Sarah "Sally" Drake

1789 - 1875  (85 years)

• Name	Sarah "Sally" Drake  [1, 2]
  Birth	7 Aug 1789	New Jersey, United States
  Gender	Female
  Cemetery	Miller Cemetery, Shelbyville, Shelby, Indiana, United States
  Residence	7 Aug 1850	Oxford Township, Butler, Ohio, United States
  Residence	20 Jun 1860	Hendricks Township, Shelby, Indiana, United States
  Residence	8 Jul 1870	Hendricks Township, Shelby, Indiana, United States
  Death	21 Mar 1875	Shelby County, Indiana, United States
  Burial	Shelbyville, Shelby, Indiana, United States
  Person ID	I15577	McKelleb
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2025

  
  

  Family	Hezekiah Smith,   b. 17 Jul 1784, Augusta, Richmond, Georgia, USA d. 2 Feb 1871, Smithland, Shelby, Indiana, United States (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	1 Apr 1806	Warren County, Ohio, United States   [1, 2]
  	I believe this may be a license and not the actual marriage with the way it is worded.
  Children	1. Carey Smith,   b. 15 May 1821, Ohio, United States d. 18 Aug 1904, Shelbyville, Shelby, Indiana, United States (Age 83 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Jesse Smith,   b. Jan 1807, Ohio, United States d. 20 Apr 1863 (Age 56 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Elizabeth Smith,   b. 15 Mar 1810, Ohio, United States d. 14 Oct 1894, Indiana, United States (Age 84 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Amanda Smith,   b. 15 Aug 1816, Ohio, United States d. 1 Oct 1888, Shelbyville, Shelby, Indiana, United States (Age 72 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Aaron Smith,   b. 2 Nov 1808, Warren County, Ohio, United States d. 27 Aug 1884, North Salem, Hendricks, Indiana, United States (Age 75 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Peter Smith  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F4695	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2025

  
  

• Notes

  The 1860 & 1870 Census has Sarah being born in 1785. From all my years of experience, the ladys were known for fibbing about their age on the census records. Evidently she wanted it to appear that she was 5 years younger than she actually was.

  
  

• Sources

  [S18] Ohio County Marriages, 1789-2016, (Name: Family Search; Location: Salt Lake City, Utah; Date: 2024;), Ohio, County Marriages, 1789 - 2016. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDWJ-2VM [S21] Ancestry.com, Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;).