At the end of last year, I hired a researcher at the Mitchell Research Center in Hillsdale, Michigan to investigate some of the records they have available and that I wouldn't be able to get at for another year. The thought of not being able to move on my two gals (Lucia Cahoon Drake and her mother-in-law Catherine Whaley Drake) was making me crazy.
What I was looking for:
An obituary for Lucia. She was the first school teacher in Hillsdale and is mentioned in the Hillsdale consortium published by the county. she had some pretty well respected and prominent children. Surely someone would say something about her somewhere.
I also wanted the obits for John Stout Drake, Amos Stout Drake, Catherine Whaley Drake and Allison Royce Drake.
To back track: Lucia died in 1871. She is buried next to John Stout Drake and has one side of his 4 sided tombstone. She is identified as the wife of John Stout Drake. Buried with her is their son, Johnie C Drake, who died a few months earlier. There is the official death record that states she died in Hillsdale County and that she was married.
But Lucia is no where to be found in the 1870 United States Federal Census. John Stout Drake is listed and a woman named Elenor who is listed under John Stout Drake, along with the children. On that 4 sided tombstone previously mention, Elenor is on one side of it.
Anyways, there was no obituary for Lucia Cahoon Drake.
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