Daniel Dragoo Sr. is the son of Belteshazzar Dragoo Jr. (born 1784 in Springhill, Fayette Co. PA, and died in 1865 in Indiana), and his wife Rebecca Austin (1786-1860), who were married on Feb. 2, 1806, in Adams County Ohio.
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Note: PLEASE, do NOT trnsfer this
memorial to other web sites.
Thanks, Nancy (Letcher) Heib.
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Belteshazzar Dragoo Jr. purchased the land that the Dragoo family farm was located on, South of Franklin (and North of Edinburgh), in Johnson County Indiana, from the U.S. government in a land patent in 1825. This farm was later taken from his Great-grandson Albert Dragoo over 100 years later, by the U.S. government, to build a U. S. army camp named Camp Atterbury in 1942. (Google: "Camp Atterbury, Indiana").
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Note: See the memorial on this web site for Belteshazzar Dragoo Jr.'s cousin Jacob Dragoo, who settled in Buchanan, Berrien County Michigan in 1834.
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Daniel Dragoo Sr.'s grandfather, Belteshazzar Dragoo Sr., was the first permanent settler in Brown County Ohio in 1794. He built a log cabin on Eagle Creek, about 3 miles from where the town of Ripley is now located. A monument, on Scoffield Road, near Ripley, in Union Township, Brown County Ohio, was erected for him by the D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Revolution), to mark the site of his log cabin. He was also a soldier in the American Revolutionary War. For his service during the Revolutionary War, he received a land grant of 450 acres in the Virginia Military District land. He married Martha Hannah Butler and they had 12 children. They joined the shaker religion, and are buried in a shaker cemetery in unmarked graves, in Ohio.
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Daniel Dragoo [Sr.] married Abigail Poe, on Aug. 23, 1832, in Brown County Ohio. She is the daughter of Christopher Poe and his first wife Mary Hillman (and their only child). Abigail was born Jan. 15, 1816 in Ohio. (Note: After Abigail's mother Mary died in 1818, Cristopher Poe was married to Elizabeth Line, and they had 7 or 8 children). Abigail died Sept. 9, 1886 in Johnson County Indiana, at the age of 70 years, 7 months, and 25 days.
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Note: Daniel and Abigail Dragoo had a son named Daniel W. Dragoo [Jr.] (who died on Jan. 29, 1852, at 15 days old), and also a grandson named Daniel Dragoo (who died Dec. 29, 1863, at five years, 10 months, and 10 days old).
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Note: Two of Daniel and Abigail Dragoo's sons, John Nelson Dragoo, and Belteshazzar Dragoo III, served side-by-side in the Civil War, in Company F, of the 7th Indiana Infantry. Belteshazzar was killed in action on May 24, 1864. His brother John was by his side, when he died. Belteshazzar was buried on the South bank of the North Anna River.
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The Indiana State Library, in Indianapolis, Indiana, has in their "Manuscripts and Rare Book Collection", photo-copies of numerous letters which John Nelson Dragoo and Belteshazzar Dragoo III wrote home to their parents and siblings, during the Civil War.
This collection is titled:

ILS - John Dragoo,
S 374
1861-1929.
Three folders.
(Most of these letters are
located in folder one).
See: http://library.in.gov
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In the "Indiana Historical Society",
in downtown Indianapolis, IN are
journals which were written by a
fellow soldier in their Civil War
unit, named Billy Davis. These
journals have been typed up and
published in a book titled:
"Civil War Journal of Billy Davis"
(from Hopewell, Johnson Co. Indiana),
(E.506.5 7th D29,1989).
Assession # 1996.0716.
And also "Billy Davis Collection"
(SC 2383.BV 2680-2682).
Note: This journal has very little
information on John Nelson Dragoo
and his brother Belteshazzar Dragoo,
but it gives a lot of information on
the entire regiment, including their
locations and battles etc.
during the Civil War.
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The 12 known children of Daniel Dragoo Sr. and his wife Abigail Poe are:
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1. Samuel H. Dragoo. Born Dec. 10, 1833. Married Margaret M. Bills. He died on May 26, 1884. Buried Atterbury Cemetery.
