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Post by Hal Sherman on Apr 8, 2005 15:12:35 GMT -5
I have always been fascinated by the Indian captives stories. The Billy Dragoo story is one that happen here in the Ohio Country. The story is told quite well by a descendant on the following URL www.billydraggoo.20m.com/ Billy still had his ears slit in older age and still clung to a lot of the Indian ways. |
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Post by ronnie gunn on Apr 11, 2005 9:28:43 GMT -5
hal
that is a very interesting story of billie dragoo. i wonder what happened to the two indian daughters that he left behind?
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Post by richardlpangburn on Jan 5, 2006 7:31:13 GMT -5
Thanks for that link, Hal.
The daughters who stayed among the Indians seem to have retained the Dragoo surname and it was carried on among the Ottawa and descendants appear on the Ottawa census of 1883. I've long been interested in that narrative and am glad to see it online. Many of the other people mentioned had native connections. I published a couple of pages of Dragoo research myself long ago, giving credit to the Shinn Papers, Glenn D. Lough, Carl N. Thompson's HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF BROWN COUNTY, OHIO, and other references. Some of these Dragoos apparently settled on Wilson's Creek here in Kentucky.
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Post by kohlj on Apr 15, 2009 6:40:33 GMT -5
As a child, I heard this story from my mother and have past it on to my boys. Billy Dragoo was one of my great ....great grandfathers. My family is from Eastern Iowa. It is amazing to read it in more detail. Unfortunately, the story I heard was more of a a legend. I was told he became a Indian Chief as a white man and the tribe had moved to Oklahoma. It is exciting to hear that the word of God changed Billy's life.
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