The Genealogy of the Drane Family, Staffordshire, England who came over on "The Ark and Dove," Lord Baltimore's Party, James Anthony Drane, Uncle of Lady Baltimore. The Drane lands now Shelbyville, KY. History of Lands in Maryland and now Washington, D.C., with reference to Capt. Archibald White's family and the Thurman's. 

Introduction

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The value of this genealogy lies principally in disproving a popular belief in regard to the religion of the leaders of the Baltimore party, history states that Lord Baltimore became a Protestant but does not state the religion of his wife, a sister of James Anthony Drane, and near relatives. The Dranes were originally strict Scotch Presbyterians. The writer never heard of any everfeing (?) Roman Catholics. It also shows the kind of men and women Kentucky was originally settled by and being a large family made many marriages with other early settlers.

The future historian and novelist in depicting the pioneer days of Kentucky when American "knighthood was in flower," will narrate deeds of men and women who belonged to a pure race and with great intellectual powers and moral uprightness whose ancestors were gallant cavaliers from whose blood comes a race with better social ideals and intellectual comprehension of those things which produce human progress. The struggle to maintain these principles against almost overwhelming odds, in a great many instances, has been misunderstood. Kentucky clannishness and family pride have its true recognized value today as of yore in erection barriers against the “furrier” of debauched Europe who comes as an exploiter not as an empire builder, but as a parasite bringing a mongrel, blaster horde whose progeny will never reach the intellectual and moral standard of a pure race according to science, to curse by means of the ballot those who would serve God and make our country even better. To those of like ideals and standards, Kentucky has always been noted for her hospitality.

Genealogy of the Drane Family of Staffordshire, England. The Drane Lands, now Shelbyville, Kentucky.

George Humphrey Tichenor, Jr., A. B., M. D.,

The first connected Genealogical History of the American Dranes was compiled by Mr. Frank C. Drane, 3421 North 18th Street, Philadelphia, PA, verified by a cousin Isobel h. Lenman of Washington, D. C., from time to time covering a period of forty (40) years. It concerned his branch of the family and was not published, so far as I know, but a typewritten copy was furnished me by Mrs. C. S. Lutz, 1618 Snow Avenue, Tampa, Fla., a copy of which follows.

"James Anthony Drane, (2), born at Staffordshire, England, about 1604, being a son of Sir James Anthony Drane, (1st), a Florist and Gardener and propagator of Berries, Fruit and other trees. Very little is known of James Anthony Drane, (1st) except that his sister--------married into the Calvert family of England, and that he was the uncle of Gerald and Leonard Calvert, (afterward Lord Baltimore), and that his son James Anthony Drane, (2nd), our great paternal ancestor was of the party of “Lord Baltimore,” who came over in the ship, "The Ark and Dove," commanded by Caption Archibald White, from England, and landed at St. Ingoes (?) on the St. Mary's River, Maryland, March 25th, 1634. Later about 1637, a settlement was made at St. Marys, Md., further up the river, or rather it might be stated, the landing at St. Ingoes was a temporary one, because while the emigrants or ships party first set foot on the soil of America, (1634) at St. Ingoes, the cargo of household goods, etc.., could not be landed there because the water was not deep enough. So the cargo was taken to St. Mary's, and the town was built and fully established about two (2) years later, (1637).

During this interval, "The Ark and Dove," made many voyages between America and England for Building, Hardware, and Supplies for the colonists and each returning voyage brought back many colonists, all or nearly all of whom were from families belonging to the nobility of England, who later settled most of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia, (1635-1687). James Anthony Drane, (2nd), bought land and settled in Prince George County, near what is now Beltsville, (Washington Branch, Baltimore, and Ohio, R.R.). The exact quantity of acreage is not known, but it was large as it extended South from Beltsville to Bladensburg, MD., and was a part of the ten (10) mile square, now known as Washington DC. It also extended five (5) miles North to an Oak, (now a village by that name in Montgomery Co MD.) and West ten (10) miles to what is now known as Sligo, Montgomery, Co., MD. This was the original Wilderness Plantation,  of which all or nearly, has passed out of the family with the years, except a hundred (100) acres now owned by Miss -------------and the daughter of my brother William (who died, July 1904) and myself. On my part, (53acres) still stands the Old Oak Grove, described at that time (1687) as being a landmark over 150 years old. This grove still stands uncut. Not more than six (6) trees were ever down, according to family tradition, (these were struck by lightning, but stumps remain). 

