John Drake, Warren County, Ohio
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JOHN DRAKE

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Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 1 December 2004

Sources:
The History of Warren County Ohio
Part V. Biographical Sketches
Turtlecreek Township
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)
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Page 735

JOHN DRAKE, farmer; P.O. Lebanon; was born in Turtle Creek Township on the farm he now occupies Aug 10, 1805; his great-grandfather, Samuel Drake, emigrated from England to America in 1676; his grandfather’s name was Joseph; his father, Lewis Drake, was born in New Jersey June 19, 1764, and, during the war of 1812, served as one of the minutemen. He moved from New Jersey to Pennsylvania, where he married Miss Mary Russell, a native of Delaware, of Welsh descent. In 1800, he emigrated to Ohio with his family of four children, three girls and one boy, and located on the land now occupied by our subject. During his residence in Ohio, eight more children, five boys and three girls, were born to him; his son Samuel was a cavalryman in the war of 1812; of his twelve children, only two boys and two girls now survive. Our subject was reared on the farm and received his education in the schools of his native township; he was married on Christmas Day (Dec 25, 1832) to Miss Sarah Evans, a daughter of Thomas and Ann (Griffith) Evans, natives of Pennsylvania. This marriage was blessed with issue as follows: Lewis who is married and farming in Warren County; Anna, the wife of Joseph Mull, of Warren County; Frank, who is married and farming in Warren County; Thomas, a merchant of Lebanon; John, a liveryman of Lebanon, and Isaac, who is married and now lives on the home farm. Mr. Drake is a republican, and, for six years, served his county as Director of the Infirmary; he is a member of the Baptist Church, in which his wife also held a membership until her death, Aug. 20, 1880. Mr. Drake now has in his possession a walking-cane that his great-grandfather brought from England at the time of his emigration. On his farm, in Turtle Creek Township, there is a Lombardy poplar tree, two and a half feet in diameter, that has grown from a walking staff his father used in walking from Mad River in Montgomery County. Upon his arrival home, one of his sons stuck the staff in a marshy spot near the house without any particular reason, and in the years that followed it grew into the beautiful tree of to-day.


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