Genealogy and History of the Extended Ragle Family

This site contains information on individuals in several Ragle family lines. A draft of a text history is given below in several sequential sections. In addition, selected family pictures are available for browsing. These pics are taken from a large collection of Ragle pictures in TIFF and/or JPG format available from me. Another selection of pictures is contained in a FLICKR site, the URL of which is http://www.flickr.com/photos/41843828@N05/

If you find errors (either factual or HTML), please let me know. In any case, your input is very important! This site is updated and corrected on a regular basis, and the help of family members and others is very much appreciated. My email address is given below. If you are concerned about issues bearing on your own personal privacy, please read the note at the bottom of this page.

Ragle Family Genealogy

starting from the family of John Ragle and Elisabeth [Albert] Ragle
of southwest Virginia
but concerned particularly with the line arising from their son Jacob Ragle.

Pictures & Text

Old Chapel, University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts

1. The Ragle Family: Text narrative with pictures. This section starts in a general way with some early history and deductions about the Ragle surname in the period just following the Revolutionary War, and gradually specializes to the family of Jacob and Susanna [Ritchey] Ragle as this branch of the family migrates into southern Indiana from southwest Virginia and eastern Tennessee.

Table of Contents [sections always under construction]:

• Preface. Comments. A short history of the author's family from 1800 to the present.
• Introduction. Data on Emigrants. Ships' Lists. Routes of Migration. Early Locations of Ragle Families.
• Ragle Family Relationships and Interconnections. Major Family Lines in the USA. Attempts at Reconstruction of Early Family Trees. Marriage, Land, and Military Service Data.
• Moving West -- Settling in Southern Indiana: Ragles in Orange County: Court Records from Paoli. 1830 Census Records.
• Southern Indiana, from Orange to Daviess County, mid-1830's: Introductory Comments. Land Purchase Records.
• Families and Family Ties, 1828 - 1880: The Generation Beginning with Peter Ragle and John Ragle. Their Descendents [First Generation].
• Biographical Sketch of Alonzo Ragle & Susan Ellen Toon. This is the writer's patriarchal line.
• Descendents of Alonzo Ragle & Susan Ellen Toon

2. A Picture Gallery of Descendents of Jacob Ragle & Susanna Ritchey. This picture collection covers principally the line of Peter Ragle [b. 1806] and his wife Margaret Wadsworth, but also contains material on Peter's siblings, Jacob [b. 1803?], Elizabeth [b. 1804, m. Fredrick Halfacre], John [b. 1808, m. Eliza Webster], Margaret [b. 1811, m. George Sutherlin?], and Susannah [b. 1812, m. Hiram Alfred Shepard], all born in Sullivan Co. TN. This is the writer's patriarchal line. Included are a few pictures and captions from the Hulbert family. This is the writer's matriarchal line. Another selection of pictures is contained in a FLICKR site, the URL of which is http://www.flickr.com/photos/41843828@N05/

3. Descendents of John Ragle, b. 1808. Material from the family line of Peter's brother, still in early stages of construction, and accordingly not as well organized yet as Item 2.

4. Martin Hagia and Parthena Parker Ragle. Texas and California Cousins from this vigorous line. Selected pictures from other lines. The hypertext tree contains many entries from descendents of the siblings of Jacob and Martin Ragle.

5. Some Interesting Places with Ragle Connections. Assorted Photographs.

6. Family Tree: Because several family members have expressed concerns about personal privacy and identity theft, this section has been deleted. If you have a legitimate need for the information contained in this 6500-individual file and are prepared to document that legitimacy, please contact me. My email address may change without notice, as I too have had problems with identity theft based on my email address.