James Anthony Drane, (2nd) Our Ancestor, married Nancy Brent, the daughter of Robert Brent, who was the first Governor of the colony of Maryland, and whose first proclamation, made March 27th, 1634, at the Indian village near St. Ingoes, called Yoacomico, on the St. Mary's River gave to every colonist, Civil and Religious Liberty, and land for a home in the near settlement. It is believed that James Anthony Drane died about 1687.

There is no family record of James Anthony Drane (2nd), his wife, (above mentioned), Nancy Brent, except that of one son, William, nor is there a record of his marriage, except that left in the records of the Baptism of James Anthony Drane, (3rd) of whom we are direct descendants. It is believed that Dranesville, Loudon Co., VA., was settled by a son of James Anthony Drane, (2nd), (This, however, I could never confirm to date).

James Anthony Drane, (3rd), was born on a part to the Wilderness Plantation of his grandfather, (James Anthony Drane, (2nd) at what is now Brightwood, Washington, C.C.,) (date unknown, about ----, he married Ann Smith, by whom he had (10) ten children, 8 sons, and 2 daughters, as follows, to-wits- 

I. Elizabeth , who married a /Woodward by whom she had one son, Ashford 2nda Bennett by whom she had one daughter, Elizabeth.

II. Ellen, who married Benjamin Beth, Beltsville, (B.&O.R.R.), Prince George Co., MD. by whom she had William, Benjamin, Elizabeth. These sons and daughters kept in touch with their uncle my grandfather, David Drane, up to his and their own death, but I have no historical record of them. 

III. Robert Brent Drane, an Episcopal minister, settled at Wilmington, N.C., married 1st Agusta Endicott, 2nd Mrs. Catherine C. Parker. By Augusta Endicott's 1st wife, he had two sons, Richard Hooker Drane and Henry Martyn Drane, (Col, C.S.A.) By Mrs. Catherine Parker he had one son, Robert Brent Drane, Jr., Episcopal Minister, Edenton, N.C.

IV. David Drane, (My grandfather) born at Brightwood, Washington, D.C., married--Mary Leuman (maybe Lenman) Prince George Co., MD. Children born at Brightwood, D.C. 1st William Leuman Drane, my father, 2nd Gustavus Leuman Drane, 3rd Matilda Leuman Drane, 4th Jane Leuman Drane, 5th Alfred Leuman Drane.

William Leuman Drane, married 1st Mary Bonsall of Phila, PA., 2nd Mrs. Louise Solomon, (Mary’s sister), children by 1st wife, William R. Drane, Louisa Drane, Henry Gustavus Drane: by second wife Alfred Drane and Frank C. Drain. My father, William L. Drane, came to Philadelphia about 1830, he being a printer by trade on the Congressional Globe ( which was then the Record of Congress, at Washington, D. C. ) He started the first penny newspaper in Philadelphia, 1834. Afterward, (1856), he joined the Public Ledger Newspaper and remained with it up to his death, May 27, 1881.

Frank Condie Drane, (the writer hereof), married Rebecca Moore Snyder, June 5th, 1872, children (Bessie) Maude Isobel Drane, age 36, maiden, Frank C. Drane, Jr., 33, single, Edwin Snyder Drane, 30 married Jessie Bessie Rainsby, 9/29/1805, Walter Gordon Drane, 24 single, Bessie Marie Drane, 19, maiden dated 4/16/1911.

Occupations. Frank C. Drane, Jr., asst. Advertising Agent, Phila. Record Newspaper with which he has been connected since 1897. Edwin Snyder Drane, Manager of Sales, (1899), Hershey Chocolate Co., Hershey, PA in charge of North New Jersey Territory, headquarters, Erie, PA. Frank Jr. and the two girls, Maude and Bess, live at home with their papa and mamma. 2nd son, Gustavus Leuma Drane, married, 1839) Jane Patterson, of Allegheny City, PA. where he was a resident, having gone there in 1835, and was made first Postmaster of Allegheny City, PA (1839). Later he became connected with the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroad (Now part of the PA R. R. System), where he remained until his death in 1867. Children Elizabeth, died in 1866, (married) David died 1866, Mary died 1866, married Annie, died 1866, married, William A., widower, Matilda, married Charles, single, died 1896, Henry McClellan, died 1909, married. 

