Thomas Irvin Drake and Catharine Wharton

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Husband Thomas Irvin Drake ¹

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           Born: 7 Sep 1827 - Drake's Ferry, Wayne Twp, Mifflin Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1863 1
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         Father: James Drake (1787-1844) 1 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Postlethwaite (1790-1854) 1 2

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       Marriage: 1853 1

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Wife Catharine Wharton ¹

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           Born: 6 Sep 1834 1
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         Father: James Wharton, Esq. (      -      ) 1
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Children

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1 M D. Sterrett Drake ³

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           Born: 6 Sep 1854 3
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         Spouse: Elizabeth Rahm (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 21 May 1878 4

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2 F Mary E. Drake ⁴

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           Born: 1855 4
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         Spouse: Samuel Gailey (      -      ) 4

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3 M James W. Drake ⁴

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           Born: 1857 4
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           Died: in infancy
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 M Frank I. Drake ⁴

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           Born: 1863 4
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         Spouse: Bella Schaffer (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Irvin Drake

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After receiving a good common school education, he began life on his father's farm, where he spent his boyhood. At the age of twenty-one he enlisted in the United States service under Captain Caldwell with a company of Wayne guards, and took an active part in the Mexican war of 1848; while there he contracted lung trouble, was discharged, and returned home in very poor health.
He married and they began housekeeping on the homestead farm, residing there two years. They bought the farm of Robert Corbett in Wayne township, [Mifflin County?] residing there until his death. As Mr. Drake's health was so impaired during his war service as to unfit him for work on the farm, he took no part in farming, but turned his attention to fruit growing and gardening He was passionately fond of music and a sweet singer, and was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Drake was a Republican, and filled the offices of road supervisor, tax collector and school director of his township.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 50.

2 Raymond Martin Bell, The Bell Family of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania (Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1941), Pg 64.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 49.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 51.