Austin, Scovill, Drake and Hughes

Allison Royce Drake marries Jane Myers in June 1882 in Hillsdale.  On His marriage license he lists himself as a farmer.              ***N...

So 1871 proved to be a rough year at the Drake Farm. Bird is 14 years old, Allison is 12 and Jane is 10.  John Stout Drake manages to wait...

Our Allison was 12 years old the summer his baby brother, Johnny, died on 31 August 1871.  How involved is a young man with a new baby so mu...

I'm still trying to figure out who the Elinor is listed with the John Stout Drake family in the 1870 US Census.  She is listed right und...

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...

I hate dead ends.  Some folks who study genealogy call them "Brick Walls."  But that seems a little too optimistic.  The phrase im...

With John C Drake's death date in hand, I went back to the FamilySearch website - again.  Lo and behold, I found his death record.  Name...

I hate it when I start obsessing.  Going over and over and round and round.  I can't seem to let go of Lucia Cahoon Drake, wife of John ...

I was listening to a lecture not too long ago from one of the gals over at Ancestry.com.  She was talking about getting stuck and some of th...

You've got to have patience when you are gleaning information from a census.  One little piece of wrong information can send you so far ...

Anna R Drake was the first daughter born to John Stout Drake and Lucia Cahoon Drake.  A copy of her death certificate states that she was bo...

While under the family group sheets that I've checked out of John Stout Drake and Lucia Cahoon, there are 11 children listed.  There is ...

As I continue to work the family group sheet for John Stout Drake and Lucia Cahoon, I find myself in a rush to get down every thing I'm ...

This is what I thought I knew about my line of the Drakes.  We stick together.  We don't move away from each other.  We always married i...

Too many unanswered questions and not enough resources.  I feel that all it would take would be a couple of days at the Hillsdale Library.  ...

John Stout Drake and Lucia Cahoon Drake are buried in the Drake/Baker Cemetery in Hillsdale, Michigan. It is listed as an abandoned cemetery...

John Stout Drake: Here is what I know: John Stout Drake was born 24 Oct 1824, in Lyons, Wayne County, New York.  He was the son of Am...

It's hard enough keeping track of relatives who behave like normal people.  But when they start showing up in places they have no busine...