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Horace Willam Ragan
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 25 Oct 1871 - Jackson County, MO Christening: Death: After 1935 Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Stephen Carter Ragan (1823-1908) Mother: Josephine Gennings Chiles (1837-1915) 1
Spouses and Children
1. *Minnie Redford (Oct 1873 - 8 Feb 1957) Marriage: 25 Feb 1898 Status: Children: 1. Ezra Ragan (1899- ) 2. Ralston Ragan (1900- )Living
Sex: F
Parents
Father: Verne Hood Ragan (1896-1962) Mother: Hazel Or Etha (1896-1966)Cpl. Jacob Ragan
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 7 Dec 1792 - Lexington, Fayette, KY Christening: Death: 7 Nov 1878 - Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri Burial: in Union Cemetery, 27Th -30Th, Kc, MO Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Pvt. John Ragan (Abt 1750-Abt 1820) Mother: Mary Younger ( -1844)
Spouses and Children
1. *Anna Chastian Carter (6 Feb 1797 - 8 Mar 1886) Marriage: 1815 - Bath Co., KY Status: Children: 1. Greenberry Llewellyn Ragan (1816-1886) 2. John Ragan (1821-1887) 3. Captain Stephen Carter Ragan (1823-1908) 4. Eveline Or Evelyn T. Ragan (1825- ) 5. Magdalene Carter [Chastain?] Ragan (1827-1919) 6. Joseph H. Ragan (1834-1857) 7. Mary Ann Ragan (1836-1919) 8. Virginia Ragan (1842-1906)
Notes
General:
From the Kansas City Star March 21, 1926
The Ragan Farm
Led by an adventurous spirit to the Missouri frontier in 1837, Jacob Ragan paid $1,000 for 120 acres of wilderness land, today bounded roughly by Thirty-first and Thirty-seventh, Oak and Holmes street, and proceeded to transform it into a farm and a family homeplace. Novelty there was in this venture, but the danger of it was not new, for Jacob Ragan had become inured to hazardous situations. His first experience in that regard had come in the War of 1812 at the battle of Lake Erie under Perry.
Casting over his farm for a site for his house, the pioneer chose ground near what now is the site of the Newbern Hotel at Armour and Cherry streets. He was influenced, so the family tradition goes, by a fine spring at what is now the corner of Armour and Robert Gillham road on the site of either the Georgian Court or Sombart apartments.
In company with his widely scattered neighbors, Jacob Ragan formed one of the very early churches of Jackson County. He built near the intersection of Thirty-seventh and Holmes streets a log church. This building and its site the pioneer gave to the church congregation, and Frank Palmer, who had been preaching in private homes and in the older community of Independence, was obtained to occupy the rustic pulpit. This was the beginning of the Christian church in what became Kansas City. So widely scattered was this frontier congregation that regular services were held only once a month.
When a company was formed to promote a town at Westport Landing, Jacob Ragan became a member. He also was a lot owner in the prosperous outfitting station of Westport, in relation to which his farm was "close-in" property.
In 1867 the pioneer sold the "north forty" of his farm to the Widows' and Orphans' Home Society of Kansas City, an organization intent upon relieving the misery of unfortunate survivors of Confederate veterans. This property, given to the state, subsequently was improved by the legislature for that purpose. Later, after state aid had been withdrawn by a succeeding legislature, the property was turned back to the society, which attempted to operate a girl's school there. In 1881 the property, forty acres with the building recently abandoned by the Little Sisters of the Poor, was bought at a forclosure sale by James R. Penniman, Lawrence F. Rieker, Hugh McElroy and Henry H Skiles for $25,175. This price was less than the cost of the principal building. Later, at the suggestion of Bishop Hogan, then a new Catholic head here, the Little Sisters of the Poor bought the buildings and ten acres of ground around them, paying $25,000 for this part of the property to the syndicate of speculators. The bishop himself had desired to buy the property for his diocese but he was engaged with planning and building the Cathedral and lacked both funds and credit for the purchase. The Little Sisters of the Poor still are the owners of part of the property.
The bulk of the original Ragan farm and sixty-nine acres additional, an irregular tract east of the Paseo at Thirty-seventh stree, and other property formed the estate of the pioneer at his death.
