William
Ragsdale
Born about in Amelia, Virginia
Ancestors 
Son of John Ragsdale
and [mother unknown]
Brother of
Elizabeth Ragsdale, Lucy (Ragsdale) Young, Peter Ragsdale, James Ragsdale, John Ragsdale, Drury Ragsdale, Samual Ragsdale and Mary (Ragsdale) Buford
Husband of
Mary Elizabeth Lithey (Smith) Ragsdale
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
David Ragsdale,
Godfrey Ragsdale,
Thomas Ragsdale,
Susanna Ragsdale,
Mary Ragsdale,
William Camp Ragsdale II,
Robert Ragsdale,
John Ragsdale and
Lucy (Ragsdale) Smith
Died about
at about age 77
in Warren, Kentucky, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 19 Oct 2010
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Biography
This profile was written by Allan Thomas
William was born in 1738 in Amelia County, Virginia. He passed in 1815 in Warren, Kentucky.
unknown William Ragsdale served with the British Army during the French and Indian War.
Service Started: 1757
Unit(s): Capt. John McNeill's Company
Service Ended: 1762
Private William Ragsdale served with Virginia Militia during the American Revolution.- William Ragsdale was "Aide-de-camp to General Washington in the Colonial War and a Lieutenant in the Revolution in Virginia" - "A Ragsdale Family History in England & America"
Sources
- https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/14224025/person/332036907942/facts
- Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890:
- Virginia's Colonial Soldiers: https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FLHG-VAColonialSoldiers&h=342927&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
- https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/family/LKRS-PVJ
Acknowledgements
- Thanks to 229-Davies.ged for creating this profile on 19 October 2010.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
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~1.56%
Karen Williams
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A667665 [compare], Ancestry member karen_harmin
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~0.78%
Harry (Blanton) Binkow :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T594819 [compare]
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~0.78%
Karen Jones :
Autosomal DNA Test
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~0.39%
Amy (Lancashire) Barlow :
23andMe, GEDmatch SA7745039 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch FM9552750 [compare], Ancestry member amybarlow1975
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~0.39%
Tyler Hull :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch JP8617142 [compare], Ancestry member tjhull42
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