McCarter

Notes:

Died infancy.
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Reference:
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 212.

Other Events:

• AFN: C78N-90

Notes:

Born in Cartertown neighborhood.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clan", Donald B. Reagan, 1974.
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 54.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 79.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 80.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 210, 211.

Alfred married Lydia Reagan 11 Sep 1856, , Sevier County, Tennessee. Lydia (daughter of David L. Reagan and Jane "Jennie" Ogle) was born Mar 1835, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 22 Oct 1904, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Cartertown Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: C78N-B5

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1974.
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 54.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 79.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 80.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 210.

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 67, 79.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 62, 80.

Thomas married Mary Ownby Abt 1834, Sevier County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of John Ownby and Mary Jane "Granny" Coone) was born 1814, Rutherford, North Carolina; died 1886, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Cartertown Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 67, 79.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 62, 80.

Notes:

David died at Gallatin, Tennessee on 20 June 1864, while serving with the Union Army during the Civil War.

David L. was a farmer and for a period of time in the 1830's served as clerk of the White Oak Flats Baptist Church in Gatlinburg. He became a member of the church at the March 1833 meeting "by experience."

During the Civil War, David served with the Union under Captain William J. Trotter in the 9th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry, Company H, commanded by Colonel Joseph Parsons. The company was organized at Sevierville and David L. enlisted, 1 October 1836, for three years. He was mustered in at Knoxville, 28 October 1863. His death which occurred at Gallatin, Tennessee was probably due to typhoid fever.

An affidavit filed with his wifes pension claim states that they were married about the 1st of July 1833 in Gatlinburg, Tennessee by William Trentham, Justice of Peace.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans",Donald B. Reagan, 1978, 6a, 54.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 141.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 51.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 37, 209.
"Mountain Ways", Gene Aiken, 1983, p 259.

David married Jane "Jennie" Ogle Abt 1 Jul 1833, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee. Jane (daughter of William "Black Bill" Ogle and Nancy Bohanon) was born 1818, Sevier County, Tennessee; died 3 Sep 1879; was buried Bales Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

An affidavit filed with her pension claim states that she was married about the 1st of July 1833 in Gatlinburg, Tennessee by William Trentham, Justice of Peace. Jane is on the 1837 membership roll of the White Oak Flats Baptist Church.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 6a, 54.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 141.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 51.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 37, 209, 210.

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.

Notes:

John Ownby lived with his parents in Rutherford County, North Carolina, later Buncombe County, North Carolina.

In 1833, John Ownby and his family migrated to Sevier County, Tennessee from Buncombe County, North Carolina. They made their home in the Glades community, 2nd Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee. Here John Ownby lived until his death.

John Ownby and his family were listed in the 1840 and 1850 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tennessee. Listed as John Ownsby in 1840 census.

An interesting story about John Ownby at the time of his death was told by his grandson, Samuel Ownby. It is:

"...Mother told me this story and I don't think my mother would tell me something that wasn't true. Mother said that the day before Grandfather Ownby died he walked from his house to the store, that he told the people in the store that he would die about that same time on the following day. The next day at about the time he had told them this, he layed down on the bed, talked as fast as he could, telling his family how to live, what to do, etc., then turned his face to the wall & died."
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References:
"Kinfolk, Ownbey Family Lines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina", p 1.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 66.
Wiley Emmett Koon, Jr., 15 July 1995.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 298.

John married Mary Jane "Granny" Coone 17 Feb 1812, Rutherford County, North Carolina. Mary (daughter of Nicholas Koon and Mary DeWalt) was born 1793, Rutherford County, North Carolina; died 1881, Greenbrier, Sevier County, Tennessee; was buried Plemons Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Mary Koone Ownby, known to all as "Granny Coone", lived with her children until her death.

Roger Gardner lists birth as 1796.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 66, 67.
Wiley Emmett Koon, Jr., 15 July 1995.
"Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 298.
"Benedict Kuhn (Coon, Koon, Koone) Immigrant & His Descendants", Roger L. Gardner, D.C., 1 March 1998, p 4.

Notes:

Bride: M Coon
Groom: John Ownby
Bond Date: 17 Feb 1812
County: Rutherford
Record #: 01 245
Bondsman: George Coone
Witness: Jas O Lewis
Bond #: 000135547

North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868

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:

William came with his mother and the family to Sevier County, Tennessee as early as 1805, soon after the death of his father.

From RECORD OF COMMISSIONS OF OFFICERS IN THE TENNESSEE MILITIA 1796-1811, compiled by Mrs. John Trotwood Moore, William Ogle was commissioned as a Lieutenant of the 11th Regiment of Sevier County, Tennessee on 14 Februeary 1811 by the governor of the State of Tennessee.

William Ogle was one of the first settlers in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. No land records prior to 1824 were found for William Ogle, but it is shown by Richard Reagan's early grants that William Ogle and his brother, Isaac Ogle, entered land adjoining the Richard Reagan's land on Mill Creek. This ran from Mill Creek upward to the area below the Cherokee Orchard, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. As his sons and daughters became of age, he gave them these lands. He moved to the Sugarlands area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

William Ogle is listed on the 1837 Tax List of Sevier County, Tennessee.

He and Nancy were members of the White Oak Flats Baptist Church.

William Ogle was appointed as one of nine commissioners of the Sevier County Turnpike Company in 1841. It was "for the purpose of receiving subscription to the amount of twenty five thousand dollars to be applied to the purpose of making a turnpike road from the northern termination of the Smoky Mountain Turnpike road in Sevier County, Tennessee to some point on the most practical leading routes."

William Ogle and his family appeared in the 1830 through 1850 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tennessee.

An affidavit found in the Sevier County Courthouse, by R. R. Reagan and Mark Roberts, states that William Ogle left a will but that it was destroyed in the courthouse fire of 1856. The affidavit stated that his wife, Nancy be supported and have the use of both real and personal property during her lifetime. At her death, the lands "should be equally divided between his sons, James, Henry, and William Ogle; personal property is to be equally divided between all his sons and daughters with the exception of Thomas I. Ogle, husband of his daughter, Sarah Ogle of twelve and half dollars which was to be deducted from his and her share."

In the GUARDIANS, EXECUTORS and ADMINISTRATORS Settlement Book for Sevier County, Tennessee, there is a record for the estate of William Ogle. This gives a list of the living heirs of William Ogle. Quoted from the aforesaid book, "the above statement shows that there is in the hand of the Executor, the sum of $88.06/100 dollars to be divided among eleven heirs, to wit, William, James, Henry, & Thomas Ogle, Robert Conner & wife Milly, Samuel Watson & wife Martha, David Reagan & wife Jane, the heirs of Joseph Anderson & wife Mary, John Huskey and wife Elizabeth, the heirs of Aaron Ogle, and the heirs of David Watson & wife Rachel. So that Thomas Ogle may receive eleven & 25/100 dollars less than either of the other heirs.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 140, 262-263.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 141.

William married Nancy Bohanon Abt 1810, Sevier County, Tennessee. Nancy (daughter of Henry Bohanon and Amillia Shotwell) was born 1795, Virginia; died 3 Jun 1869; was buried Cole Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Nancy was living with a son, William (Ned) Ogle in 1860. It is said that she was buried with her husband in a very old cemetery near Huskey Gap in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. This must be the Cole Cemetery.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 140, 262-263.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 139, 141.