Obituary:
Newspaper unknown. Found in Bible of Harvey Parmellee and Arzina Drake. Transcription by Susan Hopkins
“Edwin B. Drake Dies From Heart Attack After Sweeping Walks
While cleaning the snow from the walk in front of his home on South Main St., here Sunday noon, Edwin B. Drake was stricken by a heart attack. He had just completed sweeping the walk and had stepped into the house where he collapsed. A neighbor passing the home, noticed the door open and that Mr. Drake’s hat had fallen on the floor. Upon going up to the house he was found to have fallen on the floor dead.
He was born Feb. 1, 1867 at Bedford, O., the son of Solomon and Sara [h added in ink] Drake. In 1898 he married Zeta Wyans, who died in 1943 (3 overwritten in ink with a 1) He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Walter Painter and Miss Mary J. Drake and one brother, Alonzo Drake all of Wooster.
He was a 32nd degree Mason, belonged to the local Masonic Lodge, was a charter member of the Eastern Star Lodge here. He was also a member of the Knights Templar, Findlay, and the consistory of Toledo. He belonged to the Church of Christ. [1947 added in ink above the word “held” in the next line.] A Masonic service was held at the residence Tuesday evening and funeral services at the residence 11 a.m. Wednesday, with Rev. W. S. Noble officiating. Burial was made in Maplewood cemetery.”
"Uncle Edwin's First Car
as told by Aunt Zetta
"He said that anyone who could drive a horse could drive a car. They got in and started off. They drove right across the next door neighbor's front yard, took down the white picket fence in the next yard and finally ended up against the watering trough downtown. His comment at that point was "any horse would have known better." "
[From Drake family files transcribed by Florence Painter Griffith in her Drake family scrapbooks.]
Newspaper unknown. Found in Bible of Harvey Parmellee and Arzina Drake. Transcription by Susan Hopkins
“Edwin B. Drake Dies From Heart Attack After Sweeping Walks
While cleaning the snow from the walk in front of his home on South Main St., here Sunday noon, Edwin B. Drake was stricken by a heart attack. He had just completed sweeping the walk and had stepped into the house where he collapsed. A neighbor passing the home, noticed the door open and that Mr. Drake’s hat had fallen on the floor. Upon going up to the house he was found to have fallen on the floor dead.
He was born Feb. 1, 1867 at Bedford, O., the son of Solomon and Sara [h added in ink] Drake. In 1898 he married Zeta Wyans, who died in 1943 (3 overwritten in ink with a 1) He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Walter Painter and Miss Mary J. Drake and one brother, Alonzo Drake all of Wooster.
He was a 32nd degree Mason, belonged to the local Masonic Lodge, was a charter member of the Eastern Star Lodge here. He was also a member of the Knights Templar, Findlay, and the consistory of Toledo. He belonged to the Church of Christ. [1947 added in ink above the word “held” in the next line.] A Masonic service was held at the residence Tuesday evening and funeral services at the residence 11 a.m. Wednesday, with Rev. W. S. Noble officiating. Burial was made in Maplewood cemetery.”
"Uncle Edwin's First Car
as told by Aunt Zetta
"He said that anyone who could drive a horse could drive a car. They got in and started off. They drove right across the next door neighbor's front yard, took down the white picket fence in the next yard and finally ended up against the watering trough downtown. His comment at that point was "any horse would have known better." "
[From Drake family files transcribed by Florence Painter Griffith in her Drake family scrapbooks.]
Obituary:
Newspaper unknown. Found in Bible of Harvey Parmellee and Arzina Drake. Transcription by Susan Hopkins
“Edwin B. Drake Dies From Heart Attack After Sweeping Walks
While cleaning the snow from the walk in front of his home on South Main St., here Sunday noon, Edwin B. Drake was stricken by a heart attack. He had just completed sweeping the walk and had stepped into the house where he collapsed. A neighbor passing the home, noticed the door open and that Mr. Drake’s hat had fallen on the floor. Upon going up to the house he was found to have fallen on the floor dead.
He was born Feb. 1, 1867 at Bedford, O., the son of Solomon and Sara [h added in ink] Drake. In 1898 he married Zeta Wyans, who died in 1943 (3 overwritten in ink with a 1) He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Walter Painter and Miss Mary J. Drake and one brother, Alonzo Drake all of Wooster.
He was a 32nd degree Mason, belonged to the local Masonic Lodge, was a charter member of the Eastern Star Lodge here. He was also a member of the Knights Templar, Findlay, and the consistory of Toledo. He belonged to the Church of Christ. [1947 added in ink above the word “held” in the next line.] A Masonic service was held at the residence Tuesday evening and funeral services at the residence 11 a.m. Wednesday, with Rev. W. S. Noble officiating. Burial was made in Maplewood cemetery.”
"Uncle Edwin's First Car
as told by Aunt Zetta
"He said that anyone who could drive a horse could drive a car. They got in and started off. They drove right across the next door neighbor's front yard, took down the white picket fence in the next yard and finally ended up against the watering trough downtown. His comment at that point was "any horse would have known better." "
[From Drake family files transcribed by Florence Painter Griffith in her Drake family scrapbooks.]
Newspaper unknown. Found in Bible of Harvey Parmellee and Arzina Drake. Transcription by Susan Hopkins
“Edwin B. Drake Dies From Heart Attack After Sweeping Walks
While cleaning the snow from the walk in front of his home on South Main St., here Sunday noon, Edwin B. Drake was stricken by a heart attack. He had just completed sweeping the walk and had stepped into the house where he collapsed. A neighbor passing the home, noticed the door open and that Mr. Drake’s hat had fallen on the floor. Upon going up to the house he was found to have fallen on the floor dead.
He was born Feb. 1, 1867 at Bedford, O., the son of Solomon and Sara [h added in ink] Drake. In 1898 he married Zeta Wyans, who died in 1943 (3 overwritten in ink with a 1) He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Walter Painter and Miss Mary J. Drake and one brother, Alonzo Drake all of Wooster.
He was a 32nd degree Mason, belonged to the local Masonic Lodge, was a charter member of the Eastern Star Lodge here. He was also a member of the Knights Templar, Findlay, and the consistory of Toledo. He belonged to the Church of Christ. [1947 added in ink above the word “held” in the next line.] A Masonic service was held at the residence Tuesday evening and funeral services at the residence 11 a.m. Wednesday, with Rev. W. S. Noble officiating. Burial was made in Maplewood cemetery.”
"Uncle Edwin's First Car
as told by Aunt Zetta
"He said that anyone who could drive a horse could drive a car. They got in and started off. They drove right across the next door neighbor's front yard, took down the white picket fence in the next yard and finally ended up against the watering trough downtown. His comment at that point was "any horse would have known better." "
[From Drake family files transcribed by Florence Painter Griffith in her Drake family scrapbooks.]
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