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Searching for information on Nancy drakes parents, parents...also any and all information on"[Daniel Buzzard] was twice married, his first wife being a Miss Nancy Drake, by whom he had fifteen children, all but five of whom lived to manhood and womanhood."  P. 266, Portrait and Biographical Record of Johnson and Pettis Counties, Missouri (Containing Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the Counties Together with Biographies and Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States)  Chicago:  Chapman Publishing Co. 1895.

The marriage of Daniel Buzzard and Nancy Drake is easily documented.  Nancy Drake and Daniel Buzzard were married in Wayne County, Ohio, on February 23, 1815, by J. Cord, Deacon, M.E. Church (Volume 1, Page 7, Wayne County, Ohio Marriages).  (On the same index page, the marriage of David Drake (brother of our Nancy) to Rachel Sill, on June 13, 1815 by Jesse Morgan, J. P. is noted.)

As will be seen in the ensuing discussion, Daniel Buzzard lived for some time in the Washington Township of Wayne, then Holmes, County, Ohio.  This was an area inhabited by a host of the Drake family, including the Revolutionary veteran brothers, Thomas and David, their sister-wives, Sarah and Margaret Hinkle, and their descendents.

Several questions arise about our Nancy Drake, which we attempt to answer here.

1. Who were the parents of our Nancy Drake?
2. What do we know of the siblings and parents of Nancy Drake?
3. What was her life like before she married Daniel Buzzard?
4. What do we know of her life after she married Daniel Buzzard?
5. What do we know of her death and burial?


1. Who were the parents of our Nancy Drake?

When we study the Drake family, we learn that the brothers Thomas and David both had several children, and each of them had a daughter named Nancy.  So, in our area we find two ladies named Nancy Drake:  one of them married Daniel Buzzard and was the mother of Daniel Buzzard's children; the other married a Thomas O'Dell and also lived for a long time in the general area.  Both of their births can be documented.  To complicate things further, they were double first cousins, with their fathers being brothers and their mothers being sisters.

We believe that we know the answer to the parentage of our Nancy Drake, but we cannot point to definitive proof, only circumstantial evidence.  Perhaps, on a more thorough examination of the deed records and estate and guardian records of Holmes Count, we can find a conclusive document.

Our Nancy Drake, we have concluded with some considerable degree of confidence, was born about 1794 in Baltimore, Maryland (LDS Film No. 442775, Page 0094, Ref# 06147; also LDS Film No. 458460).  Her parents, Thomas Drake and Sarah Hinkle Drake were married in about 1785 in Frederick County, Maryland.  (LDS 180114-052899105234) or perhaps in Allegany County, Maryland (LDS Film #458460).  Our Nancy and the Nancy Drake who married Thomas Odell apparently migrated with their respective parents from Allegany County, Maryland to Wayne/Holmes County, Ohio, and took their respective spouses at about the same time. 

The other  Nancy Drake, Nancy Drake Odell, was born, we have concluded, on 15 July 1795 in Allegany County, Maryland.  (LDS Film No. 442775, Page 12, Ref#06074).  Her parents were David Drake and Margaret Hinkle Drake, who had been married in Allegany County, Maryland around 1792.  (Note:  Allegany County, Maryland is often misspelled as Allegheny.)  (LDS Film # 458460).  This Nancy  married Thomas Odell on December 24, 1815 in Holmes County, Ohio.  (Wayne County Marriage Records).

