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John Biggers Ragland

5 Jul 1867 – 5 Apr 1933

Birth5 Jul 1867
Death5 Apr 1933
CemeteryCookeville City Cemetery
Cookeville , Putnam County , Tennessee , USA
Added byGNixon on 14 Aug 2011
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Name: John Biggers Ragland Death Date: 06 Apr 1933 Death Place: Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee Gender: Male Marital Status: Married Race or Color: White Age: 65 Estimated Birth Year: 1868 Birth Place: Tenn. Father: William Horden Ragland Father's Birth Place: Tenn. Mother: Ann Burton Mother's Birth Place: Tenn. Occupation: Farmer (Retired) Street Address: Civil Dis. 1 Cemetery: Aly Cemetery Burial Date: 08 Apr 1933 Collection: Tennessee, Death Records, 1914-1955 Putnam Herald April 13, 1933 John B Ragland died Thursday night at his home in this city following an illness of several weeks. He was a son of Dr William Hardin Ragland and Ann Burton and was born in Granville in Jackson County on July 6, 1867. For several years he was a merchant at Granville and was also engaged in farming.In 1902 he purchased the Algood Hotel property, which hotel at that time enjoyed a patronage second to that of no other hotel in this Upper Cumberland section, and for about 12 years he operated this hotel. Upon selling the Algood Hotel, he located in Cookeville. Since his removal to Cookeville, he had lived quietly and had not engaged in active business other than looking after his farms. He was twice married. On May 22, 1890, he was married to Miss Ella F Stanton; she died in 1891. On April 18, 1893, he married Miss Lassie McKinley, who, with their 3 children, survive him. Their children are Donald Hardin Ragland, assistant cashier of the Broadway National Bank of Nashville; Mrs Eugene F Jared and John B Ragland Jr of Cookeville. He is also survived by 2 brothers and 3 sisters: W E, Murfreesboro; Charles B, Nashville; Mrs T G Dillon, Campbellsville, Ky; Mrs Ernest H Boyd, Cookeville; Miss Nan Ragland, Carthage. One of his brothers, Ernest M Ragland of Nashville, died about a year ago. John was a quiet and unassuming man of retiring temperment, but he was a man of splendid intelligence and wide information and was a gentleman of the strictest integrity, who never intentionally deceived any man, nor wronged any person to the value of one cent. He was thoroughly devoted to his family and to his friends. He was a member of the Methodist church since his youth. Funeral services were conducted at the residence Saturday afternoon by Rev E M Steel with burial in the Cookeville cemetery.

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