DRAKE, Gideon

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Death of Gideon Drake.

Gideon Drake, the aged father of Wesley and Josiah Drake, of this city, died Friday evening at his home in Greensburg, from injuries he received in a fall March 14. The Greensburg New Era says:

Mr. Drake had been in very feeble health for some time, and since the fall he suddenly grew worse, but his death came rather unexpectedly to his folks.

Mr. Drake was born in Kentucky ninety-six years ago, and came to Rip­ley county, this state, in 1822, where he was married. He moved here with his family in 1860 and has ever since been a resident of this city. Mrs. Drake died about a year ago, and at the time of her death they were the oldest married couple living in the state, having lived together for seventy-one years. Both came from long-lived families, some of their brothers and sisters living past the century mark. The oldest child is Josiah Drake, of Franklin, who is seventy-two years old. The youngest child, Gideon Drake, who is in Oklahoma, is fifty-one.

Ten children are now living, four of whom, Joseph, John and Hiram Drake, and Mrs. O. C. Burns, live in this city. Four other children, Josiah and Wesley Drake, and Mrs. Flake and Mrs. Ballard live in Franklin and all were here to attend the funeral.

The funeral was held at the house Sunday at two o’clock. The sermon was preached by Rev. J. H. Duncan, by Mr. Drake’s request, and the body was bur­ied in South Park cemetery by the Masonic lodge, of which he has been a member for nearly thirty years. Mr. Drake was also a devoted Christian, having been a member of the Methodist church for eighty-one years.

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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, April 3, 1896
Volume XXXVI Number 38, page 1 column 3

PERSONAL AND LOCAL.

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Aaron Burgett, of Nineveh township while calling on the Democrat Tuesday to renew his subscription, called atten­tion to some errors in the notice of Gi­deon Drake’s death as taken from the Greensburg New Era last week. Mr. Drake first went to Ohio, Brown county, from Kentucky, and from that place came to Johnson county about 1827, settling on 40 acres of ground just east of Williamsburg. He afterwards sold this and went to Union township where he lived many years. He then moved to Greensburg. Mr. Bur­get [sic] was well acquainted with him and can relate many interesting remin­iscences of their early trials and ex­periences.

Link to Gideon Drake’s grave

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry