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Daniel Stokes Bray (family called him Daniel Jr.) was the Circuit Clerk and Recorder for Hot Spring Co in 1912. He was elected Sheriff of Hot Springs County in 1918 and took office in Jan.1919. He was known for his Tough On Moonshiner's Policy. He married Viola Harper and they had only one daughter named Evelyn who was born in 1911. He wrote poetry about WWII, the Depression, and his lovely daughter Evelyn. Those poems were published in a booklet of which the family still has a copy.

"many of these poems, printed on cards, have been mailed free to boys in the service, and to chaplains in the army camps." from forward


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Fireman/1c Dan Reagan was Killed in Action on December 7, 1941, during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was stationed aboard the USS Oklahoma BB37.
Last Rank
Fireman
Last Duty Station
1941-1941, USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
Service Years
- 1941

http://arklahomatoday.com/scott-county-man-met-his-fate-on-the-uss-oklahoma-p2077-206.htm :

In 1922 in Desoto, County, Louisiana, a second son was born to Houston Regan and his wife Bobbi and by the 1930 census, the Reagan family had moved to Shelby County, Texas.
Sometime in late 1931 the Reagan family moved to the remote Scott County community of Forester, where the Caddo River Lumber Company was running the largest sawmill operation in the state. Houston Reagan was listed on both 1920 Louisiana and 1930 Texas census records as a “lumber grader” under the employment heading and moved to Arkansas in that capacity, working for sawmill owner T.W. Rosborough.
Daniel Edward Reagan was typical of the youth in the lumber camp, which grew to a town of over 1800 residents and had rows and rows of green-painted pine bungalows, each surrounded by a picket fence with gates providing homes for the workers of the operation.
Forester had a theater, skating rink, drug store, a town baseball team with a covered stadium, Chevrolet dealership, grocery store, school, church, boarding house, community hall, post office, company offices for the sawmill, machine shops and a train depot and at one time was larger than the county seat at Waldron. The sawmill, when working 24-hour shifts, had the capability of producing more than 60,000 board feet of lumber from the ample supply of timber from the surrounding Ouachita Mountains.
Dan Reagan lived and thrived in the community from the age of ten until he joined the United States Navy in 1939 at the tender age of seventeen. A strapping , handsome young man who made all the girls “swoon” according to Forester resident and teacher Aimee DeFoor Galloway, was a favorite of young and old alike throughout the close knit community.
Reagan completed basic training in Norfolk, Virginia later than year and was assigned to duty on the USS Oklahoma.
Commissioned in 1916, the Oklahoma served in World War I as a member of Battalion Division 6, protecting Allied convoys on their way across the Atlantic. After years of spending time in the Pacific and the Scouting Fleets, the Oklahoma was modernized from 1927 to 1929. She rescued American citizens and refugees from the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and after returning to the West coast in August of that year, she spent the rest of her life in the Pacific.
It was that modernized and active ship to which fireman 1st class Dan Reagan was assigned in 1940 and on December 6 of that year, the mighty ship was based at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian islands for patrols and exercises.
One year and one day later the USS Oklahoma was one of the ships that went down to a watery grave from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and on that day, Dan Reagan of Scott County became one of fourteen Scott County “boys” that gave their life in service to this country in World War II.
“We never did get a lot of details on his actual death,” said Houston Reagan II, a half brother to Dan. “We know he went down with the ship and we think his remains may have been buried in a mass grave at the Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery at Oahu.”
“They never really actually identified his remains, but he was classified as missing in action, and it’s pretty likely that he was among the unidentified that were buried at the Punchbowl,” said Reagan II, who was born on November 27, 1941, just ten days before the sneak attack by the Japanese Imperial Air Force
The USS Oklahoma was moored in Battleship Row on December, 7 1941, when the Japanese attacked at 7:55 a.m. local time. Outboard alongside Maryland, the Oklahoma took three torpedo hits almost immediately after the first Japanese bombs fell.
