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Ridge Haven Notes
“Early Dragoo Family History” contains brief biographies of:
Peter and Margaret McCafferty Dragoo and their son Frederick, who married Martha Angel; William and Temperance Dickerson Dragoo and their descendants, including Benjamin “Ben” and his wife Sarah Draper Dragoo (Ben was a prominent Texas Ranger, credited with rescuing Cynthia Ann Parker); Orloff Field and Mary Swearingin Dragoo (South Dakota Pioneers known for their 1910 Sod House); John and Elizabeth Straight Dragoo (their West Virginia home was the birthplace of William “Indian Billy” Dragoo); Mary Dragoo, who first married John Joliffe (Quakers who attended the Hopewell Meeting House) and later married John Steed; and Belteshazzar “Belt I” (twin brother of Mary Dragoo) and his wife Martha Butler Dragoo (Belteshazzar was honored with a monument erected by the DAR as a Revolutionary soldier and the founding pioneer of Brown County, Ohio).
Peter and Margaret McCafferty Dragoo and their son Frederick, who married Martha Angel; William and Temperance Dickerson Dragoo and their descendants, including Benjamin “Ben” and his wife Sarah Draper Dragoo (Ben was a prominent Texas Ranger, credited with rescuing Cynthia Ann Parker); Orloff Field and Mary Swearingin Dragoo (South Dakota Pioneers known for their 1910 Sod House); John and Elizabeth Straight Dragoo (their West Virginia home was the birthplace of William “Indian Billy” Dragoo); Mary Dragoo, who first married John Joliffe (Quakers who attended the Hopewell Meeting House) and later married John Steed; and Belteshazzar “Belt I” (twin brother of Mary Dragoo) and his wife Martha Butler Dragoo (Belteshazzar was honored with a monument erected by the DAR as a Revolutionary soldier and the founding pioneer of Brown County, Ohio).