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Note: N19 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=28945203 Created by: MHB Record added: Aug 11, 2008 Find A Grave Memorial# 28945203 "Sec. 171. Alonzo (Solomon). born Jan 21, 1805, at Bristol Vt.; died Feb 11, 1890,; married Oct. 8, 1829, Sarah Eudocia Parmelee, born February 29*, 1808, died March 12, 1879, daughter of Asaph and Hannah of Bristol. Lived in Bristol till about 1830, when he moved to Bedford, O. Children: i. Edwin Asaph, b. July 15, 1830, in Bristol, Vt.; d. July 23, 1853, in Bedford, O., unm. ii Sara Elvira, b. Jan. 12, 1833, in Monkton, Vt.; m. May 15, 1854, Dr. E. J. Clark. Children: 1. Nettie R., b. June 17, 1857; m. Oct. 16, 1882, William Wheeler. 2. Edwin A., b. March 15, 1864. 3. Mary J. b. Aug 7, 1870. Res. Willoughby, Lake Co., O. iii Sheldon Parmelee, b. Oct 22, 1837, in Monkton; d. Aug 31, 1839, in Bedfored, O. 384 iv Solomon Sheldon, b. April 10, 1842, in Bedford. v. Mary Josephine b. Oct. 18, 1844; d. Oct 23, 1848 vi Emma Rosephine, b. June 3, 1850: m. Oct 18 1874, Zenas J. Wheeler and had: 1. George, b. July 28, 1875, 2. Zenas Franklin, b. Jan 24, 1880. e. Robert Sanford, b. April 9, 1883. 4. William Chase, Jan. 13, 1888. Res. Defiance, O. " * 1808 turns out to have been a leap year, so Sarah Eudocia Parmelee could not have been born on February 29, despite what Louis Stoughton Drake and the Asaph and Hannah Hall Parmelee family register show. Likely it was remembered later that she was born on the last day of February of 1808. "A Bedford Pioneer The Life and Character of Alonzo Drake, Who was Laid Away for His Last Rest on Thursday - The Lighthouse of His Neighborhood. Alonzo Drake died in Bedford, Tuesday, February 11, at the ripe old age of eighty-five. He was born in Bristol, Vt., in 1805,apprenticed to the tanners"and shoemakers" trades at eighteen, was a journeyman at twenty, and partner at twenty-three, in which capacity he continued until in 1838, when he opened a shop for himself. In 1834, with one horse and a peddler's wagon and a few supplies of leather and shoes, he drove to Ohio, and such was his natural Yankee shrewdness that he arrived with more money than he had at starting. In 1836 he came again, passing through Cleveland, then a village of 1,500 inhabitants. Two years later he moved with his family in an emigrant wagon, and settled in a log cabin two miles south of Bedford. There he remained, and there he wrought out his life. Like all those who cut the forests and mellowed the now fertile farms of Ohio he was strong and persistent. His youth was surrounded by all the sternness and ruggedness of Puritanism. He often told how, when a boy, the children were not allowed to eat with their parents. "We sat in the corner and looked in the fire" he said. "After father and mother were through we might go and stand by the table and eat a bit." This as the rule until he was fifteen. After that he was allowed a seat at his father's table. A few weeks in the winter at the district school and six weeks at a select school was the limit of his education. At eighteen his father yielded to his entreaty to be allowed to learn a trade. From that age he fought for himself and he fought a good fight. Nothing honorable was menial to him. After settling in Bedford he wrought at his trade of a boot and shoemaker, and by indefatigable industry was able not only to pay for two days' work on the clearing with one of his own, but, better still, to keep his promises. Many a night did the light shine from the loft where he toiled until the small hours, in order that he might keep his word and finish his work, and in time his shop came to be called the lighthouse of the neighborhood. For more than fifty years Alonzo Drake was an active Christian, at first a Baptist and later a Disciple. for many years e was an elder and, though not an orator, his words, when he did speak, were well digested and weighty, and the church in Bedford stands to-day in large part a monomer to his energy and activity. He was an honest man; no word was ever said against his integrity. Three of the family of eight survive him: Mrs. Dr. Clark of Willoughby, Mr. S. S. Drake of Bedford, and Mrs. Z. J. Wheeler, of Defiance."
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