The migration from Maryland to Ohio was apparently done en mass and included additional families besides the Drake family, including, at least, the Hendrickson family, the Chapman family, the Risor family, the Sigafoos family, the Scholes family, the Buzzard family, the Parsons family, .  Many members of the Drake family and other related families are buried in Drake's Cemetery, Holmes County, Ohio.  Some members of  and the Hendrickson family and the Odell family later migrated on to Iowa.  A relationship between the Hendrickson family and the Drake family is reported by virtue of Charlotte Hinkle and William Hendrickson having a son, William Hendrickson, who married a Mary Ann Drake (b. 1782 in Maryland), daughter of a David Drake.  Both William Hendrickson and Mary Ann Drake are buried in Holmes County, Ohio, presumably in Drake's Cemetery.  In fact, the 1940 readings of Drake's Valley Cemetery, show a William Hendrickson, Died August 31, 1854, Aged 70y ? 19d; and a Mary Ann, wife of William Hendrickson, Died Jan 8, 1863, Aged (obliterated).  (To complete the whole intermingling thing, a third Drake brother, William Drake, is reported to have married a third Hinkle, perhaps a third Hinkle sister, Elizabeth Hinkle.  This William Drake apparently died in Maryland and was not a part of the migration to Ohio.

As a further note to guide future investigation, the above suggests that David Drake had a daughter named Mary Ann Drake who was born in 1782 in Maryland.  This report fits well with the brothers David and Thomas being revolutionary war veterans, and begins to fill what is largely a ten year gap between the end of the revolutionary war, and the beginning of child bearing by the brothers.  It implies strongly that the listing below of the siblings of the two Nancy Drakes may be incomplete.

So, how were  we able to pin down which of the Nancy Drakes was married to Daniel Buzzard?  We do this by circumstantial evidence of living patterns, and then we close the case by process of elimination whereby Nancy Drake Odell is shown to have been the daughter of David and Margaret Drake, leaving our Nancy as the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Drake.

First the living patterns.  The original Washington Township Land Entries reveal much about the family patterns.  Early Land Records of Wayne County, Ohio, Compiled and Arranged by Richard G. Smith 1988, Published by The Wayne County Genealogical Society.

Section 4 of the Washington Township was entered as follows:
Nw160: Dan Buzzard 1817 May 3
Sw160 Thos Drake 1812 Feb 27

Section 9 of the Washington Township was entered as follows:
Sw160 Thos Odell 1817 Sep 27
Se160 David Drake Jr 1814 Mar 11
Ne160 Griffith Johnston 1817 Sep

Section 8 of the Washington Township was entered as follows:
N80Se David Drake 1833/1835
Ne160 David Drake 1812 Feb 27

When this picture is pieced together visually on a map you can easily see that Dan Buzzard and Thomas Drake entered adjoining properties; and Thomas O'Dell, David Drake, Jr. and David Drake entered adjoining properties.  Thus, by proximity of Daniel and his wife Nancy to Thomas Drake, one can guess that Thomas and Sarah were our Nancy's parents.  And this is bolstered by the proximity of Thos. Odell and his Nancy to David Drake and David Drake, Jr., further suggesting that Nancy Drake Odell was the daughter of David and Margaret Drake. 

An examination of certain deed records, however, strongly supports this view of the parentage of Nancy Drake Odell.  The deeds in question are recorded in Deed Book 2, page 47 of the Holmes County records.  We have not completed a thorough review of the Holmes County deed records and what we have are poor copies of microfilms of some deeds.  We hope to review these in more detail on our next excursion to Holmes County.

The first of the deeds is a quitclaim deed dated March 25th, 1826, and it recites, in part that the deed is from

"Griffith Johnston and Harriet his wife, Thomas Odell and Nancy wife, Nathan Drake and Miranda his wife, and George Drake and Rachel his wife, of the county of Holmes and State of Ohio, of the first part, and David Drake, Thomas Drake and Sarah Drake, children of David Drake, deceased, of the county aforesaid, of the second part…" 

A related quitclaim deed of unknown date is recorded at the same time.  Its heading says that it is a deed from "Sarah Drake to David Drake, Jr. and Thomas Drake" and part of the recitation of this deed states:

"Sarah Drake, child of David Drake,…[in consideration of monies paid to] Griffith Johnston, guardian of ? Drake and Sarah Drake, children of the said David Drake… and David Drake, Jr. and Thomas Drake, children of the said David Drake…"

While the poor copies of these deeds in our possession make a complete reading impossible, it seems clear that these deeds were a part of settling out the estate of David Drake (a son of the original settler David Drake).  The first deed then between the siblings of the deceased younger David and the three children of the deceased David, and the second deed was among the three children of the deceased David.  An examination of the hard copies of these deeds and the records of the probate court of Holmes County should fix these relationships beyond doubt.  Below, we refer to these two deeds as the "David Drake Children Deeds."

