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Sarah was born in 1828. Sarah Bishop ... She passed away in 1910. [1]
BISHOP: Among pioneers of Pocatalico, later Reedy (History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 by William H. Bishop, Esq., pp. 448-45)
This is the family of the author of this book. Each of the Colonies had an ancestor of a notable of this name as appears in American Biographies. We can trace our ancestry no further back than to the country on the head waters of the Roanoke River, Virginia. There, in a section then Montgomery County, George Bishop married Miss Ann Boothe, about the year 1776. George and Ann made their first home where married; later passed further westward and lived in what later was Russell County, Virginia, in which place the younger ones of their children were born and reared.
The names of all-Rachel, Nancy, Margaret Pauline "Polly", Sarah Ann, John, James and two daughters whose names are lost to us, they being she who married a Mr. Lester, and was mother of that James Lester, popular horseman of near Ripley, years 1850 to 1870, the other of unremembered name, she who became the wife of Moses Hunt and lived in Russell County, Virginia, some years before and after the year 1830. Further of these:
Rachel Bishop married Armstead Harper in Russell County, and came to the Pocatalico country among its first settlers.
Nancy married David Keen in Russell County, about the year 1825. These are the parents of that James Keen, early settlers in Geary District.
Sarah Ann married Charles Drake, in Russell County, about the year 1830. They came soon to Big Sandy and their spent their lives and reared a family. See name, "Drake."
John Bishop, son of George and Ann (Boothe) Bishop, married in Russell County, Virginia, Miss Elizabeth (Mutter), born "in Virginia," father said; yet from the name Mutter and possession by the Bishops of an old leather bound Bible printed in Low Dutch, in which are recorded in English, names and births of "Mutters," we are persuaded this great-grandmother was of the settlements of the Shenandoah Valley, a daughter of a German or Flemish family, they were weavers of fine fabrics. However, the Bishops were of dark complexion, the women handsome brunettes. In the Bishop family was handed down a special knowledge of fine metal working, such as excellency of tempering tool steel, alloying, welding and chasing; knowledge, which if properly commercialized would have netted a fortune.
1850 Kanawha, VA # 1368-1390 Charles Drake 25 Va Sarah A 21 Ky Carisa 60 NC - (Most Likely Clarrisa Ann James Drake)
1860 Roane, VA # 293 Charles Drake 35 Ky Sarah A 32 Ky Wm P 10 Va Marshall 7 Va Mahala 5 Va Hulda 2 Va
1870 Geary, Roane, WV # 36-37 all born WV Drake, Chas 44 Jany Sarah A 41 June Wm P 18 Sept Marshall G 17 Oct Mahala R 15 May Hulda 12 Nov Jas R 10 Mar America V 8 July Newton J 4 Augt Mary D M 2 Augt
1880 Census Place: Geary, Roane, West Virginia Charles DRAKE Self M M W 55 KY KY NC Sarah A. DRAKE Wife F M W 53 KY KY KY Huldah C. DRAKE Dau F S W 21 OH James R. DRAKE Son M S W 19 VA Merica V. DRAKE Dau F S W 17 WV Newton J. DRAKE Son M W 14 WV Mary D. DRAKE Dau F S W 12 WV
1900 Geary, Roane, WV # 102 Charles Drake 1/1826 m 50y KY VA NC Sarahanah 6/1827 m 50y 12-8 children KY KY KY Charity gd 12/1889 WVWVWV
Charles Drake II came to Big Sandy County in 1846 or 1847. On the 11th day of May 1847 he united in marriage with Sarah Ann Bishop, who was born in Pike County, Kentucky on June 9, 1828. She was the daughter of John Bishop Senior. His wife was Margaret Bishop who was born in Russell County, Virginia in 1810, being it is observed, a sister of John Bishop II a pioneer of Pocatalico. Charles and Sarah Ann, his wife, made their home in Big Sandy of Elk, and there brought up children whose names and births are as follows:
William Parrot – September 16, 1850; Marshall G. - October 20, 1852; Mahala R. - May 11, 1855; Hulda C. - October 31, 1858; James Russell – October 16, I860; America V. - February 16, 1863; Newton J. - November 24, 1865, Mary D. M. - June 20, 1868.
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