DRAKE CEMETERY, NEW HOPE, MADISON COUNTY, ALABAMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with the USGenWeb policy of providing free information on the Internet, this data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other gain. Copying of the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged. ALGenWeb File Manager - Lygia Dawkins Cutts ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Compiled and contributed January 2000 by Louise (Brockway) Thedford eagle98@pcsys.net This cemetery is located on Old Gurley Pike on the old John Calvin Drake, plantation. John Calvin owned a huge plantation for two miles on each side of Gurley Pike, west of New Hope, Alabama where the Drake Cemetery is presently located. His last request was to be buried with his slaves. They are buried behind the back fence in the field, according to Aunt Lea, his daughter and Dan C. Drake Sr. his grandson. They told me he paid $3,000.00 for a slave, the highest price ever paid in Madison Co. They also told me that he never broke up a family by selling off a member. He lost his land after the Civil War and several years later his son William Wallace bought the plot where his father and mother was buried and started burying his family there. (by Marvin Branum son of Lucy Drake Branum) Name Birth Death Drake, Elvy L. (Lee) ??/ ??/ 1977 ??/ ??/ 1948 }Double Drake, Alva L. ??/ ??/1880 ??/ ??/1958 Drake, Lou S. Dec. 17, 1900 May 4, 1989 }Double Drake, Ruben W. Feb. 19, 1901 May 29, 1969 Drake, Flossie Stone ??/ ??/ 1902 ??/ ??/ 1950 }Double Drake, John William ??/ ??/ 1898 ??/ ??/ 1954 Infant Dau. of R.W. & Hester Vann Dec. 28, 1917 Jan. 9, 1918 Baby Patricia Kathrene Faulk Sept. 2, 1941 Only one date Drake, Dan C. Sr. Oct. 16, 1887 Jan. 23, 1961 }Double Drake, Jennie H. (Hill) Mar. 19, 1888 May 22, 1964 Brockway, Arva Cecil March 31, 1908 May 16, 1962 "Married" June 24, 1945" } Double Brockway, Dimple Drake Nov. 24, 1919 July 24, 1998 Drake, Elonza Mitchell June 27, 1877 Feb. 20, 1965 "Wed: Dec. 30, 1918" } Double Drake, Christina Evans Jan. 12, 1898 May 30, 1953 Drake, Woodrow Eulece Dec. 3, 1919 Mar. 13, 1940 Drake, Charles S. July 20, 1885 Aug. 18, 1907 "Son of T. S. & Matilda Drake" Drake, Tyra Span ??/ ??/ 1842 ??/ ??/ 1916 Serg. Co. E Mead's Ala. Cav. Confederate States Army Woody, Matilda ??/ ??/ 1857 ??/ ??/ 1933 "Wife of Tyra S. Drake" Owens, Mary ??/ ??/ 1847 ??/ ??/ 1883 "Wife of Tyra S. Drake" Cobb, James D. Sr. Dec. 27, 1891 July 9, 1968 } Double Cobb, Mary Drake Feb. 22, 1889 Sept. 29, 1976 Drake, Clifton ??/ ??/ 1874 ??/ ??/ 1903 Drake, John Calvin Jan. 19, 1810 Feb. 25, 1876 Drake, Martha Vann May 7, 1815 ??/ ??/ 1864 (Wife of John Calvin Drake) Drake, Martha Cooper ??/ ??/ 1835 ??/ ??/ 1890 (Wife of John Calvin Drake) Drake, Willie W. Sep. 21, 1855 Feb. 26, 1917 (William Wallace Wood Drake) Drake, Margaret Susan Mar. 1, 1857 Jan. 7, 1887 "Wife of W. W. Drake" Drake Luria Beatrice Mar. 3, 1873 July 8, 1912 "Wife of W. W. Drake" Drake, Lela Florence May 10, 1883 Jan. 9, 1898 "Dau. Of W. W. & M. S. Drake" Drake, Wallace W. June 16, 1909 Sept 16, 1936 "Wallace W. Drake, who died saving Wesley C. Ray from suffocation Austin, Texas" "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" Branum, Robert Otia ??/ ??/ 1890 ??/ ??/ 1941 } Double Branum, Lucy Drake ??/ ??/ 1891 ??/ ??/ 1971 Drake, Claude S. Oct. 26, 1904 May 14, 1965 Henderson, Charles Thomas, Jr. June 2, 1929 June 2, 1929 Butler, Ann Dec. 5, 1935 Aug. 30, 1936 Butler, Elvy and Alva Feb. 28, 1930 Feb. 28, 1930 (Both names are on the same stone.)