Thomas Albert Ragland [10024]

  General Notes:

On the 1860 census record, he is listed as Thomas A. Raglin, age 38 and a plow maker with assets of $1500 - $7250. He is married to Fannie, age 18, b. VA and also living with them is Thomas B. Ragland, age 22 WM, b. VA listed as a plow wooder. (Thomas B. Ragland is noted in the marriage records book with his bond dated April 1, 1861 to Nannie Harris. There is also a Thomas B. Ragland noted in the 45th Regt., NC Infantry perhaps in Co. F. )

More About THOMAS ALBERT RAGLAND:
Burial: Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, Leaksville (now Eden), Rockingham Co., NC
Census: 1860, Rockingham Co., NC

It was a three hour drive there from my parent's Beech Mountain, NC place. I took my mother along and it was her maiden voyage into a genealogical hunt. We started at the Wentworth Courthouse in Rockingham County where all the historical records are supposedly kept. The clerk that I spoke with was helpful and friendly but assured me that they didn't have records from the period that I was asking about. My main quest there was to find out if my great great grandmother's name was Ann Frances or Amanda Frances Covington and to see if I could find her mother's real name (Sally Ray or Sarah Reed). Neither were attainable, so we got back in the Highlander and drove to a town called Madison where there was a genealogical room in the public library. We spent about 2 hours there digging through records and books. My mom was hooked within the first ten minutes when we came across a book entitled "Covingtons" and she recognized her great grandfather's name within a few minutes. We discovered where he was buried and then also found maps of the cemetery where his wife was buried. After our time in the library, we drove up to what used to be Leaksville which has now been combined with two other small cities into one city called Eden. It was there that we found the Church of the Epiphany and it's graveyard but couldn't find T.A. Ragland's gravemarker. That is why I wrote the letter to them when I got home and now I have their reply and their photos. We also found the Lawson Cemetery and took photos of T.A. Ragland's wife and two of their sons' graves there.
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Thomas Albert Ragland was a county surveyor and county clerk.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Burial. Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, Leaksville (now Eden), Rockingham Co., NC

Thomas married Amanda Frances "Fannie" Covington [10081] [MRIN: 3354], daughter of Edmund Covington [20639] and Sally H. Ray [20652], in 1860 in Rockingham, North Carolina. (Amanda Frances "Fannie" Covington [10081] was born on 26 Oct 1842 in Rockingham, North Carolina, died on 13 Sep 1918 in Leaksville, Rockingham County, North Carolina and was buried in Lawson Cemetery, Leaksville, Rockingham County, North Carolina.)