3rd son, Fared Leuman Drane (single) who lived all his life with his eldest sister, James Leuman Dravis, adjoining farm to that part of the original Wilderness Plantation which now belongs to me, but which he farmed until his death in 1880, leaving his part of the property to my father, Wm. L.

Jane Leuman Davis, married Hezekiah Davis of Montgomery Co MD., died about 1858. Children, one son who died in childhood.

Matilda Leuman Drane married Levi Osborn of Brightwood, D.C. children 8 sons, of whom the following are still living at Brightwood, D.C. which is at present in the city of Washington; Marion, married, James Single, George Washington, single, Charles, no record (went to Florida, 1882). Lost to us.

V. Kinsey Drane, son of James Anthony Drane, 3rd, According to my father’s records, granduncle Kinsey Drane emigrated to the wilds of Fayette and Westmoreland Counties, near Greensburg, PA. After that, the (our) family lost all trace of him, but it is believed that he went first to Kentucky or Tennessee, and later to the far south of that day.

VI Gustavus S. Drane, 4th son of James Anthony Drane, 3rd. This son seems to have been the real thing as a Fighting Soldier. His early life was spent upon his father's plantation at Brightwood, D.C. After he reached manhood he entered the U.S. Army. during the Seminole War, he and his infantry command were active participants. He was stationed at a point now known as Fort Drane (just N.W. of what is now Ocala, Marion Co., Florida), remaining there during all the Seminole War. He was transferred to Pensacola, Fla., and while there, married Margaret Caldwell of Mobile, Ala. (they had no children).

When the Mexican War, (1848-1849), broke out he and his command participated in every battle and with General Winfield Scott, entered the city of Mexico (1849), ending the war. At its conclusion, he came to Philadelphia, PA., and was put in command of Fort Mifflin, on the Delaware River, where he died in 1855.

At my father's death (1881), I came into possession of our great Uncle Gustavus military equipment, etc. Among these relics were two swords. One was his service sword, which he carried through active hostilities in the field. The other was his Dress Sword, presented by U.S. Congress at the close of the Mexican War, (which we keep as priceless relics). Also part of his silver service, which is in use at my table (sugar bowl and cream Pitcher) at nearly every meal, or to be more exact (when we have special company). They are just beautiful to this day and are much admired. We have other silver too, that belonged to him that is prized beyond all price. I was a baby when he died, and when aunt Margaret died, about 1858, she made me her heir to all she had in the way to real and personal property of every description- most of which was run through with, etc. 

VII. Anthony Drane, your grandfather, 5th son of James Anthony Drane 3rd according to my record which is very meager, he was a Caption of Regular Infantry, U. S. Army married Elizabeth Rebecca Ferguson. Children, Joseph Kent Drane and Sssian (?) Anthony Drane, your Father.

VIII Hadrick Drane, 6th son of James Anthony Drane 3rd. my record shows that he was born and lived his whole life at Brightwood, D.C. and died there---- That he married Mary White and had one son, James Anthony Drane. This Mary White resided at Brightwood, D.C., and was the great-granddaughter of Captain Archibald White, who commanded the ship, "The Ark and Dove" referred to as the Lord Baltimore Colony. The Whites were a large family and left many descendants around Brightwood D.C. Most of them have large wealth that came to them through the land. The White Plantation is now wholly the city of Washington, D.C. I know them all very well.

IX Washington Drane, 7th son of James Anthony Drane. My record shows that early in life he emigrated to Ohio and later to Kentucky, near Shelbyville where one of his sons married a Shaw. My record does not show to whom Washington Drane was married, but it does show that he had at least two (2) sons i.e. Washington and James Anthony Drane 5th.

X. Stephen Drane, 8th son of James Anthony Drane, 3rd, My record shows that he was an officer in the U.S. Regular Infantry. That he never married and that he was killed in battle during the War of 1812.

