Stephen T. Drane

Birth Date

1808-01-25

Death Date

1893-06-16

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Shelby County, Kentucky, farmer. Shelby County native. Son of Stephen Drane and Priscilla Sprague Crabb Drane. Married to Birthia Ford Drane on May 1, 1828. Father of Edward Drane, Albert G. Drane, Meritt Drane, Leonard Drane, Mary Drane, and William Drane. Justice of the peace in Shelby County. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County from 1856 to 1857. Farmer in Shelby County in 1860. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1, p. 198.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1, p. 261A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Shelby County Marriages, Film #000259285.
W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 8th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 784-85.
Find A Grave, "Stephen Tillett Drane, Jr (January 25, 1808-July 16, 1893)," Memorial #28936928, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28936928 (accessed August 1, 2018).

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