Brief Life History of Emily
When Emily Drake was born in 1842, in Coles, Illinois, United States, her father, Thomas Drake, was 28 and her mother, Talitha Ann Crawford, was 25. She married Joseph H. Reynolds on 2 December 1858, in Coles, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Wabash Precinct, Gallatin, Illinois, United States in 1850. She died on 24 March 1932, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Emily Drake in household of Thomas Drake, "United States Census, 1850"
- Emily D Reynolds, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Miss Emily Drake, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934"
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World Events (8)
1848 · The California Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
1850
Find a Grave Memorials shows that the earliest burial in this cemetery was in 1850: Charles Finley Whitaker - BIRTH 1849 - DEATH 1850 (aged 0–1) - MEMORIAL ID 7923247
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English drake, either ‘drake, male duck’ (compare Duck ) or ‘dragon’ (Old English draca ‘snake, dragon’ or the cognate Old Norse draki), including an emblematic dragon on a flag (compare Dragon ). Both the Old English and the Old Norse forms are from Latin draco ‘snake, monster’; its sense as a nickname is unclear but it may have had the sense ‘standard bearer’. The name was taken to Ireland in the 13th century and reinforced by later English settlers in the 17th century.
German: from Low German drake ‘dragon’, familiar as image on signboards, hence a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or inn with such signboard.
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized and Flemish, of Draak, a cognate of 2 above, from draak (Middle Dutch drake) ‘dragon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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