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Otis Oscar "Ode" DRAGOO

Otis Oscar "Ode" DRAGOO

Male 1874 - 1968  (93 years)


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  • Name Otis Oscar "Ode" DRAGOO
    Birth 20 Dec 1874  Jackson Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    • Birth date given in his death record as 20 Dec 1873, but in the 1900 Census as Dec 1874, while age 4 in the 1880 Census puts it in about 1876 and age 32 in 1910 puts it in about 1878. But age 23 in his March 1898 marriage record puts it in about 1874/75 and age 37 in his Oct 1913 marriage record puts it in about 1875/76. The date on his headstone is 20 Dec 1872.
    Gender Male
    Census 1880  Ravenswood, Jackson Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1898  Sandyville, Jackson Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Census 1900  Ravenswood District, Jackson Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1910  Duval District, Lincoln Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation farmer  [3, 4, 5] 
    Residence Griffithsville, Lincoln Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    Residence 1913  Amy (Yawkey), Lincoln Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Death 6 Dec 1968  South Charleston, Kanawha Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 7, 8] 
    Burial Nelson Cemetery, near Griffithsville, Lincoln Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 9] 
    Person ID I139896  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2025

    Father Elymas W. (Amos) DRAGOO,   b. 15 Jul 1843, Marion Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Nov 1908, Sandyville, Jackson Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
    Mother Dora PERRILL,   b. Feb 1856, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Mar 1935, Jackson Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 79 years)
    Family ID F62296  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Olivia Elizabeth "Gertrude" BLAKE,   b. 21 Jul 1872, Sandyville, Jackson Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Dec 1958, South Charleston, Kanawha Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
    Marriage 13 Mar 1898  Jackson Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 5] 
    • at Guy Blake's
    Divorce Y  [10, 11]
    Notes 
    • 1900 Census, Jackson County, WV (Ravenswood District), enumerated on June 16, 1900:
      Ode Dragoo, 25, b. Dec 1874 in WVa (both parents b. WVa), farmer, married 2 yrs; wife Olevia, 26, b. Jul 1873 in WVa (father b. Pa, mother b. WVa, married 2 yrs, mother of 2 children (1 still living).

      1910 Census, Lincoln County, WV (Duval District), enumerated on May 14, 1910:
      Ode Dragoo, 32, farmer, married 13 yrs (1st marriage); wife Gertrude, 34, occupation private boarding house, married 13 yrs (2nd marriage), mother of 4 children (3 still living); son Cecil, 8; dau Waneda, 6; dau Mildred, 3; boarder Owen Boster, 29, b. Ohio, single, teamster with oil team; boarder Den Hill, 24, b. WVa, single, teamster with oil team.

      Otis and Olivia/Gertrude divorced soon after this census. Both remarried in 1913, Gertrude to Owen Boster who was boarding with the family in 1910.

      1920 Census, Kanawha County (City of Dunbar), enumerated on January 7, 1920 on John Street:
      Owen A. Boster, 38, b. Ohio, foreman for gas company; wife Gertrude, 42, b. WVa; son Cecil, 19, b. WVa, single, laborer in soap factory; dau Wannitia, 16, b. WVa, laborer in soap factory; dau Mildred, 11, b. WVa; boarder Walter Davis, 24, b. Indiana, single, blower in glass factory; boarder Earl Brunson, 33, b. Indiana, single, blower in glass factory; boarder Elsa Knotts, 30, b. Indiana, single; boarder Elmer Foster, 30, b. Indiana, single, blower in glass factory.

      Owen Boster and Gertrude divorced sometime before the 1930 Census. In the 1930, 1940 and 1950 censuses, she was listed as head of household Gertrude Boster, divorced. She continued to operate a boarding house.
    Children 
    +1. Cecil Maxwell DRAGOO,   b. 24 Jan 1901, Sandyville, Jackson Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aug 1986 (Age 85 years)
    >2. Juanita Mae DRAGOO,   b. 20 Jul 1904, Jackson Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Feb 1986, Cocoa Beach, Brevard Co, FL Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
    Documents
    139896_Oad-Oscar-Dragoo_Olivia-E-Blake_MarriageRecord_JacksonCoWV_13Mar1898.jpg    		139896_Oad-Oscar-Dragoo_Olivia-E-Blake_MarriageRecord_JacksonCoWV_13Mar1898.jpg
    Family ID F62279  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Hattie Marie LOVEJOY,   b. 24 Jan 1885, Lincoln Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Mar 1948 (Age 63 years)
    Marriage 26 Oct 1913  Lincoln Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Documents
    139896_Odis-O-Dragoo__Hattie-Lovejoy_MarriageRecord_26Oct1913.jpg    		139896_Odis-O-Dragoo__Hattie-Lovejoy_MarriageRecord_26Oct1913.jpg
    Family ID F62295  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    139896_DRAGOO_Otis-Oscar_DeathCertificate_6Dec1968.jpg    		139896_DRAGOO_Otis-Oscar_DeathCertificate_6Dec1968.jpg

  • Sources 
    1. [S2214] 1900 Census, Jackson County, WV.

    2. [S2315] Jackson County Marriage Records, Ripley, WV, https://dach-image-proxy.digital-relativity.workers.dev/?film=567220&frame=00475.

    3. [S14] Obituary.

    4. [S1853] WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate, (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx), https://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=1992196&ImageNumber=448.

    5. [S2526] 1910 Census, Lincoln County, WV.

    6. [S2429] Lincoln County Marriage Records, Hamlin, WV, http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11271414&Type=Marriage.

    7. [S1707] Obituary - Hospital, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36799634/otis-oscar-dragoo.

    8. [S5] Headstone.

    9. [S934] Findagrave.com.

    10. [S1967] Record of wife's remarriage.

    11. [S1966] Record of husband's remarriage.