Hancock County OhArchives Biographies.....Drake, Jeremiah (Jr.) 1848 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   JEREMIAH DRAKE, JR., farmer, P. 0. Mount Blanchard, was born May 15, 1848, in
Southampton County, Va. His father, Jeremiah Drake, Sr., was born in Southampton
County, Va., October 15, 1804, of English descent; married, January 5, 1830,
Miss Priscilla Williams, a native of North Carolina. They lived in Sussex
County. Va., from 1853 to 1860, then came to Madison Township, this county, and
finally settled in Delaware Township, this county, in 1862. To them were born
the following named children: Benjamin, residing in Marion County, Ohio; John W.
and William Allen (they were soldiers in the One Hundred and Thirty-third
Regiment Ohio National Guards, and died at New Creek, Va.), Henry (deceased).
Eliza (Mrs. Priscilla Osborne), Mrs. Temperance Eldert and Jeremiah, Jr. Our
subject came to this county with his parents when twelve years of age. June 8,
1871, he married Miss Tamsen R. Harris, and to them was born one son, who died
in infancy. They have adopted and reared in their family Wilbert L., son of
William Warner, of this county. Since their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Drake have
lived one year in Morrow County, and five years in Marion County, Ohio. They
purchased their present farm in Delaware Townhsip, this county, in 1883. Mr.
Drake devotes a great deal of attention to buying and shipping live-stock. He is
a Democrat in politics, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.

Additional Comments:
Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Delaware Township




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