JACOB WILLIAM RAGAN (1894 - 1972)
Jacob William Ragan (1894 - 1972) Jacob William "Poppa" Ragan 1963 I remember my grandfather as "Poppa" and grandmother as "Momma". Poppa was born July 21, 1894 in Toone, Hardeman County, Tennessee to Nathaniel Francis Ragan and "Nannie" Nancy Catherine McClendon Ragan, the fifth child of the ten children of this union. After his mother's death in 1906, his father remarried to Maggie Loney McCoy, and he was to share biscuits with yet another six half-brothers and one half-sister. He was named for his maternal great-grandfather, Jacob McClendon, believed to have been properly Jacob William McClendon. His father Nathaniel was a very successful man, owning vast acreage of farm and timber, and substantial numbers of beef cattle. Hundreds of acres were always in cotton. He owned meat markets and grocery stores in Hardeman and Madison County, Tennessee to market his own as well as neighboring farms produce. Unlike his ow