Jesse C Ragan (abt. 1801 - aft. 1880)

Born about 1801 in Person, North Carolina, United States

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Died after 1880 after about age 79 in Grainger, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Jesse Ragan, a twin and oldest child of ten living children born in 1801 to William Ragan and Sitty" *Bennett) Ragan, was born in Person County, North Carolina,^{[citation needed]} in the northeastern part of the state, a county that borders Virginia. His family left North Carolina and migrated to Tennessee.

Jesse married Sarah (Clark) Ragan, with whom he had three known children. In 1825, Jesse was awarded an additional land grant in Dickson, Tennessee by the governor of Tennessee, an 80-acre parcel described as, "On Hasley's branch of Yellow Creek adjoining the tract of land where he now lives and bound as follows to wit: Beginning at a double white oak marked J.R. the northeast corner of his ten-acre tract running west one hundred and sixty poles to a white oak thence south eighty poles to two black gums thence east one hundred and sixty poles to a post oak thence north eighty poles to the beginning."^[1] Jesse appears on the 1830 federal census that was conducted in Grainger County, Tennessee, with a household that included three young children, two boys and a girl.^[2]

Jesse fought during the Mexican War, serving as a Fifer with the 4th Tennessee Infantry.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

By 1950, he had returned to Grainger County.^[8] No record is found of Jesse in the 1860 or 1870 census; he's found again in the 1880 census, at the age of 79, living with his daughter-in-law, Nancy Reagan, widow of Jesse's son, Charles, who lived in District 13 of Grainger County, Tennessee.^[9]

No record is found of his death or burial in Grainger County.

Sources

1. ↑ Tennessee. Division of Archives, Land Office, and Museum. Early Tennessee/North Carolina Land Records, 1783–1927, Record Group 50. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tenn. Ancestry.com. North Carolina and Tennessee, Early Land Records, 1753-1931 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Ancestry Record 2882 #194846 with attached Image
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1830", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHP9-6CS : Thu Jul 20 19:19:06 UTC 2023), Entry for Jesse Ragan, 1830.
3. ↑ "United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLXQ-RV62 : 13 March 2018), Jesse Ragan, 1846-1848.
4. ↑ "United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLX7-3882 : 13 March 2018), Jesse Ragan, 1846.
5. ↑ "United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLX7-Q3XX : 13 March 2018), Jesse Ragan, 1847.
6. ↑ "United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLXQ-VWFG : 13 March 2018), Jesse Ragan, 1848.
7. ↑ "United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZPY-35C : 13 March 2018), Jesse Ragan, 1853; citing Pension, Tennessee, NARA microfilm publication T316 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 821,608.
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1850", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCDX-W2G : Tue Jul 18 01:38:54 UTC 2023), Entry for Jessie Ragen and Sally Ragen, 1850.
9. ↑ "United States Census, 1880", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD7H-JH4 : Thu Aug 03 14:59:54 UTC 2023), Entry for Nancy Ragan and George Ragan, 1880.