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tom children ui vkl tkw returned the scenes of hit child-keod twti, to i tie in the midst of the homes of the 1 friend* of his rooth, nod especially to he , near his stricken, bereft, nod once greatly afBkied tether, end other Bauch lorsd j kindred. Thf chiidrfp he hrongh* with him were two end isympartifwty, end he end they, for about fiO'^rear*. Heed with hie hr other in-lew, end with hie ffciher The net of 1812 prevented him. far years, from obuiaing paeawmsoa of other two childree; finally, howeeee. tbuee be brought with him roomed the two that had remained with their mother.In 1815 “Billy braguc married again,1 nd raised another family of children. He remained in the ' llonongahola Country’’until 1821, when ho remored to Perr?* • * .. township. Licking count?, Ohio, where he ' died nearly thirty years ago. Un. 0|-bom, and Mr*. Woicutt, two daughters I i.rt in henry township; Prior, hie eon, re- imoved to North western Ohio; Jacob, another eon, went to Illinois, end the«kblt;? Inel* lived with en«the? daughter !*in Marion count?, Weet Virginia.“Bill? Dragoo” never wholly abandoned his balf-civilised babiif or mode of life, bat cootinood until hie death, to spend most of his time in bunting, trapping and fishing. How varied lbe scenes witnessed by this captured lad, this half I Ddian,half ciriliaed demises of the wildernrse, this white dweller, for twenty-four rears, among the tawnoy trihm of the Weed The pioneer, the hunter, the trapper, the angler, the earl?-time victimised explorer and tourist of Licking, how eventful his life!“Ball Dragoo was a quiet, peaceable, inoffensive man, and was greatly esteemed for hie man? excel lent qnalitiee, as well as for 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
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