City: Murfreesboro<\/p>\n
RAGSDALE, Thos. Charleton<\/strong>, minister of the gospel; born Laurens district, S. C., Dec. 26, 1863; English-Irish descent and German descent; son of Edward Carter and Elizabeth Sarah (Calhoun) RAGSDALE<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, physician, local preacher and farmer; paternal grandparents, Edmund and Sallie (Hill) RAGSDALE<\/strong>, maternal grandparents, E. and Fannie (Sullivan) CALHOUN<\/strong>; educated at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; moved with parents to Texas in 1868, reared on farm; licensed to preach in 1883; married Adele A. ARMSTRONG<\/strong>, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 9, 1886; member Knights of Pythias, and Knights Templar Masons; Democrat; chaplain of house of Tenn., general assembly, 1899; member of M. E. church, South, and Tenn., conference; joined N. W. Texas conference in 1888 and served churches in Cisco and Fort Worth, Tex., transferred to Tenn., conference in 1893; stationed at Fayetteville, Tenn., in 1893, West Nashville, 1896, Clarksville, 1899, West End (Nashville) 1902, Pulaski, 1906, and Murfreesboro since 1908.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Murfreesboro RAGSDALE, Thos. Charleton, minister of the gospel; born Laurens district, S. C., Dec. 26, 1863; English-Irish descent and German descent; son of Edward Carter and Elizabeth Sarah (Calhoun) RAGSDALE; father\u2019s occupation, physician, local preacher and farmer; paternal grandparents, Edmund and Sallie (Hill) RAGSDALE, maternal grandparents, E. and Fannie (Sullivan) CALHOUN; educated at Vanderbilt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,205,329,600,45,87,7,4419],"tags":[125,2083,4369,683,4385],"class_list":["post-8575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-davidson","category-giles","category-lincoln","category-montgomery","category-rutherford","category-surname-r","category-vanderbilt-university","category-x_featured-image-no","tag-armstrong","tag-calhoun","tag-hill","tag-ragsdale","tag-sullivan","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8576,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575\/revisions\/8576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}