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fear children ul with them returned to |1 , the scenes of hie child-hood vwn, to ecft-I tie in the wudst of the homes of the ' friend* of his roath, md c«|imuIIt to he : near his stricken, bereft, nod once greatly I afflicted tether, and other much loved kindred. Thy children he hronght with him were two end I am i my art i rely, •»lt;* he and they, for ahowt IW^fwara, Heod with hia brother in-law, and with hie father Tha oat of 1812 psweamod ham, far aume jean. from obtaiaing peemmioe of tha other two children; finally, however. thuae he brought with him rejoined the two that had remained with their mother.la 1815 “Billy braguc * married again,1 fid raieed an other family of children He remaiaad ia tha ' Uoooogaheb Country* until 1828, when ha removed to Perry township, Licking count v, Ohio, where he ‘ died nearly thirty rears ago. Mre. Osborn. and Mrs, Woioutt, two daughter* i Lea m terry township; Friar, hia aoe, re- j mo*ed to Northwestern Ohio Jacob, another eon, went to Iliiwdia, and the :,. 4 I Ij widow f«*ely lived with snnshrr daughter 1w •in Marion county, Want Virginia.“Billy Dragoo”neeor wholly abasdowod hia haK-deiliaed habit* or mode of life, but coo tinned until hia death, to spend , most of his time in banting, trapping and baking. How varied the hocms wi mean ad by this captured lad, this half 1 ndina,haff-j civilised demiaea of the wildaratm, thia white dweller, for twenty-four years, among the tawey trihm of the Wad The pioneer, the hunter, the trapper, the angler, the early-4ime victimised explorer i and tourist of Licking, how eventful his life!‘ Bill Dragoo was a quiet, peaceable, inoffensive man, and was greatly esteemed for his many excellent qeaimm, as well as far the Christian virtues that he prao-
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Granville Licking Pioneers Minutes and Isaac Smucker Scrapbooks
Granville, Ohio, US
Wed, Sep 01, 1926
Page 299
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