When John Beach Drake was born on 16 September 1870, in Clarksville, Pike, Missouri, United States, his father, Samuel Alonzo Drake, was 33 and his mother, Lucinda D Denney, was 30. He married Adaline Gentry Glascock on 16 May 1894, in Hannibal, Marion, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Clay Township, Ralls, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Miller Township, Marion, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. He died on 22 October 1931, at the age of 61, and was buried in New London, Ralls, Missouri, United States.
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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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