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Submitted: 1/31/11 • Approved: 6/1/18 • Last Updated: 6/27/23 • R456944-G0-S3
October 3, 1841 - December 12, 1927
John Ragin Broughton has been a resident of Bradley County, Ark., since December, 1859, although his birth occurred in Sumpter District, S. C., October 3, 1841. He is one of three children born to Edward N. and Epsie E. Broughton, their names being: Letitia B. (who died in November, 1879), Maggie L. (who is living in Ouachita County, Ark., with her husband H. F. Richardson), and John Ragin ( who first settled in Arkansas in Ouachita County, in January, 1859). The principal part of his rearing was received in Greene County, Ga., and there he received a good English education. At the age of sixteen years he began doing for himself, and that he has succeeded is amply proved, when the fact is known that he owns 427 acres of land, 100 acres of which are under cultivation, exceedingly fertile and will average one bale of cotton to the acre. In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate army, in Blankenship's Company, Ninth Arkansas Regiment, and served as a private and non-commissioned officer, until being moved to the Indian Territory. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Broughton resulted in the birth of two children: William E. and Epsie L. Mrs. Broughton died August 7, 1889. (Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas - Goodspeed Publishing Company - Chicago, Nashville and St. Louis - 1890)
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