VAN BUREN COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES - Old Drake Cemetery
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		      OLD DRAKE CEMETERY
	           Van Buren County, Tennessee
		       October 19, 2003



>From McMinnville, take Highway 30 toward Spencer.  Cross the bridge
after 6.5 miles and the Van Buren County line.  Take another two miles
and on the left you will reach the McCoy Farm.  This land used to
belong to the Drake?s many years ago.  On his private property is the
Old Drake Cemetery.  It is located behind his house, amongst the barn
and trees.  This cemetery is almost lost.  Most of the graves have
been damaged and broken.  I do have digital pictures of this cemetery.

R. J. Head                   11-7-1824         3-4-1894
Elijah Drake, Sr.            11-17-1781         3-1856
Feba Drake                   4-13-1790       10-17-1849
      ?consort of Elijah Drake?
Jacob Drake                 1-18-1831        5-17-1849
Randolph R. Drake           7-4-1825         4-13-1848

These people are recorded to be buried in this cemetery also, but the
gravestones are missing:

Benjamin Drake            1832           1836
	(son of Elijah & Feba Drake)
Elijah Dock Drake         2-12-1818      9-15-1888
	(son of Elijah & Feba Drake)
Mary E. Drake              10-11-1813    1-1-1861
	(dau of Elijah & Feba Drake)
Elizabeth G. Drake     11-11-1816  9-20-1890
	(niece of Elijah & Feba Drake ? dau of Uriah Drake)



Transcribed by:

S.A. Drake
Marsha Brown Crone
Jenifer Crone Shaw  -  mrstwmagoo@frontiernet.net