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Friends of the City Cemeteries
Villa Rica, Georgia
RAGAN
Daniel Sanford Ragan
Born: July 12, 1828, Walton County, GA
Died: October 2, 1890, Villa Rica, GA
Age: 65
Married: Margaret Catherine Minor-Ragan
Military Service: PVT Co I, 56th GA Regiment
Daniel and Margaret were married on March 21, 1858 in Carroll County, Georgia.
Daniel and Margaret had nine children:
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Franklin Eldorado 1859-1886
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​Sarah J 1861-1923
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William Sanford 1862-1926
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John H 1864-1929
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Mary F 1867-
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Nancy L 1870-
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Margaret Elizabeth 1872-
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Lizzie 1873-
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Charles H 1874-1926
Daniel was a registered voter in the Georgia Voter Registration Oath Books & Returns of Qualified Voters under the Reconstruction Acts of 1867.
William Sanford
Margaret Catherine
Daniel Sanford
Daniel Sanford
March 2023
Daniel has two headstones:
The 1st is a rounded, upright stone that reads IN MEMORY OF D.S. Ragan with his birth and death dates.
The 2nd is a government-issued gray granite upright headstone from the SCV.
May 2019
Margaret Catherine [Minor] Ragan
Born: May 15, 1838, South Carolina
Died: June 19, 1918, Georgia
Age: 80
Married: Daniel Sanford Ragan
The 1870 US Federal Census records Daniel and Margaret living in Villa Rica with their children. Daniel works on the farm, and Margaret works at home.
The Ragan family lived with David and Martha Harper and their children.
March 2023
A tender mother
and a faithful
friend.
Epitaph on Margaret's headstone
Franklin Eldorado Ragan
Born: January 25, 1859, Villa Rica, GA
Died: September 10, 1886, Villa Rica, GA
Age: 27
F. E. Ragan was Daniel and Margaret's oldest child.
March 2023
William Sanford Ragan
Born: August 22, 1862, Villa Rica, GA
Died: October 20, 1926, Douglasville, GA
Age: 64
March 2023
We trust our loss
will be his gain
And that with Christ
he's gone to reign
Epitaph on William's headstone
William was the Douglas County Treasurer
Douglas County Sentinel, Douglasville, Georgia, July 20, 1917
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