When Harriett Ragsdale was born on 26 August 1836, in Harrison Township, Daviess, Indiana, United States, her father, Larkin Ragsdale, was 31 and her mother, Polly Palmer, was 29. She married George Washington Horrall on 12 November 1854, in Daviess, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Steele Township, Daviess, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Veale Township, Daviess, Indiana, United States in 1900. She died on 13 January 1905, in Daviess, Indiana, United States, at the age of 68.
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Historical Boundaries 1841: Daviess, Indiana, United States
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English (Nottinghamshire): habitational name from Ragdale (Leicestershire). The placename appears to derive from Old English hraca ‘throat, gulley, narrow pass’ (genitive hracan) + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’. From the 16th century onward the more common form of the surname is Ragsdale with an intrusive -s-.
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