Person

Ferdinand H. Ragon (Trigg County, Kentucky, merchant.)

b. 1826-07-16 d. 1880-07-31

Trigg County, Kentucky, merchant. Logan County, Kentucky, native. Married to Mildred C. Jameson Ragon in Trigg County, Kentucky, on August 5, 1847. Father of Thomas E. Ragon, Marian "Mallie" B. Ragon, Daniel S. Ragon, and Addie Ragon. Merchant in Trigg County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1850. Merchant in Trigg County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1860. Merchant in Trigg County in 1863. Grocer in partnership with E. Dickey in Ragon & Dickey in Evansville, Indiana, in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1, p. 291B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Cadiz, p. 187.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Cadiz, p. 391A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Vanderburgh County, Evansville Ward 2, p. 185A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Trigg County, KY, June 1863, p. 20.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Trigg County Marriages, Film 000321335.

"In Memoriam," Daily Journal (Evansville, IN), August 1, 1880, p. 5.

Williams & Co, ed. William’s Evansville Directory, for 1865. (Evansville: E.J. Dobell, 1866, 144.

Joseph P. Elliott, _A History of Evansville and Vanderburgh County, Indiana: A Complete and Concise Account from the Earliest Times to the Present, Embracing Reminisces of the Pioneers and Biographical Sketches of the Men Who Have Been Leaders in Commercial and Other Enterprises (Evansville, IN: Keller Printing Company, 1897), 352-4.

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Ragon, Ferdinand H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214717 (November 12, 2026).

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