The family he established here is referred to as the "fighting Ragans" in the annals of the Missouri Valley Histoical Society. Stephen C. Ragan, son of the pioneer was a captain in the Confederate army and later was surgeon general of the United Confederate Veterans. His son, Dr. Stephen H. Ragan, a major in the recent war, died only about a year ago. He served in the medical corps dispite the fact he was over the age limit. Two of his sons also were officers in the recent conflict. One, Dr. Stephen T. Ragan, lives at Moberly, MO. Another, Walter H. Ragan, is a dentist with offices at Thirty-first and Holmes Street in a building which occupies a part of what was his great-grandfather's old farm.
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From the Kansas City Star March 17, 1936
The Ragan Family: Kansas City Pioneers
Kansas City, with its skyscrapers, celebrating this year the golden anniversary of its Live Stock Exchange and the sixty-sixth anniversary of the foundation of its first organized stockyards over in Kansas along the banks of the Kaw, may seem to the present generation rather far removed from the days that are brought to mind by the recurrence of such red letter days in its history. Beyond these comparatively recent date lie records of tradition and history that stretch the life of the city back beyond the century mark. But what, after all, is a century in the memory of man? The traditions of one generation are transmitted to another in a endless chain and it does not seem so strange, perhaps, that there should be living today in Kansas City members of pioneer families whose composite memories bridge a century of the city's growth and development.
Illustrating this link of tradition, Laurence Hutton, American essayist and dramatic critic, in his "Library Talks," once told of meeting with Lord Houghton in a club in London. Lord Houghton, then in his 80's, related that he had once dined with Samuel Rogers, the poet, who recalled that he had, in his youth, seen David Garrick upon the stage, that Garrick had seen Barton Booth and that Barton Booth was familiar with Betterton, who had been once in Davenant'sa company of actors and that Davenant was popularly supposed to be a son of Shakespeare. So that, sitting in a club in Loundon, the traditional link back to Shakespeare, across the centuries, seemed very intimate.
In Kansas City today there is the Ragan family. A hundred years and more lie back of the hisstory of this family in Kansas City. Motorists along the Bannister road and along the Blue Ridge highway are familiar with the modern home of Greenberry Ragan, familiarly known as Green Ragan, built upon some of the ancestral acres of the family and also the old log cabin, with a bell nearby, that still marks the plantation fo Coffey Rice, into whose family the Ragans intermarried. Mrs. Greenberry Ragan is an active spirit in the Kansas City Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution whose researches have preserved from oblivion the history of the pioneer families of Kansas City and Jackson County, Alexander Ragan, who lives ar 4272 East Sixty-second street, is the older brother of Greenberry Ragan, and like the latter an inheritor, as a lineal descendant, of a chain of memories of Jackson County and Kansas City history that date back to Jacob Ragan who settled here more than a century ago.
A Veteran of the War of 1812
Led by an adventurous spirit to the Missouri frontier, Jacob Ragan, a veteran of the War of 1812, in which he had served in the navy under Commodore Perry, the victor of the Battle of Lake Erie, settled in Jackson County, within the present city limits of Kansas City, in 1834. He paid $1,000 for 120 acres of wilderness that may be roughly bounded today by Thirty-first and Thirty-seventh streets and between Oak and Holmes streets. He built his farm home at or near the site of the present Newborn hotel, at Armour and Cherry streets. The site was made attractive by the presence of a fine spring of water near the corner of what is now Armour boulevard and Gillham road. This Jacob Ragan was a forward looking citizen. In company with his widely scattered neighbors he built one of the very earliest churches in Jackson County, a log structure near the intersection of Thirty-seventh and Holmes streets. This was the beginning of what became known as the Christian Church in Kansas City. He was also interested in the establishment of some of the earliest schools in Jackson County. He was a member of the first townsite company that platted the Prudhomme estate and laid the foundations for the future Kansas City.
Capt Stephen Ragan married Josephine Chiles, the daughter of Alexander Chiles and Letitia Rice, who lived on the old plantation through which Blue Ridge Boulevard runs today, and which is still marked, as an object of roadside interes, by a crumbling log cabin and a rusted plantation bell. The Rice family originally came from North Carolina. Later, Alexander Chiles entered land from the government south of what is now Bannister Road near Raytown road, and it was to this farm that Captain Ragan removed after his marriage. A few years later he bought a farm located at what is now the interestion of the James A Reed and the Bannister roads and it was there he reared his familly.
