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| W. Magruder Drake, ed. "A Mississippian at Yale in 1849: Two Letters of H. Winbourne Drake," Journal of Mississippi History, Vol.XLII, No. 4 (November 1981), p. 310: "Henry Winbourne Drake was born in 1828 on a small platation in Jerrerson County, Mississippi, about seventeen miles north of Natchez. He wwas the eldest son of Benjamin M. Drake, a prominent Methodist clergyman, and Susannah P. H. Magruder Drake. he entered Centenary College, then located in Brandon Springs, Mississippi, in 1843, moved with the college to Jackson, Louisiana in 1845, and graduated in 1847. After teaching school in Franklin County, Mississippi for a year, he attended lectures in the law Department of Yale College in 1848-1849. Drake returned to Centenary to teach Latin and Greek for two years, and then became a planter in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. During the Civil War he served briefly in a Louisiana cavalry battalion. Both during and after the war (1863-1867) he represented Tensas Parish in the lower house of the state legislature.After trying planting and school teaching again in the late 1860s, and further study of law, Drake was admitted to the bar in 1869. From then until his death in 1876 he practiced law in Waterproof, Louisiana, where he was active in civic and church affairs." Marriage is listed in La. Gen Register article abstracts of Tensas Parish Marriage Book A Henry Windborne Drake marriaged to Elizabeth Jane Miller Note that the 1850 census for Tensas Parish lists Henry W. Drake, age 22, as a schoolmaster in the household of E. L. Wailes and Mary Jane Wailes. Rootsweb Archives Tensas Marriages, 1844-70, Tensas Parish, Louisiana Marriages 1844-1870 Will Book & Deeds, Books A B & C Tensas Parish Court House Submitted by:Edith Ziegler, Abstracted by:Dorothy Guthrie lists Henry W. Drake and Elizabeth Miller marrying (or applying for marriage bond) 21 Sep 1851, with J. M. Miller and E. Loyd Wailes bondsmen or witnesses. | ||||||||||||
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