Elizabeth Drake LAST NAME: Drake FIRST NAME: Elizabeth MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY:  BORN: Abt 1837 DIED: 31 Aug 1869 BURIED: 1 Sept 1869 ETHNICITY:  African American OCCUPATION:  Housewife BIRTH PLACE:  Missouri DEATH PLACE: Independence, Polk Co., Oregon NOTES:  1870 OR CENSUS - Alfred Drake, black, age 44, laborer, b. Kentucky, is enumerated with Elizabeth, age 33, black, b. Missouri, along with Joseph, age 14, black, b. Missouri,, William B. S., age 11, black, b. Misssouri, George D., age 5, black, b. Oregon, James A., age 3, black, b. Oregon, and Elizabeth, age 1, black, b. Oregon. [George and James Drake, ages 14 and 13, are enumerated within the household of Albert Bayless in 1880 Census - identified as nephews] NOTE - Salem Pioneer Cemetery Black Pioneer Omnibus dedicated by the Oregon Northwest Pioneers on 1 Feb 2007. OBITUARY:  Mrs. Drake, a colored woman, who resided above Independence, died last Tuesday. She leaves a husband and 5 children. Her remains were buried in the cemetery, south of Salem yesterday, the funeral being well attended by her friends in this place.  The Daily Oregon Unionist 2 Sept 1869 3:1 INSCRIPTION:  SOURCES:  DU 2 Sept 1869 3:1 1870 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., East Salem Pct., pg 49) CONTACTS:  LOT: 369 SPACE:  LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.173 LATITUDE: W 123° 02.731' IMAGES: