Sarah Eleanor Halts

Notes:

Surname may be Halls. Birth and death place not confirmed.
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Reference:
"Joshua Reagan", Lula F. Shelton, 1982, p 1.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 397

Sarah married John Fouracres 13 Jul 1735, , Queen Anne, Maryland. John was born Abt 1714, , Delaware; died Abt 1756, St. Lukes Parish, Queen Anne, Maryland. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 397

Elizabeth married John Newman 16 Sep 1756. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Family tradition handed down for generations tells the story of Mary Ann Foreacres' near escape with a panther when she was a 12 year old girl. The story reads as follows:

"When Mary Foreacres was about twelve years old, the lady with whom she lived sent her to the nearest neighbor's, a distance of about three miles. The road led through heavy timber and across a creek. As Mary was returning home, she heard the cry of a panther in the direction from which she was coming and seemingly on the road she had just passed over. Recognizing the sharp, shrill scream to be that of the beast she so much feared, she ran as fast as she could. The oft repeated cry, louder, showed that the panther was gaining on her. Seeing that it would be impossible for her to reach home before being overtaken by the animal, when she came to the creek she waded into the water and down the stream some distance to a tree which was near or in the edge of the water. She climbed the tree and sat in the thickest part of the boughs.

Soon she saw the panther come down the road to the creek and cross over. Failing to find her trail on the other side of the creek, he searched in all directions, at the time uttering those fearful, piercing cries. Mary was so situated that she could see his every move. The wind was blowing down the stream and he failed to get the scent. Finally he gave up the search and wandered slowly up the valley, and when his cries were heard of safe distance, Mary climbed down the tree and went home."

Mary Ann Foreacres Trigg-Hatsfield was listed as head of the household in the 1786 State Census of Caswell County, North Carolina. There were three sons and one daughter still at home. What had happened to Thomas Hatsfield is not known.

January 1796 in Caswell District of Caswell County, North Carolina, William Trigg acted as the administrator of his mother's estate.

The location of Mary Ann Foreacres' birth and marriage is not confirmed.
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Reference:
"Joshua Reagan", Lula F. Shelton, 1982, p 1.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 395, 396, 397, 398.

Mary married Clemant Trigg Abt 1757, , Queen Anne, Maryland. Clemant (son of Clement Trigg and Sarah Bullett) was born Abt 1735, , Prince George, Maryland; died Abt 1779, , Caswell, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Mary married Thomas Hatsfield 10 Mar 1782, , Pittsylvania, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Cristened at St. Lukes Parish.
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Reference:
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 397
IGI

John married Jane Burk 27 Jan 1757, , Queen Anne, Maryland. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 397

Notes:

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Reference:
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 397

Notes:

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Reference:
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 397

Notes:

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Reference:
"The book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 396.

Margaret married John Baldwin Abt 1775/1776. [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.

Elizabeth married Timothy Reagan Abt 1775, Prince George County, Maryland. Timothy (son of Timothy Ragan and Rachael Nelson) was born 1750, Anne Arundel County, Maryland; died Abt 1825/1830; was buried White Oak Flats Cemetery, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"The book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 396.

Jemima — Wesley Cook. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"The book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 396.

William — Nancy Lay. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"The book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 396.

Drucilla — Edward Baldwin. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"The book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 396.

Joshua — Priscilla Hardister. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"The book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 396.

Notes:

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Reference:
"The book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 396.

Simeon — Sarah. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"The book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 396.

Sarah — Edward Baldwin. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

May be incorrect.
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Reference:
"Joshua Reagan", Lula F. Shelton, 1982, p 1.

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]

Notes:

Family traditions say that Robert Nelson Ragan migrated from Sevier County,
Tennessee to "the fever and ague country, north of the Ohio River" before 1810.
John H. Reagan, of Civil War fame, said, "...I seperated from my family before
I was grown and went to Texas, consequently know but little of other branches
of the faimly; but I remember when I was a boy hearing our family speak of two
of the sons of great grandfather moving to what was then called the fever and
ague country, north of the Ohio River. I am now 69 years old, and they went
there before I was old enough to remember them, possibly before I was born..."
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 2a.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 241.

