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Peter is the son of Jacob Dragoo
and his wife Isabella Jones, of
Monongalia County Virginia, and (later),
of Buchanan, Berrien County Michigan.
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Note: PLEASE, do NOT transfer this
memorial to other web sites.
Thanks, Nancy (Letcher) Heib.
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Peter was born in Monongalia Co. VA.,
near Barrackville (West of Fairmont).
This area later became part of
Marion County "West" Virginia.
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Peter "first" came from Monongalia Co.
Virginia to Buchanan, Berrien Co. MI
with his parents and siblings in 1834.
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Peter was married on April 27, 1848,
in Niles, Berrien County Michigan,
to Mrs. Anna Ingleright
(maiden name "Weaver"),
formerly the wife of Jacob Ingleright.
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When Peter and Anna were married,
Anna already had...
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Peter is the son of Jacob Dragoo
and his wife Isabella Jones, of
Monongalia County Virginia, and (later),
of Buchanan, Berrien County Michigan.
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Note: PLEASE, do NOT transfer this
memorial to other web sites.
Thanks, Nancy (Letcher) Heib.
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Peter was born in Monongalia Co. VA.,
near Barrackville (West of Fairmont).
This area later became part of
Marion County "West" Virginia.
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Peter "first" came from Monongalia Co.
Virginia to Buchanan, Berrien Co. MI
with his parents and siblings in 1834.
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Peter was married on April 27, 1848,
in Niles, Berrien County Michigan,
to Mrs. Anna Ingleright
(maiden name "Weaver"),
formerly the wife of Jacob Ingleright.
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When Peter and Anna were married,
Anna already had (the following)
three children by
her former husband Jacob Ingleright,
whom she had married on May 17, 1836:
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1. John W. Ingleright (1839-1870),
m. Martha Ann Van Patton.
Buried: Oak Grove Cemetery.
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2. Mary C. Ingleright (1843-1923),
m. Hiram E. Storick.
Buried: Oak Grove Cemetery.
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3. William Ingleright (1845-1879).
Buried: Oak Grove Cemetery.
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Peter died on Nov. 19, 1848, at the
age of 26 years, 8 months and 7 days
(only 6 months and 23 days after they
were married).
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The probate record (will)
for Peter Dragoo is on file
in Berrien County Michigan,
in Probate file # 92.
His will lists his possessions as:
80 acres in Buchanan township,
described as "the West half,
of the S.- W. quarter of
Section 15, Town [township] seven,
South of Range 18 West",
1 mare, 1 wagon, 1 double harness,
1 plow, 1 gun, 1 harrow,
and 1 lot of carpenter tools.
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Peter and Anna had a daughter
named Lodema Dragoo, who was born
Feb. 10, 1849, about 3 months
"after" Peter's death.
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Lodema was raised by her mother
Anna, and Anna's third husband
Wilkerson Colvin, whom Anna married
on Jan. 1, 1851.
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In 1861, Peter's brother John Fleming
Dragoo Sr. left some land to Peter's
daughter Lodema in his will.
The land is described as "the
West half of the South-West quarter
of Section fifteen, in Township Seven,
South of Range Eighteen West", in
Buchanan township, Berrien County Michigan
(possibly some of the land John Dragoo Sr.
had purchased in 1847, with the verbal
agreement that it was to be owned
equally with his brother Peter Dragoo).
Peter then died in 1848.
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The 1871 "Berrien County Directory
and History", on page 276, lists:
Dragoo, Lodema, land owner, S.- W.
Sec. 15, Buchanan township.
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In 1873, Lodema Dragoo entered Saint
Mary's Academy [College] in South Bend,
Indiana and graduated with high honors
on June 23, 1875. (St. Mary's is
a "sister school" to Notre Dame).
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In 1877 Lodema Dragoo was working as
a school teacher in Buchanan, Michigan
(per article published on Aug. 14, 1877).
In 1880 she was working as the school
Principal at the Laurel School in
South Bend, St. Joseph Co. Indiana
(per: "History of St. Joseph County
Indiana", page 870).
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Oak Ridge Cemetery deed records
in Buchanan, Berrien Co. Michigan,
show that
Lodema Dragoo paid for a lot there,
on June 14, 1879, in Section 20.
It apparently was re-sold, as others
(non relatives), are buried there now.
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An article regarding the marriage of
Richard A. DeMont's daughter Addie,
to Howard Ewalt [Sr.], in South Bend,
Indiana on Dec. 14, 1882, lists Miss
Lodema Dragoo as one of the guests.
