Eliza Jane Emert

Notes:

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Reference:
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan," Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 284.

Eliza married John McCampbell 5 Sep 1869. John (son of James McCampbell and Elizaberth "Betsy" Ingram) was born 9 Jan 1830, Knox County, Tennessee; died 23 Jul 1924, Blount County, Tennessee; was buried 24 Jul 1924, Tuckaleechee Chapel Cemetery, Blount County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

1. Elijah Minnis McCampbell was born 27 Oct 1870, Blount County, Tennessee; died 20 May 1915, Blount County, Tennessee; was buried 21 May 1915, Tuckaleechee Chapel Cemetery, Blount County, Tennessee.
2. Rev. John E. McCampbell was born 1 Jun 1872, Tennessee; died 21 Mar 1962; was buried Tuckaleechee Chapel Cemetery, Blount County, Tennessee.
3. Elisabeth D. McCampbell was born Abt 1874, Tennessee.
4. Marthy F. McCampbell was born Abt 1876, Tennessee.
5. James D. McCampbell was born 13 Feb 1878, Tennessee; died 21 Oct 1961; was buried Tuckaleechee Chapel Cemetery, Blount County, Tennessee.
6. Mary J. McCampbell was born Abt 1880, Tennessee.

Notes:

Daniel H. Emert moved with his family to Blount County, Tennessee about 1826.

Daniel H. and Mary Elizabeth Emert were listed in the 1840 through 1880 Federal Census of Blount County, Tennessee.

Daniel died in Tuckaleechee Cove and was buried beside his wife.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 68.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan," Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 282, 283, 284.

Daniel married Mary Elizabeth Maples 17 Mar 1836. Mary (daughter of Thomas Maples and Lydia Pauline Atchley) was born 26 Jul 1816, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 30 Sep 1883, Blount County, Tennessee; was buried Tuckaleechee Campground Cemetery, Blount County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Mary Elizabeth died in Tuckaleechee Cove.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 68.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan," Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 282, 283.

Other Events:

• AFN: MC7N-L0

Notes:

Frederick Emmert Jr. was born in what is now Tennessee. He was drafted on 10 January 1814 as a private in Captain Isaac Williams' Company, part of Colonel Samuel Bunch's Regiment during the War of 1812 and was discharged on 14 May 1814.

Frederick Jr. and his wife Celia Drusilla lived in the Emert Cove, Sevier County, Tennessee area before moving to Tuckaleechee Cove, Blount County, Tennessee about 1826. Frederick Jr. was a Methodist minister there. They were listed in the 1830 Federal Census of Blount County, Tennessee. There were ten children inthe household: one male age 5 and under; one male and three females age 5-10; two males and one female age 10-15; and two males age 15-20.

They were also listed in the 1840 Federal Census of Blount County, Tennessee. There were now eight children at home: one male and one female age 10-15; one male and three females age 15-20; and two males age 20-30.

In 1850 they were still listed in the Federal Census of Blount County, Tennessee. All the children had married and left home except one son, Frederick S., age 24. They also were listed in the 1860 Federal Census of Blount County, Tennessee. There were no children in the household at this time.

Frederick Emmert Jr. was listed alone in the 1870 Federal Census of Blount County, Tennessee. He was buried beside his wife in the Campground Cemetery.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 2a, 68.
Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 42.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan," Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 282.

Frederick married Celia Drusilla Reagan 5 Nov 1812, , Sevier County, Tennessee. Celia (daughter of Timothy Reagan and Elizabeth Trigg) was born 15 Feb 1792, Caswell County, North Carolina; died 29 Aug 1869, Blount County, Tennessee; was buried Tuckaleechee Campground Cemetery, Blount County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: MC7N-3D

Notes:

Buried in Campground Cemetery.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 2a, 68.
Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 42.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan," Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 282.

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 215.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 284.
Cliff Manis

Thomas married Lydia Pauline Atchley 6 Dec 1809, Sevier County, Tennessee. Lydia (daughter of Thomas Atchley, I and Lydia Richards) was born 22 Apr 1792, Tennessee; died 11 Feb 1865; was buried Bethel Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 215.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 284.
Cliff Manis

Other Events:

• AFN: MC7N-RT

Notes:

Pennsylvania private Continental Line; Revolutionary War.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 65, 67, 68.
"The Book of Regan/Reagan," Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 414-416.
Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 42.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, 196, 332.

Frederick married Barbara Ann Neidig 1772, Pennsylvania. Barbara (daughter of Daniel Neidig and Anna Margaretha) was born 6 May 1755, Pennsylvania; died 7 Jul 1842, Tennessee; was buried Emerts Cove Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: MC7N-9F

Notes:

Name also known as Anna Barbara Neidig.

Listed with son Daniel in 1840 Sevier County, Tennessee census.

Buried in family graveyard which later became Emert Cove Cemetery.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 65, 67, 68.
"The Book of Regan/Reagan," Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 414-416.
Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 42.
http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/sevier/census/1840census.txt

Notes:

Timothy Ragan, grandson of Timothy Ragan - Colonial Ancestor was probably born in the Elk Ridge community. His parents have not been identified, but research on this continues.

In his youth, he was probably taught to read and write by his mother, and was taught the art of farming and blacksmithing by his father. So this was one of his lifetime occupations. He was also a carpenter and as most men did in those days, he could do almost any chore needed in daily life.

An early church census verifies their birth years. The census was taken in St. John and Prince George Parishes, Prince George County, Maryland on 31 31 August 1776 and listed; Timothy Ragan, age 26, and Elizabeth Ragan, age 16. No children were listed.

