Newton Co., IN Bio

Newton County, Jefferson Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton, 
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

   WARREN T. DRAKE, farmer, was born March 20, 1842, in Hamilton County,
Ohio, and is a son of Theodore and Sarah (Williams) Drake, natives of 
Ohio, and now living in Kentland, the former aged sixty-eight, the
latter, fifty-nine; both are members of the Presbyterian Church.  They
have had eight children, seven of whom are living.  Mr. Drake is a 
Democrat, and came from Ohio in 1871.
   Warren attended Babbitt's Academy several terms, in addition to the
common school, and worked on the farm until his nineteenth year, when
he went, as teamster, to West Virginia and Kentucky, but came home 
dangerously sick in 1862.
   Afterwards he enlisted in September, 1862, in Company B, Seventh
Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Col. Gerrard.  Their first engagement 
was Dutton Hill, Kentucky, where they remained until the fall of 1863,
when they crossed to East Tennessee and captured the rebel forces at 
Cumberland Gap.  In this adventure he lost all his clothes and baggage,
and was never so frightened as at Rogersville, as, in imagination, he 
could see into Andersonville.  At Knoxville, during the siege, he lived
on parched corn for one week.  By order of Gen. Burnside, they killed
800 horses, in order to save the corn for the men.  After the siege was 
raised, they joined Sherman at Resaca, and took part in the Atlanta
campaign, when Sherman started for the sea and Schofield for Gen. Hood.
The regiment took part at Franklin and Nashville, where Hood's army was 
captured and almost annihilated, and were then ordered to join Sherman
at Goldsboro, North Carolina.  Mr. Drake served three years without 
being wounded, and was sick three months, but did not leave the command.
He was at the surrender of Joseph E. Johnston near Raleigh, and was 
mustered out at Nashville, through General Order 83, June 30, 1865.  Mr.
Drake is well satisfied with his army record, but not anxious to make 
another.
   December 14, 1865, he married Miss Mattie, daughter of Rev. Henry 
and Sarah Wright, of Cincinnati.  Miss Lizzie, a sister, was married to
Lieut. Joseph Hayden, of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, at the same time,
Rev. R.R. Herron officiating.  Mrs. Drake taught six years in Hamilton
County, Ohio and was First Assistant in the Cummingsville Graded School
for three years.  Her sister Lizzie had also taught four years. "When
the war was over," these ladies resigned their positions and took others,
"for better or worse," as soldiers' wives.
   Mr. and Mrs. Drake are the parents of three children--Frederick W.
Clara L and Anna E.  Mrs. Drake is a member of the Presbyterian Church,
and Mr. Drake is a Democrat and prosperous farmer.  They came to this
county in 1869, lived at Kentland three years, then moved to their 
present residence, three miles west of the town.  It then was wild land,
but is now a beautiful and improved home of 120 acres.


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