Surviving Stephen Ragan today are Alexander Ragan and Coffey R. Ragan of Kansas City, Freenberry Ragan of Hickman Mills, Dr. R.C. Ragan of Waldo, Horace Ragan in the branch office of the secretary of state at Kansas City, Ezra R. Ragan of Indianapolis, Ind and a daughter, Anna, now Mrs. Russell Noland, of 701 Benton Boulevard, Kansas City, who is an active member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
The section of Kansas City south of Thirty-first and extending from Oak street out to the Raytown neighborhood bristles with pioneer memories long cherished in the Ragan Family. Especially interesting, in view of the recent stock yards anniversary, are the recollections of Alexander Ragan, the eldest of the family, whose memory is clear back to the events of Civil War days and to the first stock markets that were available in Kansas City proper for the products of the Jackson County and neighboring farmers. As there were kings before Agarmemnon, so were there stock yards within Kansas City's ancient limits long before the establishment of the Kansas Yards in 1871 and so were there slaughter houses here long years before the big packers came to the river fronts.
The Old Toll Gate at 27th and Main
"I recollect we used to drive into town over the turnpike road as early as 1866 and we had to pass through the toll gate which was near the Union Cemetery, nearly opposite Mayor M. J Payne's residence, " sasid Mr Ragan to an interviewer a few days ago," and it was along this first thhroughfare that a good many cattle came into town from the outlying farms. The stock Yards that I remember were at Sixteenth and Grand avenue, run by a man names McComas. He had several opens and spring water nearby and the buyers used to come to the McComas yards to buy cattle, sheep and hogs and sometimes turkeys, and now and then a buffalo or two. Kansas City in those days had lots of good springs and they determined the routes of travel and the market places and the slaughter houses. There was a good spring at Twelfth and Grand Avenue, and another ner Thirteenth and Walnut streets, and several in the draw west of Grand Avenue close to the stock yards. The camping places of the old covered wagon trains on the Santa Fe Trail were marked by famous springs. Union Cemetery," continued Mr. Ragan, "is generally considered the oldest cemetery, but it really owes its origin to the Civil Was and the Battle of Westport. The soldiers were the first to be buried there. They put them first, both Confederate and Federal in trenches near the old Harris House at Westport. Afterwoards they were removed to Union Cemetery. But the first Kansas City public cemetery was at Fifths and Oak--a free cemetery--which afterwards became known as Shelley Park. But long before that there were private family cemeteries all over Jackson County, amoung them the McGee Cemetery, established as early as 1828 for the McGee family. Most of there family cemeteries that were within the old city limits gradually were absorbed by the city's growth and the bodies removed to Union and Later to Elmwood Cemetery.
"In the very early days, before the coming of the slaughter houses, we solved the fresh meat question by local clubs among the farmers. We killed our own hogs and cut them up, smoked the hams and bacons in smoke houses with hickory chips and preserved the tenderloins in corn shucks. But, of course, everybody wanted fresh meat, so we solved the problem in this was.
"In all the eastern townships, outlying the town, we organized beef clubs. Eight or ten of the farmers would get together and contribute a calf or a steer and we usually had a good butcher to cut them up he would get the hide and tallow for his work, and the meat would be distributed among the farmers. There was never any lack of fresh meat. Everybody drew lots for the different parts and a beef cutting lmeetilng was usually a scene of a good deal of Jollification. We usually pulled them off every two weeks, first at one farmer's house and then another.
"Then came the slaughter houses. A man named Lambader has a slaughter house out south of town. There was a nother one on Southwest boulevard, for people who would bring in their cattle along that road. There was one, I recaollect, at Thirty-third and Oak streets, on land that was leased by George M. Shelly, afterwards mayor, and leased by Shelly to the slaughter house man. A mile or so south of the present Westport High School was a nother slaughter house, near a big spring which used to gush out of the ground nearby. At what is now Forty-fourth and Agnes avenue, a man named A. Rose had a slaughter house as late as the 1890's. These all were the antecednets of the great packing houses that came later to the West Bottoms.