As she began to capsize, two more torpedoes struck home, and her men were strafed as they abandoned ship. Within 12 minutes after the attack began, she had rolled over until halted by her masts touching bottom, her starboard side above water, and a part of her keel clear.
Quickly recovering from the initial shock of surprise, the Americans fought back vigorously with antiaircraft fire. Many of the USS Oklahoma crew remained in the fight, clambering aboard the USS Maryland to help serve her anti-aircraft batteries.
A total of 429 officers and enlisted men from the Oklahoma had been killed or were missing when the bombing and strafing subsided.
Devastation of the airfields was so quick and thorough that only a few American planes were able to participate in the counterattack. The Japanese were successful in accomplishing their principal mission, which was to cripple the Pacific Fleet.
They sunk three battleships, caused another to capsize, and severely damaged the other four.
All together the Japanese sank or severely damaged 18 ships, including eight battleships, three light cruisers, and three destroyers.
On the airfields the Japanese destroyed 161 American planes and seriously damaged 102 others.
The Navy and Marine Corps suffered a total of 2,896 casualties of which 2,117 were deaths and 779 wounded . The Army lost 228 killed or died of wounds, 113 seriously wounded and 346 slightly wounded.
In addition, at least 57 civilians were killed and nearly as many seriously injured.
On December 8, 1941, within less than an hour after a stirring, six-minute address by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in which he declared the attack as “ a day that will live in infamy”, Congress voted, with only one member dissenting, that a state of war existed between the United States and Japan, and empowered the President to wage war with all the resources of the country.
Four days after Pearl Harbor, December 11, 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.
Congress, this time without a dissenting vote, immediately recognized the existence of a state of war with Germany and Italy, and also rescinded an article of the Selective Service Act prohibiting the use of American armed forces beyond the Western Hemisphere.
World War II was officially on.
Because of the massive numbers of casualties involved, there will probably be no way to ever learn the individual fate of Dan Reagan but according to an action report from Commander Jessie L. Kenworthy Jr. filed a week later, it’s likely that Reagan may have died in the initial attack since his work station would have been deep in the bowels of the great battleship.
According to Kenworthy “throughout the short period of the attack preceding the capsizing of the Oklahoma, the ship was subjected to torpedo fire from a large number of enemy planes approaching from the direction of Merry Point.
The ship was further subjected to strafing attacks, and two flights of six each high altitude bombers approaching from the direction of the harbor entrance dropped their bombs from around 10 to 12,000 feet, which fell astern and clear of the overturned Oklahoma.
The exact number of torpedoes that struck the ship is uncertain, but has been variously estimated from five to seven at points from about frame 50 to frame 115 port.
No bombs are known to have struck on board for a certainty.”
Aimee Defoor Galloway, who was in the ninth grade when Reagan died, said the entire community of Forester was saddened by the news of the sacrifice Dan Reagan made for his country but was also proud of his contribution to the war effort.
During the early period of World War II the Purple Heart was awarded both for wounds received in action against the enemy and for meritorious performance of duty.
For his ultimate sacrifice, Reagan was named a Purple Heart winner posthumously in 1942 , one of just a handful of Scott County men to be so honored among the thousands with the award.
Reagan is remembered with his name etched into the Scott County War Memorial on the old courthouse lawn, and his name is also among those on a memorial wall at the Punchbowl in Oahu, but the loss of a Scott County native was extremely personal for a number of Forester residents at the time
Galloway, now 83, said that she and the rest of the school girls learned two or three weeks after Reagan’s death that Scott County had lost their first military casualty in WWII and the news spread like wildfire throughout the community of Forester and Scott County as well.
The Reagan family received a telegram on December 21, 1941 of Dan’s death and the local newspaper, the Advance Reporter, reported the news in the December 25 edition.
“He was five years older than me, but like all the girls, I was struck on him and we all thought he was just the best looking thing,” said Galloway. “We were all really sad when he learned he had been killed.”