Did your cousin take digital photos of the pages? If so, you received copies - correct? If so, that is awesome! If they are not digital =- maybe they could get the Bible down (again) and make digital photos. Check and see if there is any additional notes/info on the pages of the Bible.
Who knows what else they might have up in that attic? Idaho - long ways from PA! Ha!
Oliver Drake & Frances Skinner -- most definitely!
The Drake Researcher, Oliver Drake was quite active in his research dating from the 1940's -up through the early 1970's.
Had had been on the Board of Directors for the NJ Genealogical Society, and followed Russell Bruce Rankin as Editor of the NJGS Journal (A Genealogical Magazine/Publication). He resided in PA, but spent a great deal of time in NJ.
Russell Bruce Rankin bequeathed to Oliver Drake --a large amount of Drake Research Materials. Oliver added his own materials to it, as well. This is now known as THE DRAKE COLLECTION - just one of the several repositories within the SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Section of the Alexander Library, at Rutgers University in New Jersey. [I've spent some time there doing reseearch.]
Yes, the pictures are digital. There are four pages of entries in the Bible, tho some are repetitive. Besides Hannah, other children of Oliver and Francis are listed: Ann, David and Jonathan. Also some of the Rush family from Pennsylvania, besides some entries for Mountain. I would dearly love to get my hands on that book and look thru!
Several of the Mountain family headed west early and that's the case here. This part of the family headed to Oregon in a wagon and obviously took a family Bible with them. The woman who made the entries would have been about the same age as Oliver and Francis' children and probably knew them pretty well.
Daniel Drake
Nancy,
Did your cousin take digital photos of the pages? If so, you received copies - correct? If so, that is awesome! If they are not digital =- maybe they could get the Bible down (again) and make digital photos. Check and see if there is any additional notes/info on the pages of the Bible.
Who knows what else they might have up in that attic? Idaho - long ways from PA! Ha!
Oliver Drake & Frances Skinner -- most definitely!
Aug 18, 2012
Daniel Drake
The Drake Researcher, Oliver Drake was quite active in his research dating from the 1940's -up through the early 1970's.
Had had been on the Board of Directors for the NJ Genealogical Society, and followed Russell Bruce Rankin as Editor of the NJGS Journal (A Genealogical Magazine/Publication). He resided in PA, but spent a great deal of time in NJ.
Russell Bruce Rankin bequeathed to Oliver Drake --a large amount of Drake Research Materials. Oliver added his own materials to it, as well. This is now known as THE DRAKE COLLECTION - just one of the several repositories within the SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Section of the Alexander Library, at Rutgers University in New Jersey. [I've spent some time there doing reseearch.]
Aug 18, 2012
Nancy Becker
Yes, the pictures are digital. There are four pages of entries in the Bible, tho some are repetitive. Besides Hannah, other children of Oliver and Francis are listed: Ann, David and Jonathan. Also some of the Rush family from Pennsylvania, besides some entries for Mountain. I would dearly love to get my hands on that book and look thru!
Several of the Mountain family headed west early and that's the case here. This part of the family headed to Oregon in a wagon and obviously took a family Bible with them. The woman who made the entries would have been about the same age as Oliver and Francis' children and probably knew them pretty well.
Aug 18, 2012