A somewhat consistent report by Phyllis Boyd Gauss, 7114 Romford Ct., San Diego, CA  92120 reports that the children of Thomas Drake and Sarah Hinkle were:  "David m. Rachel Sills; Eliphalet m. Mary Dodds; Catherine m. Daniel Buzzard; Eleanor m. Thomas Shearer; Margaret m. Mr. Bryan; Jesse m. Rachel Critchfield; Levi m. Catherine Henry."  We will address this report in the following section.

2. What do we know of the siblings and parents of Nancy Drake?

So, although the evidence is circumstantial, and at times not completely consistent, we can say with considerable confidence, that Nancy Drake Buzzard, the wife of Daniel Buzzard and the mother of his children, was the daughter of Thomas Drake and Sarah Hinkle Drake, and was born in 1794 Baltimore, Maryland.

More is written elsewhere about the parents and their lineage.

We believe that the children of Thomas Drake and Sarah Hinkle were as shown below, combining our LDS research and the above report of Phyllis Gauss.  Thomas Drake and Sarah Hinkle Drake are both buried in Drake's Valley Cemetery, according to the 1940 readings:  "Thomas Drake, died Jan 19, 1844 Aged 83y 2m & 3d; Sarah, wife of Thomas Drake, died April 13, 1848, Aged 85 yrs 2m 3d."  Thomas Drake had Land Entries in Washington Township on 27 February 1812 and 16 September 1815.

1. David Drake, b. 28 Oct 1790 (LDS Film#442774, p. 0092, ref#06441; film#458460).  David married Rachel Sills on 18 June 1815 (Wayne County records).  This interest excerpt from History of the Methodist Churches of Nashville and Western Holmes County, Rev. Joshua Crawford, from issues of the Nashville Journal, April 7, 1904 and following, shed additional light on David:  "I am quite sure there was another class perhaps older than [Nathan Drake's which dates back before 1822] of which David Drake, son of Thomas, sr., was the leader.  From this time on to 1832 this was a strong society, and during this time and for years later held a great Camp Meeting every year.  To these gatherings people came from every direction for thirty miles or more in big lumber wagons bringing provisions with them to last ten days.  Log tents were built and also a few canvas . . . .  Some of the most famous preachers of the West delivered their stirring sermons on this camp ground."  In addition to its obvious importance, this passage also establishes this David's life well past the earlier deeds that referenced David, son of David and Margaret Hinkle.  David Drake died on September 15, 1846, aged 55y 10m & 17d, according to the 1940 reading of Drake's Valley Cemetery; and from the same record, Rachel, wife of David Drake, was born March 27, 1799 and died Oct. 23, 1877, aged 78 y 7m 26d.  On our next trip to Holmes County, we should review the Nashville Journal, which was a weekly paper published in 1904-05 by Thomas Johnson. 

The following is written about one of David's sons:

