MY MATERNAL GREAT GRANDFATHER--SERVED WITH THE CO.C.25 S.C. INF. CSA--HE WAS CAPTURED ON MAY 14,1864 AT DREWERY'S BLUFF AND HELD AT ELMIRA PRISON IN NEW YORK UNTIL THE END OF THE WAR. MARCH 10,1965 HE WAS INCLUDED IN THE JAMES RIVER PRISONER EXCHANGE. SHORTLY AFTER BEING RELEASED FROM PRISON HE AND HIS FATHER {MY GREAT GREAT GRANDPA} {WILLIAM RAGIN} AND THE REST OF THE FAMILY MIGRATED TO FLORIDA WHERE HE MET NANCY E. WELL AND THEY WERE MARRIED MARCH 2,1871. HE WAS A FARMER. AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH ACCORDING TO THE WIDOWS PENSION CLAIM HIS ASSETS WERE AS FOLLOWS 1. REAL ESTATE ESTIMATED $1,000.00 2. CATTLE HORSES & OTHER LIVESTOCK $75.00.
John Henry Ragin, a soldier of the Confederacy throughout the four years of the civil war, and since its close a citizen of the peninsula end of the county, died at his home, Piney Bluff on Dunn's Creek, on Friday the 14th inst. of hemorrhagic fever. His body was laid to rest in the Satsuma Cemetery on the following day.
Mr. Ragin was a native of Williamsburg county, S.C., and was born Dec. 18th, 1845. He went to the front on the first call for troops, and served the Confederacy through the four years of war, mostly in the western army. He came to Putnam county immediately after the war and has resided here continuously since. In all the years of reconstruction he was ever true to his people and took an active, though modest part in re-establishing democratic, or white supremacy. Mr. Ragin was of a most happy, cheerful disposition, and numbered his close friends by his acquaintances. His death is greatly deplored.
He has been in poor health for some months, though able to attend to his farm work up to but a short time before his death. (Palatka News Obituary dtd Friday, 21 Jan 1910.)
John Henry Ragin, a soldier of the Confederacy throughout the four years of the civil war, and since its close a citizen of the peninsula end of the county, died at his home, Piney Bluff on Dunn's Creek, on Friday the 14th inst. of hemorrhagic fever. His body was laid to rest in the Satsuma Cemetery on the following day.
Mr. Ragin was a native of Williamsburg county, S.C., and was born Dec. 18th, 1845. He went to the front on the first call for troops, and served the Confederacy through the four years of war, mostly in the western army. He came to Putnam county immediately after the war and has resided here continuously since. In all the years of reconstruction he was ever true to his people and took an active, though modest part in re-establishing democratic, or white supremacy. Mr. Ragin was of a most happy, cheerful disposition, and numbered his close friends by his acquaintances. His death is greatly deplored.
He has been in poor health for some months, though able to attend to his farm work up to but a short time before his death. (Palatka News Obituary dtd Friday, 21 Jan 1910.)
MY MATERNAL GREAT GRANDFATHER--SERVED WITH THE CO.C.25 S.C. INF. CSA--HE WAS CAPTURED ON MAY 14,1864 AT DREWERY'S BLUFF AND HELD AT ELMIRA PRISON IN NEW YORK UNTIL THE END OF THE WAR. MARCH 10,1965 HE WAS INCLUDED IN THE JAMES RIVER PRISONER EXCHANGE. SHORTLY AFTER BEING RELEASED FROM PRISON HE AND HIS FATHER {MY GREAT GREAT GRANDPA} {WILLIAM RAGIN} AND THE REST OF THE FAMILY MIGRATED TO FLORIDA WHERE HE MET NANCY E. WELL AND THEY WERE MARRIED MARCH 2,1871. HE WAS A FARMER. AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH ACCORDING TO THE WIDOWS PENSION CLAIM HIS ASSETS WERE AS FOLLOWS 1. REAL ESTATE ESTIMATED $1,000.00 2. CATTLE HORSES & OTHER LIVESTOCK $75.00.
John Henry Ragin, a soldier of the Confederacy throughout the four years of the civil war, and since its close a citizen of the peninsula end of the county, died at his home, Piney Bluff on Dunn's Creek, on Friday the 14th inst. of hemorrhagic fever. His body was laid to rest in the Satsuma Cemetery on the following day.
Mr. Ragin was a native of Williamsburg county, S.C., and was born Dec. 18th, 1845. He went to the front on the first call for troops, and served the Confederacy through the four years of war, mostly in the western army. He came to Putnam county immediately after the war and has resided here continuously since. In all the years of reconstruction he was ever true to his people and took an active, though modest part in re-establishing democratic, or white supremacy. Mr. Ragin was of a most happy, cheerful disposition, and numbered his close friends by his acquaintances. His death is greatly deplored.
He has been in poor health for some months, though able to attend to his farm work up to but a short time before his death. (Palatka News Obituary dtd Friday, 21 Jan 1910.)
John Henry Ragin, a soldier of the Confederacy throughout the four years of the civil war, and since its close a citizen of the peninsula end of the county, died at his home, Piney Bluff on Dunn's Creek, on Friday the 14th inst. of hemorrhagic fever. His body was laid to rest in the Satsuma Cemetery on the following day.
Mr. Ragin was a native of Williamsburg county, S.C., and was born Dec. 18th, 1845. He went to the front on the first call for troops, and served the Confederacy through the four years of war, mostly in the western army. He came to Putnam county immediately after the war and has resided here continuously since. In all the years of reconstruction he was ever true to his people and took an active, though modest part in re-establishing democratic, or white supremacy. Mr. Ragin was of a most happy, cheerful disposition, and numbered his close friends by his acquaintances. His death is greatly deplored.
He has been in poor health for some months, though able to attend to his farm work up to but a short time before his death. (Palatka News Obituary dtd Friday, 21 Jan 1910.)
