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Isabella is the daughter of
Fleming Jones and his wife
Christianna ("Christena") Kern,
of Monongalia County Virginia.
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Isabella's siblings are:
Michael Kern Jones
(he married Jemima Upton, the sister
of Nancy Upton, and he was also the
"bondsman" for the marriage of
Nancy Upton and Samuel Barnhouse,
who are also buried in this cemetery),
Elizabeth, Susannah,
John (he married Elizabeth Toothman),
Mariah, Hannah, and Christena Jones.
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Isabella is the "Granddaughter" of
Michael Kern Sr.
(abt. 1740 - July 10, 1833),
of Morgantown, Monongalia County
Virginia, and his first wife, Mrs.
Susannah Christena Weatherholt
(the widow of Capt. Johannes Jacob
Weatherholt, who was killed in an
Indian attack).
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Note:
Michael Kern Sr....
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Isabella is the daughter of
Fleming Jones and his wife
Christianna ("Christena") Kern,
of Monongalia County Virginia.
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Isabella's siblings are:
Michael Kern Jones
(he married Jemima Upton, the sister
of Nancy Upton, and he was also the
"bondsman" for the marriage of
Nancy Upton and Samuel Barnhouse,
who are also buried in this cemetery),
Elizabeth, Susannah,
John (he married Elizabeth Toothman),
Mariah, Hannah, and Christena Jones.
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Isabella is the "Granddaughter" of
Michael Kern Sr.
(abt. 1740 - July 10, 1833),
of Morgantown, Monongalia County
Virginia, and his first wife, Mrs.
Susannah Christena Weatherholt
(the widow of Capt. Johannes Jacob
Weatherholt, who was killed in an
Indian attack).
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Note:
Michael Kern Sr. and Susannah came
to Monongalia County Virginia by 1770
(per: "The Monongalia Story", Vol I,
page 177, Vol. II, pages 148 and 331,
and Vol. III, page 97).
Michael built a cabin in what is
now Morgantown, West Virginia, at
the mouth of Decker's Creek, on the
East side of the Monongahela River.
When the Dunmore War started in 1772, he
built a stockade Fort around his cabin.
"Kern's Fort" is now listed on the
"National Register of Historic Places".
"Kern's Fort" is also known as
"Michael Kern's Cabin", and as
"Kern's Stockade". It was the largest
fort in Virginia. It is located at
305 Dewey St. in Morgantown, W. VA.
The D.A.R. has placed a memorial
marker dedicated to him, at the
Fort (in the Greenmont Historic
District), in Morgantown, W. Virginia.
Michael also built the first grist
mill in Monongalia County Virginia,
about 1772. He donated land that
started the public school system,
and land on which the University of
Virginia is located. He built several
churches, including the original
Presbyterian Church in Morgantown, VA.
Google: "Michael Kern's Cabin,
Morgantown, West Virginia.", "OR"
"Some Interesting Kerns History,
Michael Kern Sr.".
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See the book titled:
"Michael Kerns Sr., The Forgotten
Hero of Monongalia County Virginia",
by Robert E. Karnes. Located in the
"Columbus Metropolitan Library", in
Columbus, Ohio. Also located at the
Heritage Center, in Charleston, West
Virginia, and in the library there.
Also possibly located at the "Bedford
County [VA] Museum and Historical Society".
(The will for Michael Kern Sr. is on
file at the Bedford Co. VA Court house).
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Note: PLEASE, do NOT transfer this
memorial to other web sites.
Thanks, Nancy (Letcher) Heib.
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Isabella was married on Nov. 15, 1810 to Jacob Dragoo in Monongalia Co. VA., by Rev. Joseph A. Shackelford. She was listed as "Isabella" on their marriage record, and as "Isabell" on their headstone.
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They had eight children, all born near Barrackville (West of Fairmont), in Monongalia County Virginia.
Note: This area later became part of Marion County, "West" Virginia.
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Note: Marion County was formed from Monongalia County in 1842, and West Vriginia became a state in 1863.
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1. Christianna ("Christena") Jane Dragoo. (Possibly named after Isabella's mother). b. March 7, 1811. m. John Hines Feb. 5, 1835 in Buchanan, Berrien Co. Michigan. They had a daughter, Catherine C. (Hines) Price (1836-1878) who is also buried in this cemetery. d. Aug. 1, 1837 in Buchanan, MI age 26. She was the first person known to be buried in this family cemetery.
