This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Drake Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QBB.2ACI/190.802 Message Board Post: Sally, I'm trying to get further back in the Drake line from around Warren Co., Tenn/McMinnville. My dad was Marless Leo Drake (siblings: Albert Evan, Gladys, Woodrow, and Martha Lou, born and my grandmother died in childbirth). Daddy's father was Murphy, and his father was George Washington Drake, back to Silas Abraham, to Elijah and Issac. The last female name was Phoeba Milien Rae, married to Elijah in 1807. My grandfather Murphy moved to Texas with his wife and children in the early 1900s, and the rest of their families stayed mostly around McMinnville. My grandmother was Martha Cantrell. I have two siblings: Barbara Ann (deceased at 17 in 1954) and Chris Leland Drake, who lives in Houston and is a history instructor at Houston Community College. I have 4 children: Ronald Casey Brownlow, Laura Nanette Brownlow Main, Benjamin Jay Brownlow and Brady Dale Brownlow, decesed 1998 in a LA gas well explosion. Three grandchildren: Noah Benjamin and Rebecca Lynn Bro! wnlow to Benjamin Jay and George Philip Moore Brownlow, Son of Casey and Kelley Elizabeth Moore Brownlow.