MAJ. J.L. Drake was born in Holmes County, Ohio, November 1, 1817; the son of David and Rachel (Sills) Drake, who were natives respectively of Maryland and Virginia, and the parents of eight children. David Drake was twice married, by his first wife having two children. He came from Maryland to Holmes County, Ohio, in 1814, and died there in 1846. His wife died in the fall of 1878. James L. Drake, when seventeen years of age learned the tailor's trade. This he discontinued at the end of three years, on account of ill-health, and, engaged in farming; also clerked for a time. In 1849, he and twelve other, including three brothers, went to California overland, being one hundred and five days on the trip. They remained fourteen months. For the first two months our subject mined with the rest, but soon established a trading business, and in three months cleared $8,000. Among other things he clerked in a wholesale store in Sacramento, receiving $500 and board per month. The winter of 1850 he started home via Panama, and on his arrival in New Orleans was taken down with the small-pox. After his recovery, he returned to his family, and purchased the old homestead in Holmes County, Ohio. Mr. Drake has been a Democrat, but after the repeal of the Missouri Compromise became a Republican. For this his neighbors made threats to lynch him. He assisted in raising the first three years' company in Ohio, Company H Twenty-third Regiment, of which he was elected Captain. He also had two brothers and two sons in the war. One brother, Levi, Lieutenant Colonel of the Forty-ninth Ohio Infantry, was killed at Stone River. [my note:  he is buried in Drake's Valley Cemetery.]  The other, Commodore, was a Captain in the One Hundred and Ninety- second Regiment. One son, Levi N., was taken prisoner and starved to death in Andersonville. The other, Francis, was a non-commissioned officer in the Twenty-third Regiment, and is at present a hardware merchant of Rome City. Capt. J.L. Drake participated in all the engagements of his regiment until the battle of Antietam. Three of his regimental officers became distinguished in the history of the United States, viz.: Ex-President Hayes, Major; Stanley Mathews, Lieutenant Colonel; and William Rosecrans, Colonel. Capt. Drake was severely wounded by shell in the left arm and side, from the effects of which he was mustered out in October, 1862, and brevetted Major. He was elected Colonel of a Home Guards regiment, and was appointed Provost Marshal of the Fourteenth Congressional District, in which capacity he served until the close of the war. He was married, August 7, 1839, to Susan Hayward, of Cattraugus County, N.Y. They have had twelve children - Francis M., David, Sarah, Ellen, Emily, Mary, Cora, James S., Newton, Fremont, Sherman and Jack. Four are dead, viz.: David, Sarah, Newton and Sherman. The mother died April 23, 1877. Mr. Drake, in October, 1879, married Mrs. Harriet A. (Triplett) Filson. He came to La Grange in September, 1866, where he has since been living retired.
Source: "1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co.., - Town of La Grange


2.  Eliphalet Drake, b. April 5, 1791 (LDS Film#442774, p. 0093, ref#06442; film#458460; Nashville cemetery records). who married Mary Dodds.  From a typed "History of Nashville" located in the Holmes County Library:  "In 1823 Thomas Drake purchased from the government two 80 acre lots for two dollars an acre.  In 1827 he deeded on to Eliphalet Drake, his son.  In 1828 the state road was run from Millersburg to Mansfield, and at the suggestion of his neighbors, Eliphalet drake laid out a village and called it Nashville.  The reason for the name was that his father was a great admirer of Gen. Frances Nash who fell in the battle of Brandywine.  The town was plotted into 31 lots on June 30, 1828.  Eliphalet Drake donated land for a Methodist Church and cemetery at the west end of the village."  Eliphalet is buried in this cemetery, along with his wife Mary who died in 1863 at the age of 67.

3.  Nancy Drake Buzzard, b. 1794 (LDS Film#442775, p. 0094, ref#06147; film#458460), married, as we concluded above, Daniel Buzzard.  Phyllis Gauss' list of this family lists a "Catherine Drake, who married Daniel Buzzard" in this slot.  As will be seen elsewhere, Daniel Buzzard's second wife was named Catharine or Mary Catharine, but this second wife does not appear to be the mother of his children.  While the LDS films referenced apparently enumerate the children of Thomas and Sarah including our Nancy.  As discussed below, the burial place of Nancy Drake is unknown for certain.  Daniel Buzzard's brother, George Buzzard, is buried in Drake's Valley Cemetery.

