Notes:
!1910 Fed Census for Friend Precinct says that she had 7 children all living. She
was 64 years old then.
Data source is Beth Arnold Taylor, E-mail ejat53@charter.net
Data source is Rebekah Donahoo. hakeber30@msn.com
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Mrs. W. P. Drake
Delana Jane Mumma was born in Post Washington, Tuskaraouas (sic) countey (sic), Ohio, June 4, 1846, and died in Friend, Nebraska, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Cora Earleywine, January 31, 1922, aged 75 years, seven months and 27 days.
At the age of fifteen she moved with her parents to Rock Island Co., IL:, where she grew to womanhood and on December 5, 1867, at the age of twenty-two she was married to W.P. Drake at Macomb, Ill. With her husband she continued to live in Illinois until the year 1874, when they came to Nebraska. They settled on a farm north of friend where they lived for one year and then moved to a farm three and one-half miles southeast of town. Here they lived and wrought together for thirty-five years when they moved to Friend, having their home on Chestnut street until the death of Brother Drake, just eight weeks and four and one half days before her going. Thus for more than fifty-three years they went hand in hand through life to be separated in death only for the short time already mentioned. And now, in the great dawn, in that country where there is no weariness or pain or sorrow and where the inhabitants never grow old, they are again united always to be together and always to be with their God whom they both reverenced and loved and served. Oh, we cannot comprehend it?the great glory, the enefable bliss into which the dear Lord has taken them.
Mrs. Drake was converted and joined the Methodist church very early in life and to the day of her death was a most sincere and earnest Christian woman. Like her husband she continued to attend the services of the church until the very last, often being present when the effort to do so must have caused her much weariness and pain. But yonder in the country where she has gone, she can worship Him whom having not seen in this life, she loved and join in the hallalujaj (sic) chorus, singing "Blessing and glory and thanksgiving and honor and power be unto him that sitteth on the throne and to the Lamb for ever and ever."
Sister Drake was the mother of seven children, four boys and three girls: Charles C., John E. and Daniel E., of Friend; and William S. of Fort Morgan, Colorado; Mrs. Bertie Long of Beaver crossing, Nebraska, Mrs. Cora Earleywine and Mrs. Nell Hocking of Friend. She also leaves three sisters: Mrs. Mary Sells, Hillsdale, Ill.; Mrs. Almira Dillon, Nelson, Nebr.; and Mrs. Ellen Eme? of Friend. There are also twenty-three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
But now she is gone. You will miss her as children and relatives, but thank God, with the sorrow and loneliness will come the comforting thought of the bounty of mother's life and the nobility of mother's character. And with a heritage that no piles of gold, no stretches of lace, no heritage of temporal character that the world has ever known is equal to that. May that life which she so gladly consecrated to Him whom she adored as her Lord and Master be your guiding star and may you so follow in the footsteps of the