Traditions say that Timothy had four brothers who all served in the Revolutionary War and afterward moved to Tennessee. Other Reagans found in that early period include: Jeremiah in Washington County, Daniel in Greene County, Charles in Blount County, and James in Sevier County and a James in Knox County. These men were all of an age to have been Timothy's brothers but no definite connection to any of them has been made.

Timothy Reagan served in the Revolution with the Continental Troops of Maryland. He was seriously wounded at the Battle of Brandywine and again later in the war. Muster roll records found in the National Archives, Washington, D.C. Show that he served as private with Captain John Eccleston, in the 2nd Regiment of Maryland Troops, commanded by Colonel Thomas Price. The records also show that he was left at a hospital in Chester, Pennsylvania, on 12 September 1777, the day after the Battle of Brandywine. He was reported as still being in the hospital six months later. No records of a pension or bounty land grants were found.

Timothy's name is found on the 1783 tax lists of Pittsylvania County, Virginia with five people in his family at that time. He does not appear on the tax lists for 1785.

His name is found in Caswell County, North Carolina, in the January and April counts of 1786. There were then seven persons in his family: a male age 21-60, 3 males under 21 or over 60, and 3 females.

Two grants of land, located in Caswell County, North Carolina, were recorded for Timothy Reagan. The first was issued in 1791 to Timothy Regan for 200 acres "on the waters of Fish Pond." Disposal of this land was recorded in
Caswell County, North Carolina Deed Book 'H', pages 110/11. The deed says "THIS INDENTURE made the thirteenth day of October and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety two Between Timothy Regan of the County of Caswell, North Carolina of the one part and Solomon Clark of the said County and State of the other part..." The second grant, dated 3 December 1795, was issued to Timothy Ragan and John Grant for 157 acres of land "on waters of Wolf Island." Records of disposal of this land have not been located yet but it is believed that Timothy moved to East Tennessee very soon after this date of 1795.

No mention of his name has been found in early records of the counties of Washington, Sullivan, Hawkins, Greene, or Jefferson. He is said to have joined a group of pioneers who pushed farther into the Indians' lands and built the settlement around the Shield's Fort, later Lawson's Fort, in Sevier County Tennessee. The late Joe A. Sharp, County Historian, believed this fort was located on Middle Creek. The date was probably a little later than the
settlement of Sevierville.

The State of Tennessee began issuing land grants in 1806 and the earliest found for Timothy Reagan was surveyed in 1807. According to the State Archivist, both land grants still in existence for Timothy were for purchased land, not bounty land. The first grant was surveyed 26 February 1807 and was granted 22 May 1810:

"... a certain tract or parcel of land containing fifty acres and one hundred and sixteen poles lying in the County of Sevier in the District South of French Broad and Holston on the waters of Middle Creek there being due and chargeable on said land the sum of fifty dollars and seventy-three cents with interest thereon..."

This tract joined the lands of Jennett (Shields) Tipton, widow of Joshua Tipton and the land of John Marshall. The second grant was entered 13 May 1824 and granted on 6 August 1824. This land joined a corner of Nancy Robinson's land:

"... or parcel of land containing twenty-five acres, lying in the County aforesaid. Beginning at a white oak on a line of said Reagan's old survey..."

Since this tract joined the old survey it is believed that this is where Timothy lived until his death, or until he went to live with his son, Richard, who had settled in White Oak Flats now Gatlinburg.

His great grandson, John H. Reagan, described Timothy as a tall, fine looking man, strong and having great vitality even in his older years. He was loved and respected by people and was fun-loving and witty. Being an Irishman, he enjoyed a practical joke now and then. A story handed down through the years tells that although he had built the stocks for the jail in Sevierville, he pretended that he did not know how they operated and persuaded the sheriff to sit in them to demonstrate for him. When the sheriff did he promptly locked them and enjoyed the fun at the sheriff's expense. (Wonder what happened when the sheriff did get out!)

We don't know the exact date of Timothy or Elizabeth's death. That he was living in 1824 is indicated by the entry of the land record above. Neither of them appear on the 1830 census of Sevier County so it is assumed their deaths
occurred before that date.

Family traditions say that Timothy Reagan was buried in an unmarked grave at White Oak Flats Cemetery, Gatlinburg, Tennessee near where the first person buried, in the lower left hand corner of the old part of the cemetery, looking up the Graveyard hill from the gate.

Timothy and Elizabeth Reagan had a large family, some say ten sons and one daughter. The North Carolina census indicates there were three females in the family in 1786 so there may have been more daughters in the family. Most of these children moved from Sevier County farther to the West and South. The oldest son, Richard, remained and was one of the first settlers of White Oak Flats, now Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 1-3.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 396.

Timothy married Elizabeth Trigg Abt 1775, Prince George County, Maryland. Elizabeth (daughter of Clemant Trigg and Mary Ann Fouracres) was born 1760, Prince George County, Maryland; died Abt 1825/1830, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 1-3.
"The book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 396.

Notes:

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Reference:
Charles Maples

Josiah — Ruthea Sweeney. Ruthea (daughter of Moses Sweeney and Ann Seymour) was born 1749; died 1830. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
Charles Maples

Notes:

Served as Private in Major John Dunn's Regiment Middlesex County, Virginia during Revolutionary War.

One of the founders of the Alder Branch Baptist Church organized in his dwelling house in 1830.
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Reference:
"The Townsend Heritage", Kathy Townsend, 1984, p 51.

Thomas married Lydia Richards 1780, , London, Virginia. Lydia was born 18 Aug 1762, Virginia; died 31 Aug 1850; was buried Alder Branch Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"The Townsend Heritage", Kathy Townsend, 1984, p 51.