4.  Eleanor Drake Shearer, b. 17 April 1796 (LDS Film#442775, p. 0095, ref#06144; film#458460) who married Thomas Shearer according to Ms. Gauss' list.  Several Shearers are known to be buried in Drake's Valley Cemetery including two children, Thomas D. and David Q., whose tombstones announce that they are sons of Thomas and Eleanor Shearer.  Also, there is a monument to John Shearer who was born June 15, 1755 and died April 3, 1832; presumably this is the father of Thomas Shearer.  John Shearer had a Land Entry in the Washington Township in 1825.  Also, there is a monument to "Sarah Shearer, Died November 20, 1851, Aged 81 yrs," presumable the wife of Thomas and mother of Thomas.

5.  Margaret Drake Bryan, b. about 1798 (LDS Film#442775, p. 0096, ref#06144; film#458460) who married Mr. Bryan according to Ms. Gauss' list. 

6.  Jesse Drake, b. about 1800 (LDS Film#442775, p. 0097, ref#06442; film#458460) who married Rachel Critchfield according to Ms. Gauss' list.  In the 1940 reading of Drake's Cemetery there is a stone that reads: "In memory of Rachel, daughter of Jesse and Rachel Drake who died January 13 A D 1842 Aged 7 years 8 months 7 days." 

7.  Levi Drake, b. about 1804 (LDS Film#442774, p. 0098, ref#06476; film#458460) who married Catherine Henry. according to Ms. Gauss' list.  A Cathirinah Henry is shown on the 1940 reading of Drake's Cemetery  as 1829 A 66.

We believe that the children of David Drake and Margaret Hinkle were as shown below:  David Drake had Land Entries in Washington Township on 27 February 1812 and 16 September 1816, on the same dates as his brother Thomas.  Another Land Entry is recorded for David Drake on 11 March 1814, on the same date as an Entry of David Drake, Jr.  Also, two additional Land Entries are shown for David Drake in 1833 and 1835, but these could be Entries of Thomas's son David, or even David's son David's son David.

1.  David Drake, b. before 1793.  Some records indicate a much later birth of 1805 (LDS Film#442774, Page#0015,Ref#06436; Film#458460), but these records must refer to some other David Drake.  This David Drake, Jr. entered land in the Washington Township on 11 March 1814, with Griffith Johnson later bordering on the North and Thomas O'Dell bordering on the east.  Clearly, this David Drake, Jr. was born before 1805!  The above described David Drake Children Deeds of 1826 vintage are between all the other children of Thomas and Sarah Drake and the children of David Drake, deceased, presumably this David Drake, Jr..  If so, this David Drake, Jr.  had three children named David Drake, Jr., Thomas and Sarah.  However, those deeds are dated 1826.  Perhaps the fact that in these series of deeds the Junior has been dropped from the name of this David Drake and applied to his son, suggests that the elder David Drake (brother of Thomas and husband of Sarah) had predeceased this David Drake, Jr.  We have been unable to locate a death record of the elder David Drake (broth of Thomas and husband of Sarah) or his wife, Sarah. 

2.  Harriet Jerusha Drake Johnston, b. 25 December 1793, Allegany County, Maryland (LDS Film# 452863, Reference # 22320; film#458460) who married Griffith Johnston (as shown in the above reference deed)  Moreover, it is reported that this marriage took place in 1813 and that the couple had 7 children and that Harried died on January 8, 1859, in Lowden, Cedar County, Iowa.  According to a typewritten History of Nashville in the Holmes County Library, 'the Drakes built the first Nashville community school west of Nashville with Griffith Johnson as the first teacher."  Griffith Johnston had Land Entries in the Washington Township in 1817 and 1818.

3.  Nancy Drake Odell, b. 15 July 1795, Allegany County, Maryland (LDS Batch #8483402, Source Call No. 1395859, Sheet 22; LDS Film# 442775, Page No. 0012; Ref#06074; Film# 458460) who married Thomas O'Dell (as shown in the above referenced deed and in Wayne County Marriage Records.)  Moreover, Thomas Odell and Nancy Odell appear in the listing of Nathan Drake's 1821 Class Book, from the Drake's Valley Methodist Church.  In the northeastern corner of the Washington Township is a famous lake called O'Dells Lake.  According to an article in the Holmes County Traveler, Sept Oct 1990, p. 20, "[A]s Holmes County was settled, the lake was renamed O'Dells Lake, after Rev. Thomas Odell."  It is unknown whether Nancy's husband was the Rev. Thomas Odell, or her son, or some other relative.  But, according to the article cited just above, Odells Lake became one of the premier tourist attractions in Ohio so long as the railroads were king.  It was reported in the article that among the many large groups that would meet there were General Sherman's unit which held eight reunions there, often having drill exercises and mock battles!  Thomas O'Dell had Land Entries in Washington Township in 1817 and 1819.

