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Elijah Kennedy Ragsdale

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Elijah Kennedy Ragsdale

Birth
Cobb County, Georgia, USA
Death
10 Feb 1882 (aged 36)
Paulding County, Georgia, USA
Burial
Paulding County, Georgia, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sixth Row
Memorial ID
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4th great-grandson of Godfrey I and Mary Ragsdale.

"Elijah K. Ragsdale is listed in Compiled Service Records in Civil War section of Georgia Archives as a Corp and Sergt. in Company F, 28th Battalion, Georgia Seige Artillery, Confederates enlisted 1 Oct. 1863 at Dallas, Ga. by W. A. Ragsdale, Lt. (his brother) for the war. There are clothing receipts on record for him and he was present to Dec. 1864. One E. K. Ragsdale is listed in Company F, 1st Georgia Infantry Confederates as captured at New Bern, N. C., listed as living Atlanta, sent to Cincinnati, Ohio as paroled prisoner." Ref: Mrs. Blake Ragsdale VanLeer, Ragsdale Family in England and America, (Compiled & © 1975 by June Hart Wester), p 102.

Married Sallie Elizabeth Allen , August 9, 1873 in Paulding Co., GA.
One known child:
Eugene Wofford Ragsdale (m Florence Hunt).

Retail Merchant & Grocer.
4th great-grandson of Godfrey I and Mary Ragsdale.

"Elijah K. Ragsdale is listed in Compiled Service Records in Civil War section of Georgia Archives as a Corp and Sergt. in Company F, 28th Battalion, Georgia Seige Artillery, Confederates enlisted 1 Oct. 1863 at Dallas, Ga. by W. A. Ragsdale, Lt. (his brother) for the war. There are clothing receipts on record for him and he was present to Dec. 1864. One E. K. Ragsdale is listed in Company F, 1st Georgia Infantry Confederates as captured at New Bern, N. C., listed as living Atlanta, sent to Cincinnati, Ohio as paroled prisoner." Ref: Mrs. Blake Ragsdale VanLeer, Ragsdale Family in England and America, (Compiled & © 1975 by June Hart Wester), p 102.

Married Sallie Elizabeth Allen , August 9, 1873 in Paulding Co., GA.
One known child:
Eugene Wofford Ragsdale (m Florence Hunt).

Retail Merchant & Grocer.


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