End of Frank C. Drane's Record.

Kentucky Dranes, Drane Lands Now Shelbyville, Kentucky.

The genealogy as given by Frank C. Drane is confirmed by the genealogy given by Mrs. Mary Drane Bass, Campbellsville, KY. In a letter to Mrs. B.R. Warder, of Bowling Green, KY, Aug 28, 1913, in which she gives her (BASS) record as follows:

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There were seven (7) Drane brothers who came over from England and settled in Prince George Co., Maryland, some of their descendants are there and in Washington, D.C. Walter and Albert Drane live in Washington, D.C. now. I met this Albert Drane when I was in Washington several years ago. My grandfather, Stephen Drane, was one of the seven brothers who came from England and settled in Prince George Co MD. My grandfather came to Shelby Co., KY, and settled and lived and died on the farm where my father, Stephen Tillet Drane lived and died also, the same farm on which I was reared and lived until I came here. My father's oldest brother, Dr.. Edward C. Drane had a son, Judge Geo. Canning Drane who served three terms as judge of Circuit Court lived and died in Frankfort, KY” (Mrs. Mary Drane Bass)

Her father Stephen Tillet Drane had three brothers, Dr. Edward C Drane, Theodore S. Drane, and James H. Drane, two sisters, Elanor C. Drane and Emma Drane all dead.

From a newspaper clipping, I gather the following information concerning Capt. Edward M. Drane died at the age of 82 in Frankfort and was Secretary to the State Sinking Fund Commission and Assistant to the custodian of the capitol. He was born in Henry Co. and early in life went to Louisville where he engaged in the commission business. His brother was Geo. C. Drane, Circuit Judge of this district. Capt Crane married Miss Keats of Louisville, a niece of the poet Keats. he is survived by two daughters, Miss Adele and Agnes Drane.

Mrs. Frank C. Drane also says, “ many years ago my father was in close touch with the Washington Drane’s family, because of the fact that all or nearly all of his father's family fought in the Revolutionary War of 1776-1778. To those that fought through the Revolution, (and I understand all the male Dranes were officers in the Continental Army), and at its conclusion, Congress voted land grants in Kentucky to all the survivors thereof, and the Dranes all chose land in the wilds of (Kentucky) in one large claim, but for some reason, all claims were not settled upon those entitled, and Squatters and Frontiersmen did. Then others came there and took up land also, and so continued for years until a settlement grew up upon a part of the Drane lands, which later became Shelbyville, KY.

Before this had become apparent it seems that Washington or Anthony Drane, 5th had got in touch with his family in Prince George Co Brightwood, D.C. writing them to assert their rights to Kentucky lands. This caused an infestation to be made of the records of the General Land Office at Washington, D.C. and everything being found O.K. as to their title, they secured the necessary deeds, had them recorded, and then intended one of them to journey out there and take possession. But in those days that meant great hardships and danger and the going was put off, until "Time and Tide which wait for no man." settled the ownership under Squatters Rights. Long after this some of the heirs went out there but it was too late. The deeds were surveyed out and it was found that the center of the joint tract of land was the town of Shelbyville, KY and the rest was held under Squatter deeds, (that held them safe on age),.

The writer of this history remembers many stories told by his grandmother, Thurman, concerning this section of Kentucky. How one of her ancestors was the first supervisor of mails and the trials encountered not only with the Indians but also with robbers, the mail being carried by relays on horseback before the stagecoach made its advent. Also, tales told the children of Indian scalping and fights in this section by mother, Margaret Drane, which invariably made our hair stand on end and bed a doubtful place of safety, especially as they were true to family tradition. How great uncle, Col.. Whitley, a famous Indian fighter, saved one of the Vanatter family, Col. Lewis, after being scalped by the Indians. (the Vanatters were bankers in Shelbyville. I knew some of the family, related to the Timberlakes of Louisville, KY. by marriage, Sam Lawrence who lived there also was a cousin of my mothers.)

