Brief Life History of Frances
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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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Francis Caps in household of James Ragain, "United States Census, 1860"
- Frances Raigan in household of Jamy Raigan, "United States Census, 1850"
Parents and Siblings
World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
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.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
Name Meaning
Probably a variant of Ragain .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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