TERRELL COUNTY, GA - OBITS  Spann Ragan

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Terrell County, Georgia


Spann Ragan - Obituaries

This obituary was sent to me by Bill Ragan.  It was
originally copied and sent to him by E. Ragan Pruitt.
This obituary appeared in the Southern Christian
Advocate dated April 7, 1875.

Dr. Span Ragan was born in North Carolina, April 1st,
1818, was converted and joined the M. E. Church,
South, at Canyhead campground, in Lee county, in 1853;
and died in Terrell county, Ga., Jan. 24th, 1875.
He never doubted his conversion.  Naturally quiet and
unobtrusive, he made no loud professions, but he lived
right.  He loved the Church, delighted in Sunday-
school, and took a deep interest in all that pertained
to the property of Zion.  Among strangers, or in
promiscuous companies, his words were few, and his
manner retiring; but with his friends, he was sociable
and pleasing.  His conversation was always pure, and
his life one of unswerving uprightness.  In 1850, he
was happily married to Miss Lieurany J. Speight,
youngest daughter of Rev. Thos. Speight.  In the
relations of husband and father, he was faithful and
true, and was, with his pious wife, eminently
successful in training their children for God and the
Church.  When nigh unto death, he expressed a desire
to live for the sake of his wife and children.  He
said home had been to him almost heaven on earth, but
he was perfectly rerigned {resigned} to the will of
God. His end was peace.  He was long a faithful class-
leader at Salem church.  His death to us, is grievous
loss- to him, great gain. J. R. Littlejohn 


This obituary was found in the Bryan Family Bible,
originally owned by Terrell Bryan, half brother to
Spann Ragan. 

Bill Ragan, a Spann Ragan descendant, identified it as
one published in the  Dawson Journal on January 28,
1875. 


Deaths - Dr. Span Ragan died at his home in this
County on last Sunday morning, after lingering for
several weeks from an attach of typhoid pneumonia.
Truly can we say that a kind husband, an affectionate
father, an exemplary christian, and a useful citizen
has 'gone to that bourne from whence not traveler
returns.'

note:
Span Ragan was buried in the Ragan - Speight Family
Cemetery in Bronwood, Georgia.  I know that it is on
someone's farm. Just last year they placed a very
large monument at the site. Pictures of both the
monument and Spann's grave are on my web pages at the
following URL. 

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bryanquinn/Bryan-Cemetery-pics.htm