Mary Marshall Drake Carland, wife of Ernest C. Carland
According to Elsie Drake Goepfert in The Henderson County Heritage, Volume 1, “Mary Marshall Drake was born 4 July 1903 and married 17 August 1924 the late Earnest C. Carland, Sr. She is a resident of West Palm Beach, Florida, where she and her husband reared their family of three Ernest C. Jr., now in Hendersonville; Mary Frances Parton, Tallahassee, Florida and John P., Safety Harbor, Florida. Ernest Sr., the son of the late Jerry and Jane Carland of Brevard, North Carolina was a member of the Men’s Bible Class and a member of First Baptist Church of West Palm Beach, Florida.”
Ernest C. Carland and Mary Drake Carland
Gertrude Perry Drake (left)  and Mary Drake Carland (right)
Left to right – John Paul Carland, Mary Drake Carland, Ernest Columbus Carland Jr., and Mary Frances Carland Parton.
Front Row (left to right) – Katie Jean Drake and
Mary Belle Lewis Drake
Back Row (left to right) – James Archibald Drake, Gertrude Perry Drake, Minnie Huggins Drake, Mary Drake Carland, and
Francis Henrie Drake
Left to right – Katie Jean Drake, James Archibald Drake, Elsie Lee Drake Goepfert, Francis Henrie Drake and Mary Drake Carland
Mary Drake Carland (Back Row – 4th 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)