Stanley Brown reported that Rebecca Ragsdale may have been the daughter
or sister of John Ragsdale. Stanley was a Justice of the Peace in the Montgomery
county area and had much knowledge of people that lived in the area.
Stanley wrote,
    "Ripley Brady married first Rebecca Ragsdale and they had one child,
Sarah Jane. Ripley and Rebecca married Jan. 16 1848. She was 18 years
old in the 1850 census (Montgomery County Arkansas.) She could have
been a sister or a daughter of your great-grandfather John Ragsdale."
He goes on to write,
    "After Ripley and Rebecca separated she married James Irons and
moved back to the Washita Area."

Rebecca is listed as being born in 1832 and did marry James Irons on
September 21st 1854. They had five children named,
Martha C. Irons
Jonathon Irons
James Crow Irons
Almeda Irons
Eliza Irons

    I am to the thinking that Rebecca is one of the girls listed on the 1840
census of Thomas (and john /) Ragsdale in Perry County. She may be the
daughter of Thomas therefore making her John's niece. Stanley knew
that she was some kind of direct kin.
Another, "maybe someday."