let them make nothing. They moved them to North Carolina. They got started across there and they aimed to go thru on the second day out but they got water-bound and they couldn't get to them. They had to stay there about five days.

"Five days. They lived on three pounds of sheep's tallow. Mutton tallow, they called it. They ate that mutton tallow and kept alive, five days until the water runned out.

"I can't dispute it because my mammy's told it, my brothers have told it and my brother's fussin' got to 'em when the river got out.

"My daddy owned, in time of Civil War, he owned Trentham property over by the forks of the river. He owned two or three hundred acres there, but they run him out. He was in the Rebel army and they runned him out. He owned all that. He got it to take care of his mammy-in-law, my grandmother, and when they runned him out he gave it to his other brother-in-laws - Uncle Robert and Uncle Isaac Trentham. He gave it to them to take care of their own, so he just turned it over to them."

After his Confederate service in Civil War, Andrew Jackson Bradley received a grant of 100 acres of Colonel William Thomas. The land was located in the area of Tow String Creek, Swain County, North Carolina (now Great Smoky Mountains National Park). The original hand-written document by Colonel William Thomas is still in existence and in possession of one of Andrew Jackson Bradley's descendants.

Andrew Jackon Bradley was listed in the 1850 through 1880 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tennessee.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 16, 21, 77.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 102, 105, 139, 150.
"Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 248.
"Smoky Mountain Historical Society Journal", Summer 1995, Vol XXI, No. 2, p 31.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 162.
"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 50.

Andrew married Mary Elvira "Polly" Trentham Oct 1847, Sevier County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of William Thomas Trentham and Easter Ogle) was born 20 Jul 1829, Tennessee; died 2 Nov 1907; was buried Ownby Addition Cemetery, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Married by Rev. Richard Evans.

Listed in the 1850 through 1880 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tennessee.

Mary Elvira Trentham Bradley, widow of Andrew Jackson, filed for a pension on Andrew Jackson Bradley's Indian Wars military service. She stated that they lived 20 years at Ocona Lufty, North Carlolina, and 25 years in Sevier County, Tennessee. A pension was granted at the rate of eight dollars per month.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 16, 21, 77.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 102, 105, 139, 150.
"Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 245, 248.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 162.
"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 50.

Other Events:

• Census: 1900, District 16, Cocke County, Tennessee

Notes:

Listed in the 1850 through 1880 and 1900 Federal Census of Sevier County,
Tennessee. Went to Arkansas and lived in the Fort Smith area for two years in
the 1850's.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 102, 178-179.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 112.
"Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 193, 278.

James married Anna Ogle Abt 1849, Sevier County, Tennessee. Anna (daughter of Harkless T. Ogle and Margaret "Peggy" Ownbey) was born 15 Jan 1835, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 15 Mar 1912; was buried Lower Fighting Creek Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1900, District 16, Cocke County, Tennessee

Notes:

Listed in the 1850 through 1880 and 1900 Federal Census of Sevier County,
Tennessee. Went to Arkansas and lived in the Fort Smith area for two years in
the 1850's.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 102.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 112.
"Smoky Mountain Family Album," Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 193, 278.

A. — Margaret. [Group Sheet]