Driving herds of Turkeys to Market
"All the way between Kansas City and the Arkansas line farmers used to raise turkeys and they used to drive them into the yards at Sixteenth and Grand avenue by Turkey cowboys--much in the same way as they drove cattle on the open road The 'herds'usually had a big gobbler leader and the driver walked alongside the drove, let them rest once in a while, but usually rounded them up in the market and sold out the entire herd. I remember my father telling me that he had known of a flock of 700 turkeys being driven into Kancas City's market from Arkansas. In bringing hogs to market, all the farmers would put their hogs lin together and when they got to the pens, the hogs, from habit, would cluster together in their old family relations so that each farmer could pick out his own bunch."
The coming of the Missouri Pacific railway in 1869 changed these primitive conditions, and the building of the Hannibal bridge gave the farmers of Jackson, Cass and Bates counties the opportunities of shipping their cattle to larger markets. But the farmers still continued to drive in their livestock to Kansas City over the old roads. Many cattle, in the late '60s, said Mr. Ragan came in from Texas. At one time Stephen Ragan, father of Alexander Ragan, frove a herd of Longhorn Texas Cattle from Southern Texas up to the Kansas City Stock Yards and they sold at a higher price than Shorthorn cattle, owing to the demand for decorative horns for hall trees--but it was not long before the Longhorns passed out of existence, owing to the difficulties in shipping when the railroads came to sulplant the old trails. J.P.G.
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1840 Census--United States Microfilm roll no 224 State of MO, County of Jackson
page no 20 line on page 19
Jacob Ragan males: 1 5-10 2 15-20 1 20-30 1 40-50 females: 1 under 5 1 5-10 2 10-15 1 20-30 1 40-50
total 10 3 in agriculture
transcribed by ghf July 10, 2001
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1850 Federal Census information.
roll 402
Free inhabitants in the Kaw Township, County of Jackson, State of Missouri
enumerated on the 10th of August 1850 by C.R. Burns
Line on page 8
Dwelling No 13
Family No 13
Ragan, Jacob age 58 male farmer value of real estate 2000
born in KY
Ann age 52 female born VA
Mary A. age 14 female born KY
Joseph age 16 male born KY
Virginia age 12 female born MO
transcribed by ghf Aug 1995 MCPLNI
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1860 Federal Census Information
Roll 625
page no 173
Free inhabitants in Division 35 in the Counth of Jackson State of Missouri, enumerated by me on the 26th day of July, 1860 John L Detchenendy
Line on page 39
Dwelling No 1399
Family no 1452
Jacob Ragan age 67 male farmer value fo reals estate 10,050
value of personal estate 4497 born in KY
Anna age 63 female housekeeper born in VA
Mary A. age 24 female born in KY
Virginia age 18 female born in MO
transcribed by ghf MCPLNI
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1870 Census--United States Microfilm Roll No 781 series M593 MCPLNI
page 9
Inhabitants in Westport Township, in the county of Jackson, State of Missouri, wnumerated by me on the 10 day of August, 1870 Post Office: Independence
line on page 21 dwelling house number 67 Family number 65
Ragan, Jacob 77 at last birthday male white farmer value of real estate 16,000
value of personal estate 150 born KY male citizen over 21
Anna 72 female white keeping house born VA Mary A 25 female white keeping house born KY
transcribed by ghf, July 10, 2001
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From: Kentucky Soldiers of the War of 1812 (976.9 K4194 MCPLNI)
p. 125
Roll of Captain Richard Menifee's Co, Kentucky mounted Volunteer Milita
Commanded by Col. John Donaldson
Ragan, Jacob
4th corporal
date and place of muster Newport August 26, 1813
mustered out Nov 4, 1813
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Jackson County Westport School Tax List 1869 p 110: Jacob Ragan
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From :Soldiers Buried at Union Cemetery, Vol iii page 11 MCPLNI Gen RRef JCo 32C
Jacob Ragan
December 7, 1792 - November 7, 1878
Capt. R. Menefee's Co., KY Militia
War of 1812
From the Native Sons of Kansas City Archives-----
Jacob Ragan was born in Lexington , Ky., December 7, 1792, son of John Ragan and Mary Younger, and died in Jackson Co., Mo., November 7, 1878. He was originally buried in the Ragan family cemetery at 36th and Cherry. He was a color-bearer in the War of 1812. He married Anna Carter in Bath Co., Ky., in 1815. The original Ragan farm home was built at Locust and Armour boulevard. He was an ardent sympathizer with the southern cause during the Civil War. He gave land for a Confederate Widows and Orphans home at 31st and Gillham. Sons Stephen C. and Greenberry L. served in the Confederate army.
