During the early years of the Cumberland Settlement, whenever there was "trouble" with the Indians, Hugh ROGAN was to be found. He was a "raw Irishman," whatever that may mean. He was born at Glentourn (now Glentown), County Donegal, Ireland, on September 16, 1747. Married Ann DUFFY of Lisduff, County Tyrone. One son, Bernard, was born to them at Lisduff in 1774 and died at Rogana, Sumner County, Tenn., in the month of February, 1873, aged 99 years and 3 months. Hugh served under the patriot of Grattan in his native land, and when his chief's cause failed he fled to America, arriving a few days after the battle of Bunker Hill was fought. He enlisted on the first ship built by the colonists in the War of the Revolution, and served in various capacities until the colonists had gained way to the southwestern frontier and came with the DONALDSON party down the Tennessee and up the Cumberland to French Lick. He first located at the mouth of Stone's River, but at the breaking up of that settlement he went to Mansker's Station, in Sumner County. He participated in all the battles and campaigns against the Indians; he was with ROBERTSON on the Coldwater expedition and was severely wounded near the mouth of Duck River. He defended Bledsoe's fort when attacked by the Indiana; he was with General Daniel SMITH in 1782, when he was attacked near where Cragfort now is. He was a man without fear, with a big, kind heart, and was a general favorite among the pioneers. He was one of the signers of the Cumberland Compact.

>From Mansker's Station, after a short time, he went to the fort of Colonel Isaac BLEDSOE, where he made his home. After there were no more Indians to fight he started back to Ireland to bring his wife and son over, but reaching Virginia, he was told that his wife, believing him dead, had married again. Greatly disappointed, he returned to Sumner County, but years later he received a direct message from his wife that the story of her marriage was false. In 1796 he again set out for the old country after an absence of twenty-one years. As soon as possible he returned to Sumner County, where he owned valuable lands, which are still occupied by his descendants. He died at Rogana in 1814. Francis, second son of Hugh and Ann Rogan, was born in Sumner County in 1798 and lived all his life and died, in 1886, on the farm at Rogana now owned by his son, William.