Clayton County GaArchives Biographies.....Mason M. Ragsdale 1805 - February 1872 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: John C. Ross, Jr. 5512jr@comcast.net August 4, 2003, 12:11 am Author: John C. Ross Jr Mason M. Ragsdale was born in SC. in 1805. He died in Clayton County GA. Feb. 1872 and the information from Ancestry .Com states that he is buried in the Adamson Fielder Cemetery in Clayton County Ga. This information also has a photo of his headstone marked " Ragsdale Mason M. 1806-1872." I have located him in the 1870 census for Clayton County Ga. His Father was Elijah Ragsdale born Nov. 1, 1778 Mecklenburg Co. VA and his Mother was Mary Kennedy born about 1779 in South Carolina. His son (my Great Grandfather) was William or Williamson L Ragsdale. I list both given names as he appears in the 1870 Census for Fulton County Ga as William L. Ragsdale and in the 1880 Census for Palo Pinto County Texas as Williamson L. Ragsdale. children of Mason MOSLEY Ragsdale and Mary Jane Henery: 1. Zipporah Ragsdale born in Ga, date of birth unknown but estimate 1835 2.Asbury M Ragsdale born in Ga. daye of birth unknown but estimate 1836-37in Ga. 3. William L. Ragsdale Born 27 Oct. 1828 in Marietta Cobb Co, Ga. 4. Mary Jane Ragsdale Born 25 June 1832 in DeKalb Co. Ga. 5.James Berry Ragsdale Born 27 May 1834 in Henery Co. Ga. 6.Jesse Cleveland Ragsdale Born 23 April 1836 in Ga. 7. Martha Ann Ragsdale Born about 1838 in Ga. 8. Sarah Frances Ragsdale Born about 1840 I know the resting place of my Great Grandfather William Ledford Ragsdale . He is buried in Clear Lake Cemetery in Palo Pinto Co. Texas having passed away 1- 19-1886. I know the resting place of Mason and his wife and of Marth to be the Adamson Fielder Cemetery in Clayton Co. Ga. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb