Person: Milton Dyer Drake, Jr.

  • Nationality: Myaamia
    Family Group: Drake
  • ID: 2649
    Gender: Male
    Date of Birth: Knw 09-21-1883
    Location of Birth: N/A
    Date of Death: N/A
    Location of Death: N/A
  • Biography/Notes:
    Milton Drake, Jr., married Carrie Rolater in 1907, and had a son, Milton “Johnnie” Drake born in 1909. Unfortunately, his young namesake passed away in 1911. For a short time around 1918, he worked at the stockyards in Chicago; but returned home in due time. Milton divorced Carrie around 1919 and married Cynthia Jane Dobson. They had five children: James, Jessee, Estalee, Milton, and Hazel. By 1930, he was living in Chickasha, Oklahoma, while working on a farm. He is found in the historical record again, for the last time, on the 1940 federal census, living in Weatherford, Oklahoma, at the age of fifty-seven.

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Birth

September 21, 1883

1889 Allotment

March 2, 1889

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatires of the United States of America in Congressa ssembled, That the provisions of chapter One hundred and Nineteen of the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty seven, entitled "An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations,and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes," are hereby declared to extend to and are made app...