My mother was Margaret Ann Drane, both grandparents, George Drane and Philip Thurman were Messmates at the Battle of Chalmette, New Orleans under General Jackson, War 18112. According to grandmother Thurman, these friends, comrades in arms, laid a trap to unite their families by marriage by Geo. Drane sending his son, T. J. Drane, with a supposedly important letter to Philip Thurman’s home where he met Margaret Thurman, fell in love, and later married.

Margaret Ann Drane is the daughter of Thos. Jefferson Drane and Margaret Ann Thurman, granddaughter of Geo. Drane (whose sons were Dr. William Whitley Drane, Rev. Thos. Jefferson Drane, and James N. Drane, daughters, Martha and Mary) , and wife Julia Whitley, (daughter of Col. Whitley, Indian fighter). (Mrs. William W. Drane was a Board. Dr. Milton Board of Louisville, KY states that his father Judge Board knew Geo. Drane very well in a letter to Mrs.. B. R. Warder of Bowling Green, KY, however, my mother says the only thing she remembers about his was that she was a child when he visited them and he was very old). the great-granddaughter of Washington Drane of Shelbyville, KY, or rather the neighborhood, and Miss Lawrence.

Margaret Drane, Wife of Dr. Geo. Humphreys Tichenor, Sr., M daughter of Rev. T. J. Drane and Margaret Ann Thurman was born in Breckenridge Co. KY, Aug 4 , 1846, Received her education at the Baptist College at Shelbyville, KY, and the State college at Memphis, TN.

During the Civil War, her principal service done for the Confederacy was assisting her sister, Mrs. Mollie J. Smith to enable eleven of Forrests’ soldiers to escape from the Memphis prison and carrying messages into Memphis TN, through the lines to be forwarded to Gen. Braxton Bragg in KY.
During Reconstruction, her experiences have been told by Mrs. A. S. Dimmitry (?) War-Time Sketches, under her own name and the nom-de-plume Thurman. 

While living in New Orleans, LA, she has been ascribe in Confederate affairs was President of the New Orleans Chapter, No. 72, U.D.C., and for three years Corresponding Secretary of Jefferson Davis Morial Assn. 

While a member of the Stonewall Jackson Chapter, she opposed the McKinney design for the Women of the south which had been accepted by the Veterans for the reason that she considered it did not correctly portray the heroic southern woman. She convinced her chapter, the U.C.V., U.D.C., and C.M.S. Assn. and they withdrew their endorsement of the design. During her vigorous campaign, she received numerous letters from prominent men and women leaders of the old and new South. These letters and articles written by her were incorporated into a book and deposited in the Solid South room, Confederate Memorial, Richmond VA. These letters and articles comprise a basic work for the historian and future novelist in regard to the true character of the Southern woman of the Sixties. She was made a life member of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, Sept. 5, 1911.

She has three living sons, R. A. Tichenor, Atty. and Notary Public, Dr. G. H. Tichenor, Jr., New Orleans, La, and Dr. Elmore Drane Tichenor, Detroit, Mich.

Rev Thomas Jefferson Drane was born in Lebanon, KY, Nov 30, 1813, died in New Orleans, LA, Oct. 16, 1895, married Margaret Ann Thurman near Lebanon, KY, May 29, 1838, Rev. Robinson officiating. (Margaret Ann Thurman daughter of Philip Thurman and Springer, Lineal descendent of Sir John Springer, England), was born in Washington Co., KY, Feb 4th, 1819, baptized into the fellowship of the Lost Run Baptist Church, 1842, died in Baton Rouge, LA. She belonged to a distinguished Virginia family, a first cousin of the Statesman and Democratic nominee for President, Allen G. Thurman.

Rev. T. J. Drane was pastor of the Baptist Church at Nicholasville and Shelbyville, and pastor of the East St. (?) Baptist Church, Louisville, KY about 1856, Pastor of First Baptist Church in Memphis TN about 1858. Held the chair of Theology in Baptist Female College at Shelbyville, KY about 1854. Was on Committee on the revision of St. James Version of the Bible, I Book of Job), Associated minister with J. R. Graves, John L. Waller, Robert Larue, Robert Thurman, Vaughn, and John Broades, leading theologians of his day. Chaplin for several companies in Memphis TN., during the Civil War. Mason, Officiated at the burial of Henry Clay. (Mother has the Masonic apron worn at this occasion).

