The following is extracted from the biography of Sealy Brown, who was the Ragan's son-in-law. Sealy married the Ragan's daughter, Johanna. The biography appeared in the "History of Montgomery County, Kansas, Illustrated," 1903:
"Marriage, with Mr. Brown, was an event of January 30, 1884. Johanna Ragan, his wife, was born in Jackson county, Missouri, on the 29th of August, 1864, the daughter of Joseph W. Ragan, a native of Kentucky, and of Mary Edgington, of Iowa. Soon after marriage, the Ragans settled in Kansas City, the father, in his earlier life, being a teacher. In 1869, the family came down into the then “wilds” of Montgomery county, Kansas, and filed on a claim, two and a half miles east of Coffeyville, where, later, the town of Claymore was built, and where Mr. Ragan conducted the first hotel thrown open to the public in the county. He died at this place, in 1875, aged forty-five. His wife survived him several years, her age at death being fifty-one. Two of their six children are now living: Mrs. Brown and Emily C. Bouilly, of Coffeyville. Mrs. Brown was at that age, when the family settled in the county, when events are deeply impressed on the mind, and she, yet, holds in distinct memory, many of the thrilling occurrences of that early day. The country was full of thieving Indians and worse white men, who kept her father in a constant state of alertness, lest he should lose everything portable, in the way of stock and property. The security and peacefulness of the present is in marked contrast to those days of lawlessness."
"Marriage, with Mr. Brown, was an event of January 30, 1884. Johanna Ragan, his wife, was born in Jackson county, Missouri, on the 29th of August, 1864, the daughter of Joseph W. Ragan, a native of Kentucky, and of Mary Edgington, of Iowa. Soon after marriage, the Ragans settled in Kansas City, the father, in his earlier life, being a teacher. In 1869, the family came down into the then “wilds” of Montgomery county, Kansas, and filed on a claim, two and a half miles east of Coffeyville, where, later, the town of Claymore was built, and where Mr. Ragan conducted the first hotel thrown open to the public in the county. He died at this place, in 1875, aged forty-five. His wife survived him several years, her age at death being fifty-one. Two of their six children are now living: Mrs. Brown and Emily C. Bouilly, of Coffeyville. Mrs. Brown was at that age, when the family settled in the county, when events are deeply impressed on the mind, and she, yet, holds in distinct memory, many of the thrilling occurrences of that early day. The country was full of thieving Indians and worse white men, who kept her father in a constant state of alertness, lest he should lose everything portable, in the way of stock and property. The security and peacefulness of the present is in marked contrast to those days of lawlessness."
The following is extracted from the biography of Sealy Brown, who was the Ragan's son-in-law. Sealy married the Ragan's daughter, Johanna. The biography appeared in the "History of Montgomery County, Kansas, Illustrated," 1903:
"Marriage, with Mr. Brown, was an event of January 30, 1884. Johanna Ragan, his wife, was born in Jackson county, Missouri, on the 29th of August, 1864, the daughter of Joseph W. Ragan, a native of Kentucky, and of Mary Edgington, of Iowa. Soon after marriage, the Ragans settled in Kansas City, the father, in his earlier life, being a teacher. In 1869, the family came down into the then “wilds” of Montgomery county, Kansas, and filed on a claim, two and a half miles east of Coffeyville, where, later, the town of Claymore was built, and where Mr. Ragan conducted the first hotel thrown open to the public in the county. He died at this place, in 1875, aged forty-five. His wife survived him several years, her age at death being fifty-one. Two of their six children are now living: Mrs. Brown and Emily C. Bouilly, of Coffeyville. Mrs. Brown was at that age, when the family settled in the county, when events are deeply impressed on the mind, and she, yet, holds in distinct memory, many of the thrilling occurrences of that early day. The country was full of thieving Indians and worse white men, who kept her father in a constant state of alertness, lest he should lose everything portable, in the way of stock and property. The security and peacefulness of the present is in marked contrast to those days of lawlessness."
"Marriage, with Mr. Brown, was an event of January 30, 1884. Johanna Ragan, his wife, was born in Jackson county, Missouri, on the 29th of August, 1864, the daughter of Joseph W. Ragan, a native of Kentucky, and of Mary Edgington, of Iowa. Soon after marriage, the Ragans settled in Kansas City, the father, in his earlier life, being a teacher. In 1869, the family came down into the then “wilds” of Montgomery county, Kansas, and filed on a claim, two and a half miles east of Coffeyville, where, later, the town of Claymore was built, and where Mr. Ragan conducted the first hotel thrown open to the public in the county. He died at this place, in 1875, aged forty-five. His wife survived him several years, her age at death being fifty-one. Two of their six children are now living: Mrs. Brown and Emily C. Bouilly, of Coffeyville. Mrs. Brown was at that age, when the family settled in the county, when events are deeply impressed on the mind, and she, yet, holds in distinct memory, many of the thrilling occurrences of that early day. The country was full of thieving Indians and worse white men, who kept her father in a constant state of alertness, lest he should lose everything portable, in the way of stock and property. The security and peacefulness of the present is in marked contrast to those days of lawlessness."
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