Get your own Free Home PageEtta Catherine (Black) Ragle is shown in this photo, probably a wedding photo from 1893, with her husband, Will Ragle. She was a daughter of Dr. John Simpson Black and his wife Mary (Bastin) Black. (A photo of their tombstone is available on this website.) Etta was a great great great granddaughter of Thomas and Hannah (Brockman) Bastin of Caswell County, NC. The following text and photo is with permission of John L. Ragle, owner of the. Ragle Family Genealogy page .
"Probably a wedding picture. Will Ragle was b. November 25, 1866 in Raglesville, IN, the son of Alonzo and Susan Ragle, and d. February 06, 1944.
Etta Black was b. September 26, 1873 in Wilson Co. KS, d. October 04, 1943 in Los Angeles, CA.
Etta and Will eloped to Pueblo CO over the objections of Dr. Black and were married on April 27, 1893. The couple had one child, Harold Eugene Ragle , b. April 09, 1894. At this time they lived in Colorado Springs, CO.
From The Eureka Herald, May 12, 1893; Toronto Items: "The report was received here the first of the week that Mr. Will Ragle and Miss Etta Black, daughter of Dr. Black at Virgil, were married at Pueblo, Colo., last Thursday. The young lady left here a week ago to visit friends in Colorado and Will seems to have persuaded her to change her name while there. The happy young couple have many friends here and at Virgil, who extend hearty congratulations and wish them a blissful married life." "
(Photo and text are courtesy of John L. Ragle. Thanks!)
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