(They possibly knew each other as young
girls, back when they both lived near
Berrien Springs, Michigan).
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1883.
Note: There is a record of a lawsuit
that went to the Michigan Supreme Court,
in 1883, titled: "Dragoo v. Dragoo
[Vol. 50, Mich. page 573]".
It was filed by Lodema Dragoo,
against her Uncle
John F. Dragoo Sr.'s widow
Barbara A. Dragoo.
It involves 3 parsels of land, about 140
acres, purchased on 1847, in the name
of John F. Dragoo Sr., with a verbal
agreement that it was to be owned
equally with his brother Peter Dragoo.
Peter Dragoo then died in 1848.
(After Peter's daughter Lodema
was grown, could she have wanted a
bigger share, or did she not feel that
she received all of the land due her?)
In 1883,
the judges verdict was that:
"Latches cannot be imputed to
infants during their minority".
[Dragoo v. Dragoo 50 Mich. 573]
[15 NW 910 (1883), page 40].
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Google:
"Michigan Reports Advance Sheets",
Vol. 50, page 57
(by the Michigan Suprene Court).
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About 1884 ("after" the law suit was
settled), John F. Dragoo Sr.'s widow
Barbara, and several of their adult
children left Buchanan, Michigan,
and moved to Clay County Nebraska.
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(Barbara Dragoo's granddaughter Nancy
Ann Barnhouse, and her husband
John Michael Meffert [Sr.] also
moved about this same time, from
Buchanan, Michigan, to Lowell,
near Ocala, Marion County Florida).
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On Sept. 23, 1884 ("after" the lawsuit
was settled), Lodema became the
second wife of Theodore Gilbert Beaver,
an attorney, and the Mayor of Niles,
Michigan. They were married in the
rectory of the [Trinity] Episcopal Church
in Niles, Berrien County Michigan.
(Could she have hired him for the lawsuit?)
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An article in the "South Bend Weekly
Tribune" newspaper, on Sat.
Sept. 27, 1884, page 8, column 2 states:
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Miss Lodema Dragoo, for several years a
very popular teacher in our schools,
was married Tuesday at Niles, Michigan.
The groom is Mr. Theodore G. Beaver,
a leading attorney at Niles, and mayor
of the city. The ceremony was preformed
in the evening at the Episcopal rectory,
by Rev. C. C. Tate. Immediately following
it, the bride and groom repaired to their
own residence and settled down to the
enjoyment of a married life which their
many friends here hope may never be
marred by a single sorrow.
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Another article on their marriage
ceremony was published in the
"St. Joseph Valley (Weekly) Register",
in South Bend, Indiana, on
Wed. Oct. 1, 1884, page 7, column 1.
It reads:
Hymeneal.
The nupials of Mr. Theodore G. Beaver
and Miss Lodema Dragoo were celebrated
on Tuesday evening, at the rectory of
the Episcopal church at Niles,
Rev. C. C. Tate officiating.
Miss Dragoo was formerly a teacher
in the public schools of this city,
and Mr. Beaver is a prominent member
of the bar at Niles.
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About 1893, Lodema joined a
religious sect known as the
"New and Later House of Israel",
and as "The Flying Roll" (also, "The
Flying Rollers"), which had their
headquarters in Detroit, MI, and she
was working as a missionary, and a
street-preacher (without Theodore).
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Google: "New and Later House of Israel,
Detroit, Michigan".
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This religious society was founded
in England. Their main congregation
was later located on Hamlin Avenue,
in Detroit, Michigan, and headed by
Michael Keyfor Mills, known to his
followers as Prince Michael. After
Prince Michael was released from
prison, he moved the sect across
the Detroit River, into Canada.
He later moved it to Gillingham, Kent
England, where he later died in 1922.
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Some of his previous followers,
Benjamin Purnell and his second wife
Mary (Stallard) Purnell, who were members
of Prince Michael's colony in Detroit,
MI from about 1891 to 1895, later founded
the "House of David" in 1903 (later
known as "Mary's City of David"), located
in Benton Harbor, Berrien County Michigan.
[Google: "House of David Commune,
Benton Harbor, Michigan" on Wikipedia].
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An article published in the
"Buchanan Record" newspaper,
in Buchanan, Michigan, on
March 22, 1894, states:
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Mrs. Beaver of Niles, better known
here as Lodema Dragoo, accompanied
by a young lady named Brown, arrived
in this place Friday on a missionary
tour for the religious sect known as
the "Flying Roll" [Flying Rollers].
