Sussex-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Drake, Andrew J., 1906 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ ANDREW J. DRAKE (Special to The Times Dispatch) WAKEFIELD, VA., February 21. - Mr. Andrew J. Drake died yesterday evening at 8:30 o’clock at his home near this place. He was sixty-six years [sic; 62*] and ten days old. He was a Confederate veteran and a member of Burton’s Grove Christian Church. He leaves a wife. Andrew J. DRAKE, farmer, Confederate veteran, b. 10 Feb 1844*, Southampton Co., d. 20 Feb 1906, at home, near Wakefield, interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, "Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Feb. 22, 1906, p. 3 *Additional information: Wakefield list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt Birthdate from 1900 Census - Wakefield Dist., Sussex Co. - which gives Owns Free of mortgage Farm #127. Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/d620a1ob.txt