Robert — Louisa Emert. Louisa (daughter of Frederick Emert and Barbara Ann Neidig) was born 11 Feb 1789/1790, , Greene, North Carolina; died Bef 1843. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Rachel Reatan came with her parents as a young girl to Sevier County, Tennessee
in late 1795.

Rachel is believed to be buried in the Smith-Mahan Cemetery on Mahan's Creek.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 2a."The Book of Ragan/Reagan," Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 242.

Rachel married Edward "Ned" Mahan Abt 1798, , Sevier County, Tennessee. Edward (son of John Mahan and Mary Scott) was born Abt 1772, Frederick County, Virginia; died Aug 1855, Bibb County, Alabama; was buried Mahan-Smith Cemetery, Bibb County, Alabama. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 2a.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan," Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 412.

Reason — Rachel Thomas. Rachel (daughter of Evan Thomas and Elizabeth Hubbard) was born Abt 1786, , Pendleton, South Carolina; died 10 Jul 1814, , Madison, Illinois; was buried , Madison, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: MC7T-RJ

Notes:

Believied to be a daughter of Timothy and Elizabeth Reagan, Elizabeth was
probably born in Caswell County, North Carolina, moving with her parents to
Sevier County, Tennessee in late 1790's. Elizabeth was a sister to Sarah and
Dursilla Reagan as indicated by Emert family records and traditions. Also in
Donald B. Reagan's possession, a Reagan family record lists Elizabeth as a
sister of Richard Reagan.

It is believed that Elizabeth and Phillip lived in the Middle Creek area.
Elizabeth Reagan is listed in the 1830 Federal Census of Sevier County,
Tennessee. The latest land entry for Elizabeth was enter in 1835. Also she is
still living in 1837 according to 1837 Sevier County, Tennessee Tax List.

Elizabeth Reagan died in the Middle Creek area of Sevier County.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 2a, 66.
Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 42.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan," Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 253-255.

Elizabeth married Phillip Emert 6 Jun 1809, Sevier County, Tennessee. Phillip (son of Frederick Emert and Barbara Ann Neidig) was born 17 Oct 1786, Virginia; died 23 Jul 1821; was buried Middle Creek Methodist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• AFN: MC8K-0K

Notes:

Sarah Ragan came with her parents to Sevier County, Tennessee in late 1795. She spent her early life before marriage near Shield's Fort on the Middle Creek farm of her father.

Sarah later lived with her husband Daniel Emmert in Emert's Cove which was opened up and first settled by Frederick Emmert, his father. They are listed in the 1830 through 1850 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tennessee.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 2a, 65.
Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 42.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan," Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 270-272.

Sarah married Daniel George Emert 1816, Sevier County, Tennessee. Daniel (son of Frederick Emert and Barbara Ann Neidig) was born 13 Jun 1793, Greene County, North Carolina; died 28 Aug 1851; was buried Emerts Cove Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Nancy Jane Reagan's parents brought her to Sevier County, Tennessee as a child
in late 1795 where she grew up.

Family tradition says she "lived with her sister, Rhoda in Alabama and later in
Illinois. She died in 1844 at age of fifty-five years." It was also said she
did not marry.

The 1840 Federal Census of Macoupin County, Illinois verified the family
tradition about her. Apparently she was the female between 50 and 60 years old
in the household of James and Rhoda Ragan Huskey.

She died in Birds Township and was buried beside James and Rhoda Reagan Huskey
in the Huskey Family Cemetery (now Joiner Cemetery) in Birds Township. The
name on the tombstone is "Jane Ragan".
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 2a.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan," Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 281.

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.

Celia married Frederick E. Emert, Jr. 5 Nov 1812, , Sevier County, Tennessee. Frederick (son of Frederick Emert and Barbara Ann Neidig) was born 12 Jan 1790, Greene County, North Carolina; died 10 Apr 1871, Townsend, Blount County, Tennessee; was buried Tuckaleechee Campground Cemetery, Blount County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Catherine "Caty" Reagan came with her parents as a baby to Sevier County,
Tennessee in late 1795. She was living with her parents in Sevier County when
her brother Reason Ragan returned from Illinois Territory about 1809. He had
run away from home earlier and had married in Kentucky. He and his wife moved
on to settle in Illinois Territory and he wanted Catherine "Caty" to return
there with him, which she did.

Catherine "Caty" lived with her brother Reason and sister-in-law Rachel in the
Wood River community of Madison County, Illinois Territory. She was there when
her brother's family was massacred by Indians on Sunday, 10 July 1814. She was
not feeling well and had remained with Rachel's sister instead of going with
Rachel and the children.

Then her brother lost his life while pursuing the Indians after the massacre
occurred. The records show Catherine "Caty" gave bond for administering the
estate of her brother Reason Ragan. The County Court of Madison County,
Illinois Territory appointed her as one of several administrators for her
brother's estate.

Catherine "Caty" died in Walkerville Township and was buried in the Hunnicut
Cemetery.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 2a.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 291.

Catherine married Davis Carter 26 May 1815, , Madison, Illinois. Davis (son of Michael Carter) was born Abt 1784, , North Carolina; died 20 Nov 1847; was buried , Greene, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 2a.
Beverly G. Martin family group sheets, 1994.

Rhoda married James M. Huskey 1813, Sevier County, Tennessee. James (son of Isaac Huskey and Jane Miller) was born 14 Feb 1795, Edgefield County, South Carolina; died 15 Sep 1845, Bird Township, MaCoupin County, Illinois; was buried Bird Township, MaCoupin County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Jeremiah Ragan was born in the Middle Creek community where he grew up during the turbulent last days of the Indian troubles on the frontier and the early development days of Sevier County.

Jeremiah and his wife Mary were listed in the 1830 and 1840 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tennessee.

There are five land entries recorded for Jeremiah. The first entry [#46] dated 1 May 1824 was for 25 acres on the waters of the West Fork of Little Pigeon River. The second entry [#207] dated 21 August 1824 was for 50 acres in the White Oak Flats and the third entry [#1093] dated 7 December 1835 was for 125 acres on the West Fork of Little Pigeon River in the Sugar Lands. The fourth entry [#1238] dated 6 February 1837 was for 180 acres on the water of the West Fork of Little Pigeon River and the fifth entry [#1412] dated 4 November 1838 was for 133 acres on the right-hand prong of the West Fork of Little Pigeon River. All of these land entries were located in Sevier County, Tennessee. He received grants for all from the State of Tennessee. There is a deed for part of the dispsal of it.

Jeremiah Reagan joined the White Oak Flats Baptist Church an arm of "Forks of Little Pigeon" Baptist Church in Sevierville, at October 1833 meeting "by experience." This church was the origin of Gatlinburg's First Baptist Church.

He served as the church clerk for the White Oak Flats Baptist Church from November 1833 to April 1840. As the church clerk, he recopied all the first loose minute records into the first church minutes book ... in his own handwriting at the discretion of the church elders. He had beautiful handwriting, good spelling, grammar, etc., which indicates he had good teachers in those early days.

Also from the church minutes we learn that the church voted to exclude Jeremiah "for suing David L. Reagan without first bringing him to church and disobey call of church" on 26 Sep 1840. But the church restored him to full fellowship in December 1844 and granted "Jeremiah Reagan and his wife Mary" a letter of dismissal.

There is one deed recorded at the Register of Deeds office at Sevier County Courthouse for Jeremiah Reagan that gives clues to his leaving the Gatlinburg area. A partial excerpt from Deed Book 'K', page 324 shows ... "This Indenture made this twenty sixth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty four between JEREMIAH REAGAN of the County of Cherokee and State of North Carolina of the one part and Stephen Huskey of the County of Sevier and State of Tennessee of the other part..."

This seems to have been the time of their move from Tennessee to North Carolina. He and his wife Mary lived in Cherokee County, North Carolina for a brief time.

Then they moved to Gordon County, Georgia prior to 1850. He and Mary were listed in the 1850 and 1860 Federal Census of Gordon County, Georgia. There were no children in the household for both years. They were living alone in the Fairmont District of the said county.