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2. Belteshazzar ("Belt") S. Dragoo III (the 3rd). (Nicknamed "Belt" and "Belty"). He sent letters home to his family while he was in the Civil War, in which he signed his name as "B. S." Dragoo. Born Jan. 3, 1835, in Brown County Ohio. He married Amelia Henderson, on Sept. 27, 1854, in Johnson County Indiana. Belteshazzar Dragoo III served (with his brother John Nelson Dragoo), in Company F, of the 7th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was killed on May 25, 1864, at North Anna River, Virginia (per document from the Executive Department of Indiana Adjutant General's Office).
Belteshazzar and Amelia Dragoo had two children:
(1.) Sarah Jane Dragoo (1857-1927) who married Oscar Daily Branigan (and had two sons, Ralph and Clarence).
(2.) Louis Jackson Dragoo (1858-1910) who married Claudia V. Reese (from Missouri), on Sept. 13, 1884. [Louis and Claudia Dragoo then had eleven children, including a son named Authur Reese Dragoo (1894-1973), who married Nola E. Mullikin (1899-1990), on Jan. 1, 1920, and they had 3 children].
d. May 25, 1864,
at North Anna River, Virginia.
Re-Buried: Fredericksburg National
Cemetery, in Fredericksburg,
Fredericksburg City, Virginia
(Grave # 3825).
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3. John Nelson Dragoo. Born Feb. 2, 1838 (or 1837) in Johnson County Indiana. He served in the Civil War next to his brother Belteshazzar. m. # 1. (?) Lucy Frost. He married # 2. Harriet Bills, on July 12, 1866 in Johnson Co. IN. (Harriet is buried in the Prichard Cemetery). He died on April 2, 1882 in Johnson County Indiana. Buried Atterbury Cemetery G. (Row 1, Stone 1).
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4. Mary R. Dragoo. Born Aug. 27, 1840. Married Murphy Scrugham, on Sept. 27, 1856. Possible children: Abigail, Clara, Nannie, Henry, Durham, Belle, and Nettie Scrugham. Mary died on Feb. 22, 1874. Buried: Atterbury Cemetery.
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5. Christopher Fletcher Dragoo. Born Sept. 5, 1843. Married Susan Collier on Oct. 1, 1863. He died on Oct. 13, 1872. Buried in Atterbury Cemetery.
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6. Susan Amelia Dragoo. Born Dec. 8 (or 9), 1845 in Johnson Co. IN. Married Larkin DeHart, on Dec. 15, 1861. She died on July 2, 1912 in Johnson County Indiana. Buried: Nineveh Christian Church Cemetery.
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7. Sarah Dragoo. Born and died on Feb. 2, 1846. Buried Atterbury Cemetery.
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8. Elizabeth A. Dragoo. Born 1848. Died Aug. 27, 1861, at the age of 14 years, 4 months, and 17 days. Buried Atterbury Cemetery (Section 2, Row 2).
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9. Jane (or Hetty) Dragoo.
(Also found Betty Jane, Hetty Jane,
and Hetty Louisa Jane Dragoo).
Born May 24, 1849 in Johnson County IN.
Married Samuel DeHart, on Dec. 6, 1866.
Possible children: Orpha, Effie,
Edna E. ("Stella"), Jackson Franklin,
Alma Josephine, Laura Myrtle, and
Charles Bay DeHart.
d. ?
(Samuel is buried in Atterbury Cemetery).
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10. Daniel W. Dragoo [Jr.]. Born Jan. 14, 1852. Died Jan. 29, 1852, at the age of 15 days. Buried Atterbury Cemetery.
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11. Margaret C. Dragoo.
b. 1853, in Indiana.
m. John W. Tindel.
Children: George, Minnie, Korah,
Sylvester, and Abigail Tindel.
d. April 28, 1884, in Edinburgh,
Johnson County Indiana.
Buried: Atterbury Cemetery.
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12. Sylvester D. Puitt Dragoo (nicknamed "Puitt"). Born about 1855. Died March 6, 1879, at the age of 23 years, 5 months, and 18 days. Buried Atterbury Cemetery.
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The inscription on Daniel Dragoo Sr.'s headstone reads:
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DANIEL DRAGOO
DIED
AUG 1, 1873
AGED
64 Yr. and 8 M.
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Note: See the memorials for Daniel's
son and grandson, on this web site:
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Son Samuel H. Dragoo,
and grandson Albert Dragoo,
both of Nineveh township,
Johnson County Indiana.
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