He werved in the War of 1812 under Commodore Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie and came to Jackson County, Missouri in 1834. He paid $1,000 for 120 acres, 31st to 37th and Oak to Holmes. He was one of the 14 original land owners of the townsite of the Town of Kansas, now Kansas City.
Jacob Ragan is now buried in Section B, Lot 20, at Union Cemetery. A large monument on the Ragan lot bears the following inscription:
"Jacob Ragan Born in Lexington, Ky. Dec 7, 1792. Removed to Jackson Co., MO Oct 31, 1837 He was an active member of the Old Town Co. of Kansas City Mo and for nearly fifty years a consistent Christina. He died as he had lived. Loved and respected by all. Nov 7 1878 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith."
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Jackson Co., MO Wills 1828-1862 Meador Gen RRef JCo 44 MCPLNI
EE126 Andrew P. Patterson died intestate, Jacob Ragan makes bond appointed administrator. April 18, 1841
EE 151 Andrew P. Patterson Jacob Ragan secured by William Gillis and Lewis Vogle, makes bond of $1,000 to administer estate. April 13, 1841 No heirs given April 14, 1841
FF80 Jesse Ragan will--Jacob Ragan named executor Oct 3 1843
FF56 Jesse Ragan granted administrator Oct 3, 1843, Jacob Ragan and others make bond of $3600 to administer estate Oct 3, 1843
FF83 Jacob Ragan named heir to estate of Mary Ragan Feb 5, 1844
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Taken from Abstract of Title for Lots in Kenwood Subdivision
Book AA page 224 Last Will and Testament In the Probate Court of Jackson
County, MO
Of at Kansas City.
Dated July 14, 1868
Jacob Ragan Filed Jan 7, 1879
Signed and published by the said Jacob Ragan as his last will and testament
A Will of Real Estate
I, Jacob Ragan, considering the uncertainty of this mortal life, and being of sound mind and memory, blessed be Almighty God for the same, do make and publish this last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say:
First. I give and bequeath unto by beloved wife Anna, all the following property both real and personal, to-wit;
The farm on which I am now living, with the tenements and appurtenances, situate in the Township of Kaw, County of Jackson, State of Missouri, and known as the S. half of the W. half of the S.E. quarter of the N.E. quarter of Sec. 17, Town 49, Range no 33, containing 40 acres; also the N.W. quarter of the N.E. quarter of Sec. No. 20, Town, 49, Range No 33, containing 40 acres; also Lot 28, in the
Town of Westport, MO., lying on Main street in said town, and west of property belonging to Godfrey Horning, and E. of the property known as the property of Joel T. Morris, supposed to be 72 feet front and 144 feet in depth, with all the appurtenances thereto belonging.
Also all the money I may have at the time of my death; also all the goods and chattels and personal effects of whatsoever description, for and during her natural life, or so long as she shall remain single and unmarried, after paying all of my just debts and funeral expenses.
2nd. I give and bequeath to my daughters, Mary Ann Ragan and Virginia Kritzer, as their full portion of my estate, both personal and real, the following described real estate, situate in Jackson County, MO., to-wit:
Begin at the N.W.---------------of the E. half of the N.W. qr of Sec 21, Town 49, Range 33, and running E 64 poles; thence S 22 degrees, W 12 4/10 poles; thence S 47 degrees, W 18 poles; thence E 24.6 poles; thence S 95.2 poles; thence W 79.7 poles; thence N 160 poles to the place of beginning, 69 acres, be the same more or less, with all the appurtenances thereto belonging, as described and set forth in my deed to them for the above mentioned property.
3rd. I give and bequeath to my sons, Greenburry L. Ragan, John Ragan and Stephen C. Ragan and daughter Magdaline Johnson equally share and share alike alfter the death of my wife Anna, all my property both personal and real as described and set forth in the forgoing bequest to her willing and directing that should my wife Anna at any time after my death wish to assist any of my children, she shall have full power to do so out of the first above mentioned bequest.