Sometime during the 1860's, Jeremiah and Mary moved to Bartow County, Georgia. They were listed in the 1870 Federal Census of Bartow County with, still, no children in the household.

In 1880 Jeremiah and his second wife Eliza were listed in the Federal Census of Bartow County, Georgia. Jeremiah was 81 years old and was born in the State of Tennessee. His parents were listed as born in Maryland.

The family tradition states that "he was buried in the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church Cemetery."
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 2a, 71, 75.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan", Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 310-311.

Jeremiah married Mary Huskey Abt 1820, Sevier County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of Isaac Huskey and Jane Miller) was born 1799, South Carolina; died Abt 1870/1880; was buried Bartow County, Georgia. [Group Sheet]

Jeremiah married Eliza Powell 25 Nov 1871, Bartow County, Georgia. Eliza was born Abt 1823, , South Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Timothy Ragan Jr. was born in the Middle Creek community where he grew to manhood.

Timothy Ragan Jr. sigend his name as a witness to the will of Phillip Emmert, his wife's uncle, on 20 March 1821. The "Junior" was added as a part of his signature.

Timothy and Barbara Shultz Ragan Jr. were living in the area of Timothy Creek, part of Emert Cove, now a part of Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Probably this creek was named for this Timothy. He and his wife Barbara were listed in the 1830 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tennessee. There they had one son under five years of age; and three daughters age 5-10 years in the household.

Two more sons were born in here Tennessee to Timothy and Barabara. Then they and their growing family migrated to Madison County, Missouri by wagon train in June of 1834. They settled in the area near Marquand, Missouri. Shortly after their arrival, his wife Barbara Shultz Ragan was stricken with an unknown illness and died.

Timothy and his second wife Martha M. Moore were listed in the 1840 Federal Census of Madison County, Missouri. There were two males and one female under five years of age; two males age 5-10 years; one male and one female age 10-15 years; and two females age 15-20 years in the household then.

On 30 August 1841, Timothy Ragan Jr. purchased 54 acres of land from John Cobb and his wife Louisa for $70.00 in Madison County, Missouri. It was "the undivided half of the west half of Lot No. 2 North East quarter of Section No. 6 in Township No. 32 North of Range No. 8 East."

Timothy and Martha were listed in the 1850 Federal Census of Madison County, Missouri with seven children at home. They were: Benjamin B., age 16; William P., age 14, George L., age 13; Sarah C., age 11; James G., age 9; Henry P., age 7; and Margaret T., age 4. Three daughters, Nancy, Elizabeth, and Mary, and one son, Richard Rainwater had married and left to start their own families.

Daniel Emmet Ragan was not living at home at that time and was not located in the census records.

In the 1860 Federal Census, Timothy and Martha were listed in Bollinger County, Missouri. There were five children at home. They were: Sarah, age 21; James, age 18; Henry, age 16; Margaret, age 14; and Jane, age 9. In the 1870 Federal Census of Bollinger County, Missouri, they were again listed with three children still at home. They were: W. B., age 34; James, age 29; and Martha,
age 19.

After his second wife's death Timothy was living with his son and daughter-in-law, James Gasney and Elmitta E. Matthews Reagan. Again he was listed in the same household in the 1880 Federal Census of Bollinger County, Missouri. He was 80 years old at that time.

It is believed by descendants of this family that Timothy and Martha M. Moore Ragan Jr. were buried in the family cemetery on the farm.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 2a, 70.
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 16, 22, 27.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan," Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 327-328.

Timothy married Barbara Shults 30 Sep 1819, , Sevier County, Tennessee. Barbara (daughter of Martin S. E. Shults, Jr. and Barbara Ann Emert) was born 20 Mar 1803, , Sevier County, Tennessee; died 21 Sep 1834, , Madison, Missouri. [Group Sheet]

Timothy married Martha Moore 1 Mar 1835, , Madison, Missouri. Martha (daughter of Charles Moore) was born 16 Mar 1807, , Tennessee; died 21 May 1875, , Bollinger, Missouri; was buried Ironton, Iron, Missouri. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Joshua Ragan was born in the Middle Creek community where he lived until his marriage.