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2. Susanna Dragoo. Note: She is listed as "Susannah" on their marriage certificate, and as "Susanna" in cemetery records. Possibly named after Isabella's grandmother. b. 1812 or 1813 (Dudley cemetery records say 1816). Note: Some descendants think Susanna and Ewell might have been twins. m. Enoch W. Dudley Sept. 6, 1834 in VA. Susanna and Enoch had seven children: Fleming, Anthelia (or Arthela), Amelia, Elias, William, Elizabeth and Mary D. Dudley. d. April 22, 1849 in Marion Co. VA. at the age of 33 years, 6 months and 9 days (per cemetery records). Buried: Dudley Cemetery, Fairmont, West Virginia (near Enoch and her sister Margaret). Note: Susanna was the only child of Jacob and Isabella Dragoo that did not move to Buchanan, MI with them.
All of Susanna's children were born in Virginia.
Note: Susanna's son Fleming Dudley (1835-1910) is buried in the Gilboa Cemetery in Barrackville, West Virginia with his wife Sarah Ann (Boggess) Dudley. Note: After Susanna died in 1849, her husband Enoch married her widowed sister, Mrs. Margaret (Dragoo) Knight, in Buchanan, Berrien Co. Michigan in 1855 (after Margaret's husband and her two children had died). Margaret then moved back to Virginia with Enoch to help him raise he and Susanna's children.
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3. Ewell (nickname "Uel") Dragoo. b. 1813. m. # 1. Jane Barnhouse Nov. 24, 1833 in VA., the daughter of Henry Barnhouse and his first wife Anna Maria Baker. d. Sept. 29, 1887, in Stevensville, (Lincoln Township), Berrien County Michigan. Buried in this cemetery.
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4. John Fleming Dragoo Sr. (Possibly named after his two grandfathers, John Dragoo and Fleming Jones). b. Nov. 4, 1817. m. Barbara Anne Level, at John Weaver's house, on Sept. 22, 1839 in Buchanan, MI., the daughter of Stephen and Barbara Anne Level. She is also the sister of Lucinda (Level) Tomlinson, who is also buried here. John F. Dragoo Sr. purchased two of the islands in the St. Joseph River, on the North side of Buchanan, Micigan from the U. S. Government. d. Nov. 9, 1861 Buchanan Twp. age 44. Buried in this cemetery.
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5. Peter Dragoo. b. March 12, 1822. m. Mrs. Anna Ingleright (maiden name"Weaver") April 27, 1848 in Niles, MI., the daughter of John Weaver. (At the time of their marriage, Anna had three children from her former husband Jacob Ingleright). Peter and Anna had a daughter, Lodema, who was born "after" Peter passed away. d. Nov. 19, 1848 in Buchanan, Berrien County Michigan, age 26. (He died only 6 months and 8 days after they were married). Buried in this cemetery. Note: Anna was later married to Wilkerson Colvin, and had two more children. See the memorial for Anna Colvin, of Michigan, on this web site.
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6. Dr. Michael Sylvester Dragoo. b. 1824, in VA. Michael Dragoo is listed in the 1850 census of Berrien County Michigan as a physician. (Possibly named after Isabella's grandfather). He is listed as "Dr. Dragoo" in "A Twentieth Century History of Berrien County Michigan, by Orville W. Coolidge, 1906" page 491, and also, in his published death notice in California in 1866). m. Mary C. Cathcart, the daughter of Robert C. Cathcart and his wife Polly Peck, on April 5, 1846 (at the residence of Polly Cathcart), in Buchanan, Berrien County Michigan, in the presence of William and Julius Cathcart (two of Mary's brothers). Mary's siblings were: William, Julius, and Thomas Cathcart. Mary's parents were buried in the very first "public" cemetery in McCoy's Creek (now known as Buchanan, MI.), now the site of a children's playground named Kathryn Park. Mary's father Robert C. Cathcart was born in 1794 and died in 1845, at the age of 51 years. Robert C. Cathcart was a Justice of the Peace. Mary's mother Polly Cathcart was born 1796 and died on March 9, 1848, at the age of 52. Michael and Mary had eight children, the first three born in Buchanan, Michigan, the rest born in California. Their eight children are: Neil Jorthy, Frank John, Jacob Robert ("Jake"), Michael Jacob, Mary ("May"), Susan Ann ("Susie"), Thomas, and John Authur Dragoo. After returning from a trip to California, during the Gold Rush (with his brother Ewell and others), Michael moved his family to Georgetown, El Dorado County California, and then to Contra Costa County California. In her later years, Mary lived with her youngest son John Arthur Dragoo and his family. He was the only one of their six sons to marry. Mary's family "then" called her by the nickname of "Ellen". His wife Mary C. (Cathcart) Dragoo was buried in 1896, in the Alamo Cemetery, in Danville, Contra Costa Co. California (in Block 38, Lot # 5).
Michael died on Feb. 25, 1866. Note: The "Sacramento Daily Union" newspaper, Volume 30, Number 4665, in Sacramento, California, published the following on March 7, 1866: "Died - Near Bruensvile, Contra Costa County [CA], Feb. 25th, Dr. M. J. [or M. S.] Dragoo, aged about 43 years".
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7. Margaret Maria Dragoo. b. Aug. 12, 1826 (Dudley cemetery records say 1824). m. #1. William Seymore Knight Oct. 8, 1843 in Buchanan, Berrien Co. Michigan. (William was born Jan. 19, 1820 and died Nov. 1, 1851). They had two children, Emma and Mary. Margaret lost her two children and her husband all within 1 & 1/2 years. Her two children are buried in this cemetery. m. #2. Enoch W. Dudley, on Oct. 21, 1855 in Buchanan, Berrien County Michigan (the former husband of her sister Susanna). (Marriage record states that Enoch was "of" Marion County Virginia). Note: Deed records for Buchanan Township, Berrien County MI (Book 4, 1859 -1865), show that Enoch and Margaret Dudley had at one time owned Lot # 9, in the Village of Buchanan. Margaret then moved back to Virginia to help Enoch raise he and Susanna's children. d. March 28, 1861 in Marion Co. VA., at the age of 37 years, 7 months and 16 days (per cemetery records). Note: Enoch died April 25, 1871 (per cemetery records). Buried: Dudley Cemetery, Fairmont, W. VA. near Enoch and her sister Susanna.
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8. Isabel Amelia Dragoo. b. July 28, 1828. m. Nimrod Connor Prickett, Dec. 1, 1849, the son of James Prickett and Lucinda Rice. They had nine children, seven of them born in Grant County, Indiana. They later moved to Minnesota, and then to Furnas County Nebraska. d. Jan. 12, 1906 in Arapahoe, Furnas County Nebraska. Buried: Garfield Cemetery, Arapahoe, Furnas County Nebraska.
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Jacob and Isabella moved their family from Monongalia Co. VA to a settlement named "McCoy's Creek" in the "Territory of Michigan" in 1834. This area is "now" known as Buchanan, Berrien County Michigan.
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It is written in the story of the Wallin family of Buchanan Township, that the children of the physician in Buchanan Township Dr. Charles Wallin, walked about a mile through the woods, with their neighbor children of the Dragoo and Cathcart families, in 1838, to a big log school taught by Angelina Bird. Later Miss Bird taught in the log house that the Wallins had lived in.
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Jacob and Isabella both died in 1838, only four years after their arrival in Michigan. They probably died from "ague" or "chills and fever", known today as malaria, during the terrible malaria epedemic in South-West Michigan in 1838. Isabella died at the age of 46 years, 3 months and [21 or 24] days.
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Note: This memorial was
researched and written,
by Nancy (Letcher) Heib.
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Isabella is buried in this Dragoo family cemetery known as the "Virginian's Burying Ground", with her husband Jacob and four of their children. Some of their grandchildren and great-grandchildren are also buried here.
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Note: For additional information on this cemetery and this Dragoo family, see:
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"The Virginian's Burying Ground, Buchanan, Berrien County Michigan and The Family of Jacob and Isabella Dragoo", compiled by Nancy (Letcher) Heib, located in the "Local History Room", of the Buchanan District Library, Buchanan, Michigan, and in the "Library of Michigan", in Lansing, Michigan (www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan)
A copy is also located in the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana (www.acpl.lib.in.us)
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Note: Photos of Jacob and Isabella's
headstone (taken in 2012), are courtesy
of Robert D. Brown, President,
and newsletter editor, of
"Friends of Oak Ridge Cemetery",
and courtesy of "Friends"
member Spencer Miller.
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Another photo of their headstone, is
courtesy of Mrs. Lois (Turner) Baum
(photo originally taken in 1981, and
sent to Lois, by David Savage).
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Note: See the memorials for one line
of Isabella's family on this web site:
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Husband, Jacob Dragoo.
Son, Ewell Dragoo.
Ewell's wife, Jane (Barnhouse) Dragoo.
Grandson, Liberty U. Dragoo.
Liberty's wife,
Celestia (Hunniker) Dragoo.
Great, Grandaughter,
Cleta "Cleo" (Dragoo) Upham.
Great, Great, Granddaughter,
Cecile (Upham) Bliss.
Gt., Gt., Great, Granddaughter,
Thelma (Bliss) Letcher.
(ALL of Buchanan, Michigan).
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Note: Jacob and Isabella Dragoo are my
Gt., Gt., Gt., Great, Grandparents.
Nancy (Letcher) Heib.
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