This my last will and testament to all intents and purposes.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this (14th)fourteenth day of July, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight
JACOB RAGAN, (Seal)
The above instrument consisting of one sheet was now here subscribed by Jacob Ragan the testator in the presence of each of us and was at the same time declared by him to be his last will and testament and we at his request signed our names hereto as attesting witnesses:
THOS. J. GOFORTH, residing in Westport, Missouri
ROBT. T. MOORE, residing in Westport, Missouri
R.E.COWAN, residing in Westport Township, Jackson County, Missouri, (Feb. 6, 1872).
This is a codicil to my last will and testament being date the 14th day of July, 1868, to-wit:
Since the date of my said last will and testament I have sold twenty acres of the land bequeathed to my wife for life, and at her death to my sons Greenburry L, Stephen C, John and my daughter Magdaline, and of the proceeds of the sale thereof have paid to my son John the sum of Three thousand three hundred and seventyo-two dollars, leaving him still due hime th sum of six hundred and twenty-nine dollars which said last mentioned sum when paid his is intended to be in full of his interest in my estate both real and personal.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this 3rd day of April, A.D. 1872.
Jacob (his mark) Ragan
Signed and published by the said Jacob Ragan as and for a codicil to his last will and testament and we subscribed our names as witnesses in his presence and at his request the 3rd day of April, A.D. 1872. R.E. COWAN
J.F.WARD
S.L. COWAN
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Proof of Will
State of Missouri, County of Jackson ss.
Be it remembered that on this 26th day of Dec., 1878, personally appeared before the undersigned John T. Wilson, Clerk of the Criminal Court and Ex-officio Clerk of teh Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, Thomas J. Goforth and R.E. Cowan, two of the subscribing witness to the annexed instrument of writing signed by Jacob Ragan and purporting to be his last will and being by me first duly sworn depose and say that the said Jacob Ragan, the testator, subscribed the same in their presence and published the said will or instrument as his last will that he, the said testator, was at the time of publishing his said will of sound mind and more than twenty-one years of age and that they, the said deponents, attested the said will as witnesses thereto, by subscribing their names to the same in the presence of said testator.
R.E. COWAN
THOS.J. GOFORTH
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 26th day of December, 1878; witness my hand and the seal of sail Probate Court, at office in the City of Kansas, this 26th day of December, A.D. 1878.
JNO. T. WILSON, Clerk
(L.S.) By S.A.WILSON, D.C.
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Proof of Codicil
State of Missouri, County of Jackson, ss
Be it remembered that on this 26th day of December, 1878, personally appeared before the undersigned, Clerk of the Criminal Court and Ex-officio Clerk of the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid. R.E. Cowan and S.L. Cowan, two of the subscribing witnesses to the annexed Codicil to the last will of Jacob Racan, and being by me first duly sworn, depose and say that the said Jacob Ragan, the testator, subscribed the same in their presence, and published the said instrument of writing as a Codicil to his last will and more than twenty-one years of age, and that they, the said deponents, attested the said Codicil as witnesses thereto by subscribing their names thereto in the presence and at the request of said testator.
R.E.COWAN,
S.L. COWAN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th day of December, A.D. 1878.
In testamony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at the office in the City of Kansas, this 26th day of December, 1878.
JNG. T. WILSON, Clerk.
(L.S.) BY S.A.WILSON, D.C.
STATE OF MISSOURI
County of Jackson ss
Be it remembered, that on this 26th day of December, A.D., 1878, same being in vacation of the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, the following proceeding were had and made by the clerk of said Court to-wit:
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In Matter Of The Last Will and Testament Of Jacob Ragan, Deceased.
Now, on this 26th day of December, A.D., 1878, comes S.C. Ragan and presents an instrument of writing, signed by Jacob Ragan and purporting to be the last will and testament of Jacob Ragan, deceased, and having heard the testimony of Thomas J. Goforth and R.E. Cowan, the subscribing witnesses to said instrument, and having also heard the testamony of R.E. Cowan and S.L. Cowan, subscribing witnesses to a Codicil annexed to said instrument, also signed by Jacob Ragan and purporting to be a Codicil to his last will in relation to the execution and publication of the said instrument and Codicil, it is by the Clerk here declared and adjudged that the said instrument of writing, and Codicil thereto so signed and proven as aforesaid, is the last will and testament of Jacob Ragan,deceased, late of Jackson County, Missouri, and ordered that the same be recorded.
