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George J. Drake
George J. Drake, husband of
Mary Lewis Drake
According to Elsie Drake Goepfert in The Henderson County Heritage, Volume 1, “George Jackson Drake, 21 November 1908 – 20 August 1967 attended Pleasant Hill and Hendersonville High School and when he was young worked with brother John in building as plasterer. He married 18 November 1928 Mary Bell Lewis of Marion, North Carolina and they were parents of William Jackson of Rockdale, Texas and Dorothy Ann Greene and Francis Hubert Drake of Cary, North Carolina. Davis Lewis is deceased. All were members of Oak Forest Presbyterian Church, Enka, North Carolina where he was a member of the Hominy Masonic Lodge Number 491, A.F. and A.M. He was interested in fishing, outdoor life and gardening and spent most of his adult life in Enka employed by American Enka Corporation for thirty five years, retiring 1965. They returned to Hendersonville where his wife resides at the residence on Willow Road.”
George Jackson Drake (Back Row – 3rd from left)
Back row (left to right) – Minnie Huggins Drake, Gertrude Perry Drake, Mary Lewis Drake, Mary Drake Carland, Elsie Drake Goepfert, and Kattie Jean Drake
Front row (left to right) – Francis Henrie Drake, James Archibald Drake, George Jackson Drake, John W. Drake, and Martin Goepfert
(all buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery)
George Jackson Drake (1st from right)
Left to right (brothers) – Frances Henrie Drake, James Archibald Drake, John W. Drake, and George Jackson Drake