4.  Nathan Drake, b. 26 May 1797 in Allegany County, Maryland, (LDS Film# 452774, Page # 0013, Reference # 06437; film#458460)who married Miranda (according to the above-referenced deed).  Nathan Drake is buried in the Nashville Cemetery (Methodist):  d. July 18, 1882 85 yr 7-4.  Miranda Drake is also buried there:  d. Jan 22, 1871 71 yr 9 mo.  Nathan Drake was a Sunday School Class Leader as early as 1816 and held this position for over 50 years.  Members of his early class include Nathan and Maranda, Nancy and Thomas O'Dell, Eliphalet Drake, Sarah Buzzard (widow of George?), and a Mary Drake (could this be Mary Catherine, the second wife of Daniel Buzzard?)  According to a typewritten Nashville History found in the Holmes County Library:  "Mr. Nathan Drake, to whom we are indebted for many of the facts here noted, bought his land from the government at two dollars per acre.  He was born in Maryland in December 1796-consequently he will be eight years old should he live till next December.  His appearance indicated that he will reach more than four-score.  He came to Ohio when quite young, has lived here on this farm for forty-nine years; for the last ten he has lived here in town.  He married Miranda Weatherbee when about twenty-one and raised a strong hearty family of girls and boys. . . .  He distinctly remembers the place where [Nashville] stands when it was covered with trees and underbrush, and says he has chased many a deer from this spot.  He has seen and been with the Indians in their camp when they would rest on a journey to Green Township and Jeromesville.  Before Cornelius Quick built the grist mill at Lakeville, Mr. Drake and his neighbors had to go to mill on Owl Creek in Knox County on horse back, though they sometimes went down the Mohican in canoes and would paddle upstream with their cargo and to sell their grain they had the 'delightful' task of hauling it to Massillon."  Nathan Drake had a Land Entry in Washington Township in 1815, after he turned 18 years old.

5.  George Drake, b. about 1799, (LDS Film#442774, Page# 0014, Ref# 06437) who married Rachel (according to the above-referenced Deed).  There is a 1940 reading of the tombstone of George's wife in Drake's Valley Cemetery:  "In Memory of Rachel Drake wife of George Drake who was born August 30, 1801 and died January 23, 1829.  Beloved in life Lamented in death In eternity doubtless blest"

3. What was her life like before she married Daniel Buzzard?

A step back into history may be helpful.  Ohio became a state in 1803.  Wayne County, Ohio was finally established in 1812 (prior to that it had been a part of Columbiana County and known as Killbuck Township).  Wooster, the county seat of Wayne County, was established as a Post Office in December 1812.  In the 1810 census of Killbuck Township, there were only 46 heads of families and a total of 332 people in the county.  By 1820 there were 1941 heads of families and 11,935 persons, thus evidencing the rapid influx of pioneers.

The southeastern corner of Wayne County was referred to as the Washington Township.  In 1824 the southern part of Wayne County was joined with other lands to form a new county, Holmes County.  Thus the northwestern portion of Holmes County, known as the Washington Township, is the almost the same as the original southwestern corner of Wayne County.  Our geography is more complicated by having a slender plug of Ashland County just to the west of this township, and, not too many miles across Ashland County, one comes to Richland County.  The researcher of this area would do well to become familiar with the geography of the area.  See generally, Wayne County Ohio Early Censuses and Tax Lists, Compiled by C. Arthur Phillips, Homes County Library, Millersburg, Ohio, reprinted 1980 and 1998. 

