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Sources
1. Page:   Original - Sec 171; FPG digital pg 8
Author:   Drake, Louis Stoughton: Extracts by Florence Painter Griffith (FPG)
Publication:   Original privately published: Boston, 1896. FPG unpublished, photo copies with various descendants, digital images of pages by Susan Hopkins
2. Page:   Original - Sec 171; Susan Hopkins's digital image of FPG's book pg 8
Author:   Drake, Louis Stoughton: Extracts by Florence Painter Griffith (FPG)
Publication:   Original privately published: Boston, 1896. FPG unpublished, photo copies with various descendants, digital images of pages by Susan Hopkins

Notes
a. Note:   N315 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29354598 Created by: MHB Record added: Aug 27, 2008 Find A Grave Memorial# 29354598
  Burial: Bedford Cemetery Bedford Cuyahoga County Ohio, USA Plot: Section 3, Lot 29
  "Burial date, January 23, 1853. An Edwin Drake was buried in same Lot, no grave No.or burial date given. (Cem rec)
  Contributor: [email protected]@sbcglobal.net
  Their suggestion: ------------------------- Edwin Asaph Drake, eldest child of Alonzo and Sarah Eudocia Parmelee Drake, went to California during the Gold Rush and wrote home about his experiences. He returned to his parents' home in Bedford, OH in July 1853, but died a few weeks later of typhoid fever. He never married. (Source is digital images of the Drake family history scrap books of Florence Painter Griffith, a descendant of Alonzo and Sarah via their son, Solomon Sheldon. The book contains Edwin's letters and a photo believed to be of Edwin.)"
  Edwin's photo from Susan / Florence Griffith and family grave stone photo
  Created by: MHB Added: 27 Aug 2008 Find A Grave Memorial 29354598


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