Person: Thomas Sumner Drake

• Oklahoma Allottee

  Kansas Allottee

  Treaty Reserve Recipient

  Myaamia Language Source

  Nationality: Myaamia
  Family Group: Drake
• ID: 2659
  

  Gender: Male

  Date of Birth: Knw 04-18-1887
  Location of Birth: N/A

  Date of Death: Year 1961
  Location of Death: N/A
• Biography/Notes:
  Like several others in the family, Thomas Drake farmed in Ottawa County until the late 1920s, and then moved to Kansas City to work in the Stockyards. He married Beatrice June Leach and together they had nine children: Vernon, Jane, Nadene, Bonnie, Maurice, Jean, Betty, Thomas, and Iona. Coincidentally, Beatrice was Angie Leach Billington's sister, so Howard Billington's daughters and Tom Drake's children are first cousins. Many of his descendants still live in the Kansas City area. His daughter Iona Learned is now 83 years old and living in Manhattan, Kansas.