Died in or near Oakland, MS, which is on the border between Tallahatchie and Yalobusha Counties, such that a person living in Tallahatchie County (by census) could have the postal address in Oakland, Yalobusha County, MS.
Burial likely is a very large marker in the nearby cemetery of his family, the Swearengen Cemetery, in Yalobusha, MS, but the tombstone has fallen over, face-down and is too large to be up-righted without great risk, so it cannot be identified. This is a grand marker, about 5 feet tall, befitting a family patriarch, as was Drayton.
He was married twice, including Mary Ann English H. Armstrong.
Acc to 1880 census, a Bettie DOWNS, his 20 yr old niece, was boarding with him, (which probably is memorial # 677340870). Therefore 'DOWNS' COULD be either his wife's maiden name or the surname of his brother-in-law.
Burial likely is a very large marker in the nearby cemetery of his family, the Swearengen Cemetery, in Yalobusha, MS, but the tombstone has fallen over, face-down and is too large to be up-righted without great risk, so it cannot be identified. This is a grand marker, about 5 feet tall, befitting a family patriarch, as was Drayton.
He was married twice, including Mary Ann English H. Armstrong.
Acc to 1880 census, a Bettie DOWNS, his 20 yr old niece, was boarding with him, (which probably is memorial # 677340870). Therefore 'DOWNS' COULD be either his wife's maiden name or the surname of his brother-in-law.