Joshua entered 50 acres of land on 10 January 1826 at Entry Taker's office for Sevier County, Tennessee. The record reads as follows:

[Sevier County, Tennessee ]
[Surveyor's Book No. 1, page 182]

"State of Tennessee
"Sevier County

"By virtue of Entry No. 370 made in the Entry Takers office for said County on the 10' day of January 1826 I have Surveyed for Joshua Ragan fifty acres of land on Little Pigeon river

"Beginning at a Spruce Pine at the foot of the mountain South one West two poles to a stake, South Eighty Seven and a half East ten poles to a chestnut on a Branch, North Sixty Eight East thirty two poles to a hickory, then down the Branch North four East nine poles to a stake, North Sixty East Eighteen poles to a stake, North twenty West ninety six poles to a Spruce Pine on the Bank of the river, then down the river North thirty three West one hundred and fifty poles crossing the river to a stake, South thirty three West Seventy poles crossing the river to a stake, then with a mountain South fifty four East one hundred thirty poles to a stake, South fifty west forty six poles to the Beginning.

"Surveyed 13' February 1826

"Stephen Huskey)
" & ) S.C.C "Guilford Cannon
"Silas Huskey ) "D. S."

The land was granted on 15 August, 1826 by the State of Tennessee.

Joshua Ragan and his wife Jane Huskey Ragan were listed in the 1830 Sevier County, Tennessee Federal Census. There were three children in the family: two males and one female age five years and under. They were living in the Gatlinburg area at that time.

In 1831, Joshua Reagan and his family migrated to Madison County, Missouri and made their home there until the "Fall of 1835". At that time the family moved to Macoupin County, Illinois. He worked for two months as a wood chopper and rail splitter in St. Clair County, Illinois in early 1836.

In June of 1836 he and Jane moved with their children to Macoupin County, Illinois. He bought 40 acres of farm on Hodges Creek in Bird Township of Macoupin County, Illinois. He hastily constructed a log cabin for his family for the coming winter. He farmed here for five years.

Joshua and Jane were listed in the 1840 Federal Census of Macoupin County, Illinois. They had eight children at that time in the household: two males age 10 and 15 years; and one female age 15 and 20 years.

In 1841 Joshua sold this farm and went to North Palmyra Township in Macoupin County, Illinois. He rented a farm here for three years. Then in 1844 he bought eighty acres of land in the Barr Township of Macoupin County, Illinois. Here he, Jane, and their family resided for several years.

Joshua and Jane appeared in the 1850 Federal Census of Macoupin County, Illinois. There were eight children at home. They were: John, age 23; Richard, age 21; Robert, age 19; Isaac H., age 17; James, age 13; Elizabeth J., age 11; Francis M., age 8; and Martha, age 5. Their eldest daughter, Catherine, was already married and lived nearby according to the census record.

In September of 1856, Joshua and his wife Jane went with the part of their family to Phelps County, Missouri where Jane died.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, he and a few of his children returned to Macoupin County, Illinois.

In the 1870 Federal Census of Macoupin County, Illinois, Joshua was listed with his son, James Miller Ragan. They were living in Township 11, Range 8 there at that time.

Joshua died at his farm in "Sowest Section 29, Township 11, Range 8".

Joshua died intestate according to the existing Macoupin County, Illinois records. His son, Francis Marion Ragan, was appointed as administrator of his father's estate by the Court of Macoupin County, Illinois on 19 November 1874.

A final settlement of the estate was ordered and made by the County Court on 1 January 1877. The names of Joshua and Jane Huskey Ragan's children are given in the intestate popers still in existence.

In 1836, they moved and stayed a few months in St. Clair County, Illinois. Then in June of 1836 they bought a farm in Bird Township, Macoupin County, Illinois.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 2a, 48.
"The Book of Ragan/Reagan," Donald B. Reagan, 1993, p 367, 368, 369.

Joshua married Jane Huskey Abt 1824, Sevier County, Tennessee. Jane (daughter of Isaac Huskey and Jane Miller) was born 1806, Sevier County, Tennessee; died Aug 1857, Phelps County, Missouri; was buried Huskey Cemetery, Cold Springs Township, Phelps County, Missouri. [Group Sheet]