There are two living descendants, Rev. Robert Larue Drane who lives with his sister Mrs. B. H. Tichenor. 

DR. William Whitley Drane's Family

Dr. Wm. Whitley Drane was probably named after his mother's (Julia Whitley) people. She was the daughter of Col. Whitley, William, the famous Indian fighter. (Col. William Whitley was born in Rockbridge Co, PA, in Aug 1749 died 1813. My grandmother, Thurman said, in the stock of his gun he cut the following inscription, "to make Tories fall and Injuns squall." After marrying Ester Fuller in Jan 1775 he started out with his brother-in-law George Clark and other men for Kentucky, sometime later he settled in Lincolnshire Co. (Whitley's station). He was naturally a leader. 

Copy of letter dated Bowling Green, KY, March 1st, 1915 to Mrs. Margaret Tichenor, New Orleans, LA by Mrs. B. Warder. 
Dear Cousin, My mother was a Board. Judge Board of Louisville is a Cousin of my mother, he is very old and lives with his son, Dr. Milton Board who has a Sanitarium in Louisville, he (Judge Board) said he remembered our Grandfather well and he said his name was George. I met Judge Board at Hardinsburg, Breckenridge Co. before he went to Louisville, he told me more of my family on both sides than I ever knew. The Dranes lived in and near Hardinsburg and the graveyard was full of Boards, etc.

My father had four sisters, aunt Sarah married a Presbyterian minister, had two sons, the oldest was a preacher I heard. Aunt Martha married a Monroe, he had three daughters, Sarah, Emily, and Julia, and two sons, Dudley and Gustavus, whom both went to Mississippi years ago and married and have families now. Aunt Julia married a Gibson, had a son Monroe and a daughter. Aunt Mary married a Stone. My father raised her son William who is dead and left a family. When I was quite small Aunt Sarah and her two sons lived in a cottage in our yard and aunt Martha Monroe with her two sons and three daughters lived in our home, my father supported them and sent them to school. I think Judge Board must be right in regard to our grandfather being named George, my next oldest brother who died when an infant was named George Christopher, the names of both my fathers and my mother's father I suppose. Years ago, when I was quite small my father sent a lawyer to Baltimore to investigate our claim to property that he had been notified was due to the Drane heirs, etc. Grandfather Board was an old Virginian and married a Virginia lady, that was a real lady, 

Children Mollie Blanche married Daniel Slaughter Foushee, (both dead), George Christopher Drane died in infancy. William Henry Harrison Drane married Elizabeth Bunnell, (both dead) children live in Duzant, Miss Christopher Columbus Drane died in infancy, Albert Gallitant Drane married widow Depp, now living in St. Petersburg, Fla. Mattie Drane is dead. Virginia Crittenton Drane married Sidney Beck, now lives in Dallas, TX. Belle Rogers Drane now living near bowling Green, Warren Co KY. Charles Monroe Drane married Maggie Fallen. Louis James Drane married Henrietta living in Louisville, KY. Ida May Drane married Richard Bolling, dead. conclusion of record given by Belle Rogers Drane (Mrs. Warder)

Copy of a letter written by Mrs. B. R. Warder, Jan 19/14 corroborating the correctness of the foregoing genealogies by Judith Drane Hewitt, 308 West 82nd Street, New York City.

When my cousin Adele Drane received your letter, she was so grieved and shocked over her father’s sudden death, that she sent it to me asking me to answer for her, etc. Cousin Adele's father was Capt. Edward Morton Drane, his brothers were my father (Judge George Canning Drane) and Dr. Joseph Drane, surgeon in the Civil War. He had two sisters, Agnes Drane Logan and Martha Drane Lane. All of the family are dead, uncle Edward being the last of a long-lived family, being 82 years old. 

Their father was Dr. Edward Crabb Drane and his father was Stephen Drane. As I haven't my papers of the genealogy of the family here, I can remember no further back, but I know there was a Gustavus and Anthony Drane, both supposed to have been in the Revolutionary War. I remember seeing the death of Dr. Jefferson Drane in one of the Louisville papers and I am sure I have the clipping in my home at Frankfort.

