Stephen Carter Ragan

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Stephen Carter Ragan Veteran

Birth
Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky, USA
Death
14 Oct 1908 (aged 85)
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section B Lot 19 (Ragan family plot)
Memorial ID
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Battle Unit Name: 14th Reg. Texas Cavalry
Johnson’s Mounted Volunteers)
Side: confederacy
Co. I
Rank in: Captain
Rank Out: Captain
Film Number: M227 Roll 30
National Park Service – Civil War

A school teacher at Union Point School in southwestern Jackson County, Missouri, he married one of his students, Josephine Gennings Chiles. Joined the Texas State Militia, Captain of Company A, Colonel Griffin's Regiment. Fought at Farmington, Corinth, Chickamauga, and operations against Sherman. Also in the Texas 14th Calvary, Ben Johnson's Regiment. After the war he farmed and was married, had 11 children. In 1896 he was appointed Deputy County Marshal by Marshal Samuel H. Chiles. Listed in the 1895 Jackson County U.C.V. roster. He was president of the U.C.V.
Battle Unit Name: 14th Reg. Texas Cavalry
Johnson’s Mounted Volunteers)
Side: confederacy
Co. I
Rank in: Captain
Rank Out: Captain
Film Number: M227 Roll 30
National Park Service – Civil War

A school teacher at Union Point School in southwestern Jackson County, Missouri, he married one of his students, Josephine Gennings Chiles. Joined the Texas State Militia, Captain of Company A, Colonel Griffin's Regiment. Fought at Farmington, Corinth, Chickamauga, and operations against Sherman. Also in the Texas 14th Calvary, Ben Johnson's Regiment. After the war he farmed and was married, had 11 children. In 1896 he was appointed Deputy County Marshal by Marshal Samuel H. Chiles. Listed in the 1895 Jackson County U.C.V. roster. He was president of the U.C.V.

Inscription

STEPHEN C. RAGAN
B. 1823, D. 1909
Capt. Co. "I"
14th Texas
C.S.A. marker