When Frances Ragains was born about 1839, in Tennessee, United States, her father, James L Ragains, was 48 and her mother, Frances Cook, was 36. She lived in Marshall, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Probably a variant of Ragain .
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