Maria (Crumrine) Drake (1906)
CRUMMIRE, CRUMRINE, DRAKE
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 2/6/2009 at 11:53:46
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, October 4, 1906Obituary
Maria Drake, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, April 19, 1828, died at her home near Middle River, Iowa, September 26, 1906.
Her maiden name was Maria Crummire and she was the last surviving member of a family of sixteen children. She was married to A. D. Drake, October 14, 1852. They moved to Iowa in 1858 and settled in Webster township, Madison county, Iowa, where she lived until beckoned beyond.
She was a woman of strong character, deeply religious belief and practice and her home was ever open to the itinerant minister. Her early religious life was identified with the Lutheran church but in later years she was an active member of the M. E. church, uniting with that church when the class was organized at Drake school house, near where she lived and many there are who will recall the goodly influence of her work here and later at the Webster church.
For six years past, she had been greatly afflicted and during the past three years was confined to her bed, a helpless invalid.
Her funeral services were conducted at the Webster M. E. church on September 28th, by Rev. W. C. Smith, her former pastor, and the interment made in the Roberts cemetery. She is survived by her husband and four children.
________________________The Madison County Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, October 4, 1906
Page 1, Column 3Obituary
Last Friday in the M. E. church at Webster was held the funeral services of Mrs. Dennis Drake, conducted by her old pastor, Rev. W. C. Smith, of Indianola.
Mrs. Drake was seventy-eight years old when she died, being the last one of the Crumrine family of sixteen children. She was born in Washington, Pa., April 19 1828, and died at her home in Webster township Sept. 19, 1906. She was married to Dennis Drake Oct. 14, 1852 and six years later moved with her husband to Madison county, Ia.
She was a Christian woman and her home was the stopping place for the ministers. During her last sickness which lasted about six years, she loved to talk of the revivals they had here in the early days. She became a member of the Methodist church at the time of the class at the Drake school house and has continued in this relation all her life. The last three years she was a great sufferer, being confined to her bed. The surviving husband and four children have the sympathy of their many friends.
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