They have traveled on foot from
Detroit, without money, or clothing
other then what they wear, and are
engaged in spreading abroad the
tenents of the peculiar religion,
using the methods of the Salvation
Army, of street preaching. They were
not allowed to talk in Niles [MI].
The head of the church of Flying
Rollers, known as Prince Michael
[Michael Keyfor Mills],
is serving a term in Jackson prison
for illicit treatment of a young
Canadian girl who was induced into
membership of the flock of which
he was a leader. Mrs. Beaver spoke
in the Christian church Saturday
evening and in the church of the
Larger Hope, Sunday evening. Thus
far, we learn of no convert being
secured. She, with her companion,
went to Berrien Springs [MI], from
this place.
[Note: Google "Flying Rollers sect"].
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Theodore G. Beaver divorced Lodema
on Feb. 7, 1895 in Berrien County MI,
saying that she had deserted him two
years previous.
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1903-1905.
There is a record of Lodema Beaver
being committed to stand trial in
Canada for distributing and
circulating certain obscene printed
religious material
(defending "Prince Michael" of
the "Flying Rollers").
It reads "in part":
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Canadian Criminal Cases.
Court of Appeals for Ontario.
Vol. 9, page 415.
KING V. BEAVER
Lodema Beaver, who has been committed
for trial to the common goal of the
county of Essex and is now in custody
therein stands charged before Charles
Robert Horne, Esquire, county court
judge of the said county of Sandwich,
the 27th day of Feb. 1904 (she having
concented to be tried by this court,
without a jury), for that, the said
Lodema Beaver at the city of Windsor
in the county of Essex on the 24th
day of Dec. 1903, did distribute and
circulate certain obscene printed
matter tending to corupt morals.
She was an intelligent woman of
mature years, and was a member of the
sect known as "The Flying Rollers",
or "Deciples of Prince Michael".
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Toronto, Jan. 25, 1905:
The prisioner was indicted under
sec. 179, for distributing certain
obscene printed matter, tending
to corrupt morals.
Argued on Nov. 24, 1904.
Decided on Jan. 25, 1905.
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Google:
"The Ontario Law Reports:
Cases Determined in the Court of
Appeal, Vol. IX", page 418.
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Theodore later died on Sept. 14, 1906.
(See obituary for Theodore G. Beaver
in the "Niles Daily Star" newspaper
on Sept. 15, 1906, page one).
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The 1911 census of England and Wales,
states:
Lodema Beaver, Age 49,
U. S. America Resident.
[Living in] Medway,
Gillingham, [county of] Kent
[in S.- E. England].
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In an England directory, named the
"1930 Kelly's Directory", page 1061,
listed under "shop keepers", is
listed: Mrs. Lodema Beaver, who
resides at 418 Canterbury Street,
Gillingham [in the county of Kent].
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There is a death record in England
(for Jan., Feb., and March, 1945) -
"Lodema Beaver, born abt. 1850,
died (Jan. Feb. March) 1945,
age 95, in Bedford,
Bedfordshire, England".
(Volume 36, page 403).
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After Peter's death in 1848,
Peter's wife Anna, was later
married (for the third time), to
Wilkerson Colvin on Jan. 1, 1851,
and had 2 more known children:
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1. Samuel Weaver Colvin
(Oct. 21, 1851 - Aug. 29, 1930).
Buried: Rose Hill Cemetery.
(See Samuel's memorial on this web site).
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2. Fanny Colvin
(March 1, 1852 - May 8, 1852).
(Died at 2 months of age).
Buried Oak Grove Cemetery
(next to her mother Anna).
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Note: Wilkerson Colvin purchased a land
patent from the U.S. government in
Section 3 of Buchanan Twp. in 1839
(next to his brother Absalom Colvin).
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Peter is buried here in the Virginian's
Burying Ground, near his parents
and three of his siblings.
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Peter shares a headstone with
his parents, and his sister
Christena (Dragoo) Hines.
Click on the photo of his headstone
for an enlargement, and a caption.
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Headstone photos, courtesy
of Spencer Miller.
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Anna and 4 of her children are buried
in the Oak Grove Cemetery (formerly
known as the Storick cemetery),
on Snow Road, West of Berrien Springs,
Berrien County Michigan.
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For information on the Colvin family,
see the memorial for Peter's wife
Anna (Weaver-Ingleright-Dragoo) Colvin.
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Also see information on the Colvin
family (submitted by Nancy Heib),
on the Berrien County Michigan
Gen-web site, listed in their "family
histories" section, under "Colvin Family".
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