I Find Dead People

Who Are All These People??

This was a picture my Grandmother had. The note at the bottom said that the center woman in black is Aunt Ida, which turned out to be Ida (Drake) Blackwell. The man and woman on either side are Benjamin Wesley Drake and his wife Jane Lawrance. The little girls at bottom center is my Great Grandmother - Cora Drake. Other than that, I don't know. I think they are all Ida's family. I know she had 13 kids and over 100 grand and great grand children. Ida lived to 103 years. I think she is buried at the Pennington Pres. Church Cemetery in Hopewell, New Jersey. Ida was married to Joseph Pierson Blackwell and was the daughter of Lewis Drake and Elizabeth Titus. I little side note, see the man standing in front of the right column. When I was young, I remember my grandmother telling me he was not quite right and he had hung himself in the chicken coop.