The above is a true copy of the Record entry in admitting said last will to Probate.
Attest: JNO. T. WILSON, Clerk
by S.A. WILLSON, D.C.
Recorded January 7, 1879
The record entry last above shown also appears in Record E., Page 258, of Probate Records.
Record E., Page 367, February term, 1879, February 21, 1879
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In The Matter Of Last Will Of Jacob Ragan, Deceased, 495
Now, at this day the Court approved the act of the Clerk in vacation, in admitting to Probate the last will and testament of Jacob Ragan, deceased.
Estate marked "Final" on the index.
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Trustee of the State Union Baptist Church--see deed from Bath Co Deeds 1830-1832 LDS Reel 02729853772684 in Joseph Charter III file
RAGAN CEMETERY Near 36th and Cherry Streets Jacob Ragan, b: in Lexington, KY., Dec. 7, 1792; removed to Jackson County, MO., Oct. 31, 1837; d: Nov. 7, 1878. Was a color bearer in the War of 1812. Joseph H. Ragan, b: Dec. 29, 1834, d: Sept. 7, 1857 Ragan, Rane, son of G. L. and Jane P. Ragan, b: April 6, 1851, d: March 30, 1868 Javens, Everline T., b: Aug. 16, 1825, d: Jan. 29, 1852 Johnson, Jacob S., b: Jan. 1, 1847, d: May 7, 1849 Johnson, James H., b: Aug. 1822, d: Aug. 10, 1851. Was the first Undertaker in what is now Kansas City, Missouri N.B. In 1886 these remains were removed to Union Cemetery, Kansas City, MO.
Jacob Jr. Ragan
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 26 Jun 1854 - Jackson County, MO Christening: Death: 18 Nov 1860 - Johnson Station, Tarrant Co., TX Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Stephen Carter Ragan (1823-1908) Mother: Josephine Gennings Chiles (1837-1915) 1James Day Ragan
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Jan 1887 - Hickman Mills, Missouri Christening: Death: 1951 Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Greenberry Ragan (1860- ) Mother: Elizabeth Ann Foree (Abt 1859-After 1920)
Spouses and Children
1. *Stella Rice (Abt 1888 - Deceased) Marriage: Status: Children: 1. Living 2. LivingLiving
Sex: F
Parents
Father: Stephen Tomas Ragan (1888-1955) Mother: Florence McCully (1894-1983)Jesse Ragan
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1800 - , , KY Christening: Death: Between 13 Sep and 3 Oct 1843 - Jackson Co., MO Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Pvt. John Ragan (Abt 1750-Abt 1820) Mother: Mary Younger ( -1844)Living
Sex: F
Parents
Father: James Day Ragan (1887-1951) Mother: Stella Rice (Abt 1888- )Living
Sex: M
Parents
Father: Clarence Raymond Ragan (1900-1986) Mother: LivingPvt. John Ragan
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1750 Christening: Death: Abt 1820 - , Bath Co., KY Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John I Ragan (Abt 1720- ) Mother: Unknown ( - )
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Younger (Unknown - 5 Feb 1844) Marriage: Status: Children: 1. Elizabeth Ragan (1771-1855) 2. Cpl. Jacob Ragan (1792-1878) 3. Jesse Ragan (Abt 1800- ) 4. Richard Ragan (1805- ) 5. Dempsey Ragan (Bef 1820- ) 6. Living 7. Living 2. Unknown
Notes
General:
Will Book A Bath Co KY LDS Reel 0272994 p 261
List of the Sale of John Ragan Deceased December court 1820
See File for photocopy
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History of Bath Co, KY,,J A Richards, MCPLGen 976.9555 R391
p. 53
Second Circuit Court was held at the Young home on August 5, 1811 and Second Grand jury was composed of Lawson Robinson, John Forrell, Thomas Jones, Robert Galloway, JOHN RAGAN, Andrew Cartwell, Stoke Emmon....
1 Walter Chiles of Jamestown by Joanne Chiles Eakin, 134,135,245.
2 Ibid, 420,421.
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