James N. Drane married Cecelia N. Cully, Sept. 21st, 1848, she was born in Munfordville, Hart Co KY, on June 29th, 1824. They moved to Durant, MS 1876. The writer remembers visiting him at Durant, MS when a boy and the story of the siege of Vicksburg MS was told to me by him. He was an officer under Gen. Pemberton. He was one of the largest strawberry growers at that time in MS, called Strawberry King, also owned a farm at Cristol Springs. MA. His place was across the road from Richard Bolling, Elder in the Presbyterian Church.

Notes providing accuracy of this genealogy. 

The Official Continental Census, 1790, Maryland, heads of families mentions Anthony Drane, Prince George Co, six children: Barbara Drane, Baltimore Co. three children; Elinor Drane, Prince George Co six children; James Drane, Jr. two children; Thomas Drane, Montgomery, six children.

The records show that one Stephen S. Drane served in the war of 1812 as a member of Captain McIntosh's Company, U>S. Artillery. He is shown to have enlisted Feb. 10, 1812, to serve 5 years, and to have died Dec 1812, exact date not shown, as a sergeant. Nothing further relative to this has been found in records at the War Department.
There appears to be $800 as longevity due to Gustavus S. Drane, born in Maryland enlisted in 1812 died when Captain 4/16/1846. at Ft Mifflin, PA.

The records of the War Department show services in the Revolutionary War of men surname Drain or Drane as follows:

John Drain, rank not stated, 5th South Carolina Regiment. He enlisted on Sept. 7, 1778. No further record of his service has been found.

John Drane (surname also found as Drain), private, Capt. John Stith’s Company, 4th Virginia Regiment, also designated 4th, 8th, and 12th Virginia Regiment was commanded successively by Major Isaac Beal, Col. James Wood, and Col John Navill.

John Drain, ensign, 7th Maryland Regiment. His name appears on an updated list showing the arrangement of the officers of seven Battalions to be raised by the State of Maryland, as passed by the General Assembly Apr. 1777.
John Drane, Captain, flying Camp State.

Lady Genie Cleugh, Swift Current, Sack, Canada was a Thurman of Paducah KY.

The writer has a newspaper clipping making the following announcement “While repairing an old building in Little Falls, N.Y., recently Theodore Burnham, a carpenter, found an old discharge paper granted by George Washington to John Drane. It is dated June 9, 1783, and is in a good state of preservation.

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Capt. Edward M. Drane, one of Kentucky's leading Republicans, was commissioner of Franklin Circuit Court, Postmaster of Frankfort and Secretary to the State Sinking Fund Commission, and assistant to the custodian of the Capital. He was born in Henry County and early in life went to Louisville where he engaged in the commission business. His brother was George C. Crain, Circuit Judge of this district.

Drane Surname File KY Historical Society

Capt. Drane married Miss Keats of Louisville, a niece of the poet, Geo. Keats. He is survived by two daughters, Misses Adele and Agnes.

Barren Co. KY Dranes

I am indebted to Mr. Geo. P. Turner, of Glasgow, KY for the following information:

My wife’s great-grandfather, Anthony Drane, and his wife, Catherine Scott before their marriage came to Barren County Kentucky from near the city of Baltimore, MD. My wife's grandmother, Martha Drane, was a daughter of Anthony and Catherine Drane and was married to Benjamin Leavell, Jan 10, 1822. The Levell family came to Barren Co KY from Virginia. The Levell family and the Drane family came to Kentucky about the same time and built their homes from the virgin forest on adjoining farms and from the first strong friendships were formed. Anthony Drane born 1776 died Oct. 20, 1830: his wife Catherine born 1775, died Aug 11, 1855. Sons, Richard K. S. born Aug 17, 1799, died Apr. 9th 1834, Anthony, born Aug. 1803, died Feb. 1877, Judson S. Drane born Aug. 19, 1807, died Feb 26, 1858. Thomas------- daughters Sabina S., Born Aug 25, 1805, died Mar 21, 1837, Margaret S.S. born Apr 14, 1779, died June 11, 1830, Martha S., born Jan 11, 1793, died Feb 6, 1853.

Copied from a manuscript in the files of the Kentucky Historical Society, December 4, 1958.

No date was given on the original manuscript.