There were several waves of immigration to flow through Holmes County, Ohio.  Of course, the Indians were first, and not far away, in Richland County one can find the final resting place of The Last Mohican.  German settlers were an early wave, settling in the northern townships, including the Washington Township.  A wave of Frenchmen later settled in the northern part of the Salt Creek Township.  And then the Amish, Swiss and Dutch waves came.  Holmes County is now predominantly Amish with only the far western sections showing as outside the concentration of Amish on a 2000 tourist map of Holmes County.  At some point, in the middle of all these migrations, the man known as Johnny Appleseed also came through Holmes County doing his thing.

This is an excerpt from "A Brief History of the Methodist Churches in Western Holmes Count, Expecially Those Included in the Nashville Circuit:"

One of the oldest Methodist organizations was the one in Drake's Valley where a log church building was erected by the Drake families and other Methodist families some time during the 1820's….
It is stated on good authority that the Drake Brothers, Thomas and David, built cabins in the valley as early as 1810 and brought their families soon after, possibly before the beginning of the War of 1812.  Apparently the Drake families must have owned a large tract of land on the eastern slope of the valley including the land on which the Village of Nashville now stands, for records show that one of Thomas's sons, Eliphalet by name, employed Samuel Robinson in the summer of 1828 to survey 31 lots in the village of what is now Nashville, the cemetery being one of them.  Apparently, however, no Methodist church was built until about 1839 or about the time the Great Revival of 1840 swept over Holmes County.  At about that time the log church in the valley was abandoned and a new organization was formed by the members in the valley and the new Methodist immigrants living in and around Nashville.
Incidentally, the village of Nashville was named in honor of Gen. Nash, a close friend of the Drake Bros., who was killed in the Battle of Brandywine during the Revolutionary War.  Some members of this church were of the Drake families, the Henry Campbell family, Frank Hughes, Henry Oberholtzer, Delmar Willard, Joshua Crawford.   This church later became one of the churches on the Nashville Circuit, Bigelow and Lakeville being the other two. 

More about the brothers Thomas and David Drake can be found as notes under their names.

4. What do we know of Nancy's life after she married Daniel Buzzard?


Daniel Buzzard, and presumably Nancy, appear in the 1820 census of Washington Township, Wayne County.  Wayne County Ohio Early Censuses and Tax Lists, ibid., p. 32.  (George, Jacob and Jonathan Buzzard also appear; as do, David, David (2), Eliphalet, Nathan and Thomas Drake.)  A separate summary of the 1820 census, which is available in the raw on microfilm at the Wayne County library, shows that the Daniel Buzzard family had males aged 25+ and 5; females aged 20 and 5; but age categories were loosely grouped in this census.)  In terms of family order, the families enumerated in the 1820 census of Washington Township came in this order:  41:David Drake,m25+; 42:Griffith Johnston,m25+; 43:Eli Booth, m25+; 44:Thomas Drake,m45+; 45:David Drake,m45+; 46:Daniel Buzzard, m25+; 47:George Buzzard, m45+.  Elipalet Drake,m25+, Nathaniel Drake, m25+, and Jacob Buzzard, m45+ appear elsewhere in the township.  Thomas Drake is located on a map alongside the eastern edge of the river in Section 4, and the elder David Drake is located in the southeastern corner of Section 9 on the north side of the road from Nashville to Loudonville.  From pages 62 and 63 of a small typewritten booklet about the 1820 Census of Wayne County, from either the Wayne County or the Holmes County library. 

The effect of the above is that we can see that in 1820, Nancy and Daniel are living in the neighborhood with assorted Drake and Buzzard relatives.  At this time she appears in the census to have only two or three children, though it would seem she should have had more by this time.  The actually microfilm of the 1820 census, as copied from the film in the Holmes County library, reveals that perhaps there were 5 people in the household in 1820, thus shows three children.  (p. 138).

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