The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-07
JUDGE REAGAN
..''|..DEAD ] IN. 1.|..''I| !.
WAS sole Surviving Member ,erllb'er q Ct
Confederate Cabinset--W ,tt n
III ina Congress.
EN- BAD Il EALTH SOME so TINE ,l''|I:
s,Vas Stricken Will, Pneumonia 1lee'ul'rrt'n|ifs
On Saturday and Grew Grew
Rapidly Worse.
E(By Associated Press.)

HOUSTON Il1A, Alurch ~ - w. ne
SsI1ohn III, Reagah, sole surviving member
Maj the Confederate Cabinet died to-day
Az at Palestine. Ttxas, OF. pneumonia. as
fs3ss Judge Rengan who was eishty-slx
4 Il Years old, had been III failing health for q
GEAR or more. He Mas in this city Thurs
day transac.ins business When her q he re- re-
turned home the family physician was
@.s called. Judge Reagan complaining Of
pain In the lungs. On Saturday pneu-
monia set m. and Judge Reagan grew
5$ rapidly worse. Gathered in the death
ls chamber we're his wife and daughters and
5s1V. Greenwood. his son-n-law
Hundreds Of kilograms of coincidence
IRE being received from all parts OF ne
limited States. The funeral will take
Ei place at Palestine Wednesday ternoon.l
Byj. John Henninger Reagan. senator, va $
born in Sewer county Tenn, October s.
8 ISIS. The a:ohr ancestral branches OF his
family were Irish, English. Welsh and
n German. and they all came across the 7
Atlantic before the American Revolution
/. airy War. Timothy Reagan, one OF his
Il great grandfathers, served in the CONT
y mental army during the Revolutions and 4
& was severely wounded In the battle Of
p Brandywine. One OF his grandfathers
u served as a surgeon In the Pennsylvania
lineEin the Revolutionary army, IL 85a
THE parents OF John H. Rea gan We're
very poor in this world s goods. In his
youth his time was divided 4 between as
sisting his father In a lanyard and in go
ing TO school until he was about fif-
teen or sixteen years old, when, he was
\ given permission to obtain his own ed uca-
tipn. He commenced by working on a
farm for 50 a month. Then, entering an
sfacndemc school, he paid for his board
Il By working mornings, evenings and Satur-
days. a friend gave him the management.
3SofS an extensive set of FIGURING and saw
mills thereby enabling him to raise money
to attend college St at MaryVille. Tenn
where he remained for something oversa
81 year. For a few months after leaving
college he sold goods at a country store
S2then ne went South, where he was told
that he could get better wages as a clerk
Tor school teacher and be enabled sooner
Ito return to college and graduate. IT'S
IN .55j Went to Texas.
s$${ He was offered favorable Inducements
TO proceed to Texas and sell goods for a
gentleman there. The project ended in
disappointment, but It, 81 landed him In
3l Texas, albeit without money or. friends,
When he reached Nacosdoches, in that
republic, war impended between The Cher.
8 okees and other Indian tribes and the
people OF Texas. He Joined the Texan
III army, intending at the close of the cam.
8I&paign to return to the United States. Tie
81 was In the battles of the 18th and 16tl,
G#of July, 1889, and behaved so CALAMITY
THAT on the morning after the second bat
ISStle General Albert Sidney Johnston then
Secretary of War for Texas, and Acting
8 President Burnett requested his presence
# at$headquarters and rendered him an APP
Il pointment as Junior second Lieutenant In
@ the regular army. He declined the ap-
pontmcnt, however, devotng himself to
n the study OF surveying. .3 &.
SE In the spring he was appointed deputy
# surveyor of the public lands and did
81 some work as such In what Is now Angc-
lima county. In December $780, he start
led out with one Of the first surveying
parties that reached the Upper Trinity
country, then only known by Indian ac-
counts. The country was occupied by hos
astile tribes, but was described as beauti-
@ful and fertile. Near is what Is known
as Jordan's Saline, in Van Zandt county,
his company encountered Indians. In the
melee that folloEed one Indian was kill
Led and several wounded /; one Of Rea CAMS
men also was slightly wounded, but his
company succeeded In capturing eight
horses and their packs. Heavy rains set
in, the streams became swollen. the men
u got discouraged, and NIL except himself
and five others returned to the settle.
ments. These six continued westward tt
tile waters Of the Trinity. making q
#numbersof surveys In what Is known as
Cedar Creek, In the present counties o.
SKaufman and Van. Zandt. Within thu
8 next two or three years Mr. Reagan did
~ great deal OF surveying in what is nov
e, Nacogdoches, Houston, Anderson, Hen
TX derson, Kaufman and Van Zandt coun
ties, and during the time participated II
several campaigns against the hostile In
sggdlans, did farm work, made rails, drov
vi oxen, and a little later was private teach
& er for the children OF a friend.
.tSl Pioneer Settler.
s In the fall OF 1874 he became one of TIL
pioneer settlers In the present Kaufman
county, having in the meantime beal
captain Of a militia company In active Sc,
&5avlce and justice OF the peace. He ha,
also a small farm, horses and cattle. an
commenced reading law in 1s45, IN Is;
way he received temporary license to practic
Gi law. In lS47 he WAS elected to tho Legs
"a lature OF Texas wns placed on the con-
87mittees Of judiciary, Federal relation:
public lands. apportonments of represer
tation and on enrolled bills. and took q