Though the Jordan burial records place the couple Benjamin Drake (died 1854 at age 75) and Abba Drake (died 1843 at age 59) at Eastern Cemetery, no vital records of their deaths are found, and no listings for them are found in the census, directories or newspapers of the 1840s and 1850s. Jordan notes that they were buried in the "Drake-Sturdevant tomb" but that specific tomb is no longer identifiable among the 96 tombs at the cemetery, likely because the families sold it to another family later in the century and those who had been interred therein moved to another cemetery for final burial.
Though the Jordan burial records place the couple Benjamin Drake (died 1854 at age 75) and Abba Drake (died 1843 at age 59) at Eastern Cemetery, no vital records of their deaths are found, and no listings for them are found in the census, directories or newspapers of the 1840s and 1850s. Jordan notes that they were buried in the "Drake-Sturdevant tomb" but that specific tomb is no longer identifiable among the 96 tombs at the cemetery, likely because the families sold it to another family later in the century and those who had been interred therein moved to another cemetery for final burial.
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