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Note: No document can be found,
which shows a middle initial
for Jane (Barnhouse) Dragoo,
the wife of Ewell ("Uel") Dragoo.
Their daughter Jane however, has been
found with a middle initial of "M".
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Jane's headstone reads:
"Jane B." ("B" for "Barnhouse").
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Jane is the daughter of
Henry Barnhouse (about 1775-about 1851),
and his first wife
Anna Maria Baker (about 1775-about 1828),
of Hampshire County Virginia, and (later),
of Monongalia County Virginia.
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Note: Henry Barnhouse was born about
1775 in Hampshire County Virginia,
and he died about 1851-1855 in Jonesboro,
Grant County Indiana.
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Hampshire County Virginia Deed Records:
On April 19, 1802, Henry Barnhouse
purchased 246 acres in Allegany Mountains,
on the West...
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Note: No document can be found,
which shows a middle initial
for Jane (Barnhouse) Dragoo,
the wife of Ewell ("Uel") Dragoo.
Their daughter Jane however, has been
found with a middle initial of "M".
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Jane's headstone reads:
"Jane B." ("B" for "Barnhouse").
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Jane is the daughter of
Henry Barnhouse (about 1775-about 1851),
and his first wife
Anna Maria Baker (about 1775-about 1828),
of Hampshire County Virginia, and (later),
of Monongalia County Virginia.
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Note: Henry Barnhouse was born about
1775 in Hampshire County Virginia,
and he died about 1851-1855 in Jonesboro,
Grant County Indiana.
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Hampshire County Virginia Deed Records:
On April 19, 1802, Henry Barnhouse
purchased 246 acres in Allegany Mountains,
on the West side of Maple Swamp.
(Deed Book 13, page 127).
In 1805, Henry Barnhouse purchased 100
acres for $183.oo, on New Creek,
adjoining John Baker.
(Deed Book 14, page 315).
On Aug. 15, 1809, Henry Barnhouse
purchased 90 acres on New Creek.
(Deed Book 16, page 233).
About 1809 to 1811, Henry and Anna
Barnhouse moved from Hampshire Co. VA
to Monongalia Co. VA (with members of
the Baker family).
On Feb. 16, 1811, Henry and Anna Barnhouse
(of Monongalia Co. VA), SOLD 110 acres &
90 acres, in Hampshire Co. VA for $500.oo.
(Deed Book 16, page 585).
On March 23, 1825, there was a deed of
conveyance from William Ice
to Henry Barnhouse.
In 1845, Henry Barnhouse and his second
wife Matilda Yost, SOLD 156.5 acres on
the waters of Buffalo Creek, in Moody
Hollow, Marion County (formerly
Monongalia County) Virginia
[near the Dragoo family].
In the 1850 census, Henry Barnhouse
is living in Union township,
Grant County Indiana, with his second
wife Matilda, and ten of the
children he had with Matilda.
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The nine children of Henry Barnhouse
and his first wife Anna Maria Baker are:
Female, Male, Female, Samuel,
Andrew, Catherine, Elizabeth,
Maria, and Jane Barnhouse. Jane was
the youngest of the nine children.
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Note: PLEASE, do NOT transfer this
memorial to other web sites.
Thanks, Nancy (Letcher) Heib.
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Note: We have never found a document
which shows a "middle initial" for
Jane, only a middle initial of "M"
for her daughter Jane M. (Dragoo) Wilds.
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Jane was born ("about" July 29th), 1813
in Monongalia County Virginia.
This area is "now" part of Marion
County "West" Virginia.
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Jane was married on Nov. 20, 1833,
in Monongalia County Virginia,
to Ewell (nickname "Uel") Dragoo,
the son of Jacob Dragoo and
his wife Isabella Jones
(per their marriage certificate).
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Ewell and Jane came to "McCoy's
Creek" in the "Territory of Michigan"
in 1835 (with their son John Irving
Dragoo), following Ewell's parents
and his siblings, who came in 1834.
"McCoy's Creek" later became known
as Buchanan, Berrien Co. Michigan.
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Ewell's parents Jacob and Isabella
Dragoo both died in 1838, only four
years after they arrived in [Buchanan],
Berrien Co. Michigan. Ewell and Jane,
along with Ewell's siblings then
returned to Monongalia Co. VA because
the lands that they were living on were
chosen as "seminary lands" (also
known as "University Lands"), for the
benifit of the "University of Michigan".
The price put on the lands was too high,
and they had to give them up,
and they moved back to Virginia.
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A few years later Ewell, Jane,
and Ewell's siblings, "returned"
once again to [Buchanan], Michigan.
Ewell and Jane and their children
(now with infant son Liberty),
returned to [Buchanan], Michigan in
1844 (or in 1845 per an article on
their son Tucker).
They possibly came back to [Buchanan],
Berrien County Michigan with
Jane's brother Samuel Barnhouse,
Samuel's wife Nancy A. (Upton)
Barnhouse and their children.
(Samuel was born Dec. 9, 1801 in
Hampshire County Virginia).
Samuel Barnhouse's son William
Harrison Barnhouse (an officer in
the Civil War), later married
Ewell's niece, Isabel Dragoo.
(Note: William Harrison Barnhouse
and Isabel Dragoo were "both" first
cousins of Ewell and Jane's son
Liberty U. Dragoo).
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The 1860 plat map of Buchanan Twp.
Berrien County Michigan shows Ewell
and Jane owning a farm in Sections
13 and 14 of Buchanan Township,
North of Buchanan, Michigan, along
the West side of the St. Joseph
River (near the Islands).
Jane and Ewell's siblings and
children lived near them.
Note: Ewell's brother John Fleming
Dragoo Sr. lived next to Ewell, and
John also purchased two of the Islands
in the St. Joseph River, on the North
side of Buchanan, Michigan,
from the U.S. Government.
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Jane's brother Samuel Barnhouse
lived directly across the St. Joseph
River, from Jane and her husband
Ewell, in Section 13 of Niles Twp.
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Ewell Dragoo and his wife
Jane Barnhouse had eight children,
three born in Monongalia Co. VA.,
and five born in Buchanan, Berrien
County Michigan:
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1. John Irving Dragoo.
b. June of 1834, in Monongalia Co. VA.
m. #1. Louisa Hunter, Sept. 13, 1857
in Buchanan Twp., Berrien Co. MI.
Louisa was born about 1840 in Michigan.
Louisa was the daughter of Thomas
Jefferson Hunter and Anna Nye.
Note: Deed records of Buchanan Township,
Berrien County Michigan
(Book # 4, 1859 - 1865), show that John
Irving and his wife Louisa had owned
Lot # 122 (in town), and also land in
Section 10 and in Section 16.
m. #2. Mary Elizabeth Swanger,
about 1865 (probably in Michigan).
Mary was the daughter of Michael
Swanger and his wife Elizabeth Forbes.
Their last residence was in Gobles,
Pine Grove Twp., Van Buren Co. MI.
d. 1912
Buried: Earl Cemetery, in Kendel
(near Gobles), Pine Grove Township,
Van Buren County Michigan.
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2. Jane M. Dragoo.
b. Feb. 12, 1835(?), in VA or MI.
(also found census and death records
which show, 1835, 1836, 1838, and 1840).
m. William H. Wilds/Wiles.
Note: Spelled as "Wilds" on marriage
record, and on Jane's death certificate.
(Found all these spellings:
Wild, Wilde, Wilds, Wile, and Wiles),
on Jan. 1, 1860 in Buchanan, Michigan.
In the 1860 census, they are living in
Buchanan, Berrien Co. Michigan next
door to Janes's brother John Irving
Dragoo and his first wife Louisa, and
two doors from Jane's parents Ewell
(Uel) Dragoo and his wife Jane.
In the 1870 census they were living
in Greenwood, Vernon Co. Wisconsin,
with Viola age 5, and Ida age 2
(next to Hezekiah Wiles Sr. and
his wife Mary).
In the 1880 census Jane is living
with the family of her sister Mary,
and Mary's husband Samuel Evens,
in Dayton, Newaygo County Michigan,
as a widow, with her children: Viola
(who married Charles Monroe Jewell
and is buried in the Jewell cemetery),
Ida (who married D. E. Brown), Lodema
(who married Mr. Rice), and Emma
(who died single in 1903, age 27).
d. Jan. 15, 1904, in the Village
of Freemont, Newaygo Co. Michigan.
Jane died at the age of 68 years,
11 months, and 3 days.
(She is listed as "Jane M. Wilds"
on her death certificate).
Buried: Evens cemetery, in Fremont,
Newaygo County Michigan (near her
sisters, Sophia, Mary Grace, and
Isabel). Her death certificate states
that she was born in Virginia, but
some census records state that
Jane was born in Michigan.
See her death certificate at:
www.seekingmichigan.org
No headstone can be found for Jane.
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3. Tucker Steele Dragoo (sometimes
mistakenly listed as "Lucker").
b. July 9, 1842, in Monongalia Co. VA.
He came with his parents to Berrien Co.
MI when 3 years of age and lived there
24 years. In the spring of 1869, he
came to Newaygo Co. MI and bought 80 acres
of wild land in Dayton township.
m. Sarah A. Kirkendall, Jan. 22, 1865
in Buchanan, Berrien County Michigan.
They had 3 children: Adelbert J.,
Lawrence Vincent, and Ida Myrtle.
d. Jan. 30, 1916 in Dayton Twp.,
Newaygo Co. MI of influenza, age 73.
Buried: Maple Grove Cemetery in
Fremont, Newaygo Co. Michigan.
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4. Liberty U. Dragoo.
b. Nov. 20, 1844 in Monongalia Co. VA.
(per his Civil War military records).
m. Aug. of 1864 in Niles, Berrien Co.
Michigan (per his military records),
to Celestia Ann Hunniker, the daughter
of Francis "Frank" Hunniker Sr. and
his wife Julia Ann Frame.
Liberty served in the Civil War, in
the First Michigan Light Artillery,
Battery E.
d. Aug. 6, 1919 (while visiting a friend),
in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co. Michigan,
of angina pectoris,
age 74 years, 8 months and 16 days.
(At the time of his death, Liberty was
living with his son in St. Joseph, MI).
Buried: Oak Ridge Cemetery in
Buchanan, Berrien Co. Michigan
(Section A, Lot # 64).
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5. Emery J. Dragoo.
b. March 11, 1847, in Buchanan, MI
m. Dec. 10, 1871 in Lake Township,
Berrien County Michigan, to
Lucy Ann Starr (1850 - 1937).
He was a fruit farmer in Section 34
of Lincoln Twp., near Stevensville,
Berrien Co. MI., and he also lived
in Baroda, Berrien County Michigan.
Children:
(1.) Eddie Dragoo b. 1875 in Berrien Co.
d. 1879 (4 years of age). Eddie is
also buried in Ruggles Cemetery.
(2.) Mary Dragoo, b. July 29, 1877 in
Lake Twp., Berrien County Michigan.
Mary married Eugene Wittmer.
Emery died April 16, 1914 in
Baroda, Berrien County Michigan, of
endocarditis, age 67 years, 1 m, 15 d.
Buried: Ruggles Cemetery in
Baroda, Berrien Co. Michigan
(In "old" Section, Row (letter) I).
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6. Sophia Anna Dragoo.
b. June 5, 1849, in
Buchanan, Berrien Co. Michigan.
m. # 1. George W. Simmons Jr.
July 2, 1868 in
Niles, Berrien Co. Michigan.
(This was a double ring ceremony,
with her sister Mary).
They later lived in Newaygo Co. MI.,
near some of Sophia's siblings.
m. # 2. Monroe D. Cole (about 1899)
(possibly in Newaygo Co. MI).
d. July 30, 1924 in Newaygo Co. MI
Buried: Evens Cemetery in
Fremont, Newaygo Co. Michigan.
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7. Mary Grace "May" Dragoo.
b. 1853, in Buchanan, Berrien Co. MI
m. Samuel L. Evens, July 2, 1868
in Niles, Berrien Co. Michigan.
They later lived in Newaygo Co. MI.
d. 1896 in Newaygo Co. Michigan.
Buried: Evens Cemetery in
Fremont, Newaygo Co. Michigan.
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8. Isabel ("Belle") G. Dragoo.
b. 1857, in Buchanan, Berrien Co. MI.
m. She was married as "Belle" Dragoo,
to Adelbert Faught, on April 11, 1877
in Mattawan, Van Buren County Michigan.
(He usually went by "A." Faught).
In the 1880 census, A. Faught (age 27),
and his wife Isabell (age 22), were
living in Dayton, Newaygo County
Michigan (near her brother Tucker
Dragoo, and her sisters), with no
children.
d. 1891 in Newaygo County Michigan.
Buried: Evens Cemetery in
Fremont, Newaygo County Michigan.
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Note: There is another marriage record
of a "Bell" Dragoo, age 17(?), born in
Buchanan, Michigan, who was married to
Curtis Simmons, age 19, born in Huron
County Ohio. (Perhaps a relative of
her brother-in-law George Simmons Jr.?)
They were married on Sept. 24, 1873,
in St. Joseph, Berrien County Michigan.
Note: "Bell" would have actually been
only about age 16 at this time. Could
this marriage have been annulled?
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Note: As adults, six of Ewell
and Jane's eight children moved
from Buchanan, Berrien Co. MI, up
to Dayton, in Dayton Twp. Newaygo
County Michigan, near Fremont.
Emery J. Dragoo stayed in Baroda
and Stevensville, in Berrien Co. MI,
and Liberty U. Dragoo stayed in
Buchanan Twp., Berrien Co. Michigan.
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Jane died Sept. 29, 1868 in
Buchanan Twp. Berrien Co. MI.
Her headstone reads as follows:
JANE B. [for "Barnhouse"]
Wife of
UEL DRAGOO
DIED
Sept. 29, 1868
AGED
55 yrs. & 2 mos.
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Note: This memorial was
researched and written,
by Nancy (Letcher) Heib.
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Headstone photos 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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Jane's brother Samuel Barnhouse and
his wife Nancy A.(Upton) Barnhouse
are also buried in this cemetery,
along with their son
William Harrison Barnhouse
[a veteran of the Civil War], and
two of William's children (twins),
Nellie A. Barnhouse and
Samuel (Sammy) Newton Barnhouse.
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See the memorials for one line
of Jane's family on this web site:
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Brother, Samuel Barnhouse.
Nephew, William Harrison Barnhouse
(a Civil War veteran).
Husband, Ewell ("Uel") Dragoo.
Son, Liberty U. Dragoo.
Granddaughter,
Cleta "Cleo" (Dragoo) Upham.
Great, Granddaughter,
Cecile Gay (Upham) Bliss.
Great, Great, Granddaughter,
Thelma Celestia (Bliss) Letcher.
(ALL have lived in Buchanan, Michigan).
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Note: Ewell ("Uel") and Jane Dragoo
are my Gt., Gt., Great, Grandparents.
Nancy (Letcher) Heib.
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