Samuel Michael McCarter

Notes:

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Reference:
"Clabo Family Tree", Gardner Clabo, p 278.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 78.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 208.

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 53.
"Clabo Family Tree", Gardner Clabo, p 229.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 69, 78.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 202, 207, 208.

Aaron married Marriah Clabo 21 Oct 1865, Sevier County, Tennessee. Marriah (daughter of Martin Nathaniel Clabough and Margaret "Peggy" Ogle) was born 1849, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 29 Mar 1887; was buried White Oak Flats Cemetery, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Listed as Matilda with parents in 1850 census.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 53.
"Clabo Family Tree", Gardner Clabo, p 229, 278.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 69, 78.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 207, 208.

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 53.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 51, 62, 69.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 201."The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 37, 201.

Joseph married Nancy Reagan Abt 1828, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee. Nancy (daughter of Richard Reagan and Julia Ann Shults) was born Abt 1810, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee; died Abt 1854, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried White Oak Flats Cemetery, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Nancy and Joseph McCarter are listed in the 1830, 1840 and 1850 census records of Sevier County.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 6a, 53.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 51, 62, 69.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 37, 201.

Notes:

Martin and Margaret's family appears in the Sevier County Federal Census, 1850 to 1880. Martin was in the 9th Calvary Co. E, of the Union Army during the Civil War.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 254.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 140, 231.
"Clabo Family Tree", Gardner Clabo, p 229.
Dee Lansford GEDCOM, 24 September 1995.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 174.
"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 60.

Martin married Margaret "Peggy" Ogle Abt 1846, , Sevier County, Tennessee. Margaret (daughter of Isaac "Shucky" Ogle and Susannah Bohanon) was born 1827, Tennessee; died 28 Mar 1897; was buried Banner Cemetery, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

There is a deed in Sevier County Courthouse from Isaac Ogle to Margaret Clabo "for love and affection for my daughter, Margaret Clabo." Margaret and Martin's family appears in the Sevier County Federal
Census, 1850 to 1880.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1974, p 96.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 140, 231.
"Clabo Family Tree", Gardner Clabo, p 229.
Dee Lansford GEDCOM, 24 September 1995.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 174.
"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 60.

Notes:

No personal data was found about James McCarter except he died shortly after the birth of Jeremiah M. McCarter in 1815. Rebecca and James McCarter came from Edgefield District, South Carolina to settle the Cartertown section and owned it at one time. They did not take part in the settlement of White Oak Flats.

Burial at Cartertown Cemetery not confirmed.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1974, p 46.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 62.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 229.

James married Rebecca Ogle Abt 1800, Edgefield County, South Carolina. Rebecca (daughter of William "Billy" Ogle and Martha Jane Huskey) was born 1782, North Carolina; died Abt 1870/1880; was buried P. A. Proffitt Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

According to the 1850 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tenn., Rebecca listed North Carolina as her birthplace.

Rebecca was already married to James McCarter by 1803 as indicated by the will of her father, William Ogle. Rebecca was willed "a cow and calf, bed and furniture, pot and some other furniture. Also I give unto my beloved grandson William McCarter a young sow."

Rebecca and James McCarter came from Edgefield District, South Carolina to settle the Cartertown section and owned most of it at one time. They did not take part in the settlement of White Oak Flats.

Rebecca and her second husband Middleton are listed in Sevier County Census 1830 to 1860.

Rebeccaa and Midleton were charter members of White Oak Flats Baptist Church.
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Reference
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 153.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 45.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 62.
Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 62.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 229.

Other Events:

• AFN: BQLJ-VD

Notes:

The eldest son of Timothy and Elizabeth Reagan, Richard was born in Maryland or Virginia. He moved with his parents to Virginia, North Carolina, and then to Sevier County, Tennessee. Here he married circa 1796, Julia Ann Shults. Richard Reagan was one of the early settlers in the Emert's Cove, moving either with or very soon after Frederick Emert settled there circa 1800. They moved from there to White Oak Flats (now Gatlinburg) circa 1806.

It has been often stated that Richard's son, Daniel Wesley Reagan, was the first white child born in White Oak Flats but this seems to be an error. A granddaughter said that Daniel Wesley was about four years old when the family moved to the Mill Creek site in White Oak Flats. The land records indicate this to be correct. Daniel Wesley was born in 1802 in Emert's Cove area and this makes the date of the family settling in White Oaks about 1806.

Most of Richard's adult life was spent in Sevier County, Tennessee and since the early records of the county have been lost only a few official records for him have been found. There are four land grant records in the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee. The first of these four land grants, dated 1808 reads:

"...being in the county of Sevier and District South of French Broad and Holston on the East fork of Little Pigeon.... corner to Frederick Emmett....running with meanders of said river.... Then with the land of John Roberts on said river bank."

Richard paid 12 1/2 cents per acre for this land and although by the date of this grant it is known he had moved to the Mill Creek site in White Oaks, he retained this land and made the final payment in 1819.

The second grant in 1813 is for ten acres, part of an entry that had been assigned to Robert Wear. This was "in the county of Sevier in the White Oak Flats." This land ran up the river, crossed the same, and joined other lands of Richard Reagan, which indicates earlier land entries that have been lost.

The third land grant in 1813 was for fifty acres "...in the county aforesaid in the White Oak Flats on Stoney Creek..." From courses and directions in this grant, Stoney Creek must have been the name used for Mill Creek in the earlier days. It is now called LeConte Creek. The first is a very appropriate name.

The fourth land grant in 1828 reads: "...containing twenty-five acres, lying in the County aforesaid, on Mill Creek in the White Oak Flats." This land joined the land of Isaac Ogle, and Daniel W. Reagan as well as Richard's own lands.

In 1837 Daniel Wesley Reagan, Richard's son, had a grant surveyed for the purpose of joining the lands surveyed in Richard Reagan's name. It is apparent from this record that several of Richard's early records are missing. This grant for 100 acres included a narrow strip of land on both sides of the river from Mill Creek to Baskins Creek. (The grant is in a very legible handwriting and it is spelled BASKINS) At a line running along the upper side of the cemetery from Baskins Creek to "the lane" (Reagan Drive now) his land joined Thomas J. Ogle. From the lane to a point near Mill Creek, he joined lands of William and Isaac Ogle. Their land included what was once called the Airport Field.

Here on this farm in the heart of Gatlinburg, Richard's grandson, John H. Reagan, of Texas fame, was born in 1818. In the letter to his children written in 1865 while he was imprisoned after the Civil War, he said that his grandfather, Richard Reagan was of "....medium stature and good appearance, a very religious man, and member of the Methodist Episcopal church from his youth until his death...." He also said that Richard "owned the neighborhood mill and blacksmith shop; was justice of the peace for his precinct...." Richard was the class leader of the Methodist Society which met in his home before there was a meeting house built. He also kept the post office for the community. His grandson might have been writing his epithet when he said of Richard, "He was an upright good man....a contented and happy man, whose faith was in God and whose hope was in Heaven.."

Family records say that Richard died of a fractured skull in 1829. A family story handed down through the generations tells that "Richard Reagan died when as he was taking his horses from pasture to the barn, a limb flew off a beech tree and struck him in the head." Another family story tells the same thing at the same time - "A few days before the accident, a bird flew into the porch where he was sitting, smoking his pipe, and lit on his head. He sprang from his chair, declaring it was his 'death sign' and was greatly disturbed. Whether or not it was a warning, he thought it was. The accident happened and he died a few days after that."

Most sources say that Richard and Julia Ann Reagan had three sons and four daughters - it is possible there were others. One is thought to have been a son, Aaron Reagan, and a daughter named Barbara who died as a young girl. The other two daughters are unknown.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 2a, 5-6.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 6, 51.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 31-44.

Richard married Julia Ann Shults 1796, Sevier County, Tennessee. Julia (daughter of Johan Martin "Martin" Shults and Juliana Stentz) was born 1775, Tryon County, North Carolina; died 23 Apr 1845, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried White Oak Flats Cemetery, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: BQLJ-WK

Notes:

Julia Ann Shultz came with her mother, Juliana Shultz, and her brothers and sisters to Sevier County, Tennessee circa 1794/1795 from Sullivan County, Tennessee.

It is said that Julia Ann used a German Bible and hymn book and spoke German as easily as she did English.

Julia Ann was living with her son, Daniel Wesley, at the time of her death. It was thought that she had recovered from a spring cold but when she didn't arise as usual on the morning of April 23, 1845, the family found that she had passed away in her sleep.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 2a, 6.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 6, 51.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 407.

Notes:

From the Records of Commissions of Officers in Tennessee Militia 1796-1815, compiled by Mrs. John Trotwood Moore, we find that William Clabough was appointed as an Ensign, Light Infantry Company of the 11th Regiment for Sevier County, Tennessee on July 8, 1808. Later, in his early thirties, as he claimed in 1852 he served in the Creek Indian War in Alexander Hill's Company, Colonel William Carrol's Regiment, Tennessee Drafted Militia. He was drafted in McMinnville, Tennessee, in October 1813 for six months duty. He was discharged at Nashville, Tennessee in June 1814. He applied for a Bounty Land Warrant on two different dates: March 30, 1852, and September 6, 1855 with the United States Government on his war of 1812 military services. It was rejected because of insufficient information.

William and Lavina are listed in 1830 through 1850 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tennessee as Cleaubeaugh 68 and 54. William died at his homeplace.
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Reference:
"Clabo Family Tree", Gardner Clabo, p 35-36.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 246.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 230, 231.
Dee Lansford GEDCOM, 24 September 1995.

William married Lavina King 1815, Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee. Lavina (daughter of Nathaniel King and Elizabeth Runyan) was born 1798, South Carolina; died 1870/1880, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Middle Creek Methodist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Lavina lived with her son and daughter-in-law, William and Elizabeth Handley Clabough Jr. as listed in the 1860 through 1870 Federal Census.
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Reference:
"Clabo Family Tree", Gardner Clabo, p 35-36.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 246.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 230, 231.
"In the Shadow of the Smokies", Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, 10s.
Dee Lansford GEDCOM, 24 September 1995.

Notes:

Shucky moved with the family to Sevier County, Tennessee as early as 1805, soon after the death of his father.

Isaac was one of the first settlers in Gatlinburg. No land records prior to 1824 were found for Isaac Ogle but it is shown by Richard Reagan's early grants that Isaac and William, his brother, entered land adjoining Richard's land on Mill Creek. This ran from Mill Creek down to "the lane" (Reagan Lane) and nearly to the old river road. Later records show this land as belonging to Isaac alone and still later to his son, Elijah Ogle. Isaac also entered land near the road from the Glades, running down to the mouth of Roaring Fork Creek in Gatlinburg. As his sons and daughters became of age, he gave them these lands and he moved to the Banner area north of Gatlinburg.

Isaac and his wife, Susannah, were charter members of the White Oak Flats Baptist Church. The family appears in the Sevier County, Tennessee Federal Census records, 1830 to 1880. Isaac died 2 Sep 1881 according to the Death Register of 1881 found in Sevier County Courthouse.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 225.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 138.

Isaac married Susannah Bohanon Abt 1809, Sevier County, Tennessee. Susannah (daughter of Henry Bohanon and Amillia Shotwell) was born 1793, Virginia; died Bef 1880, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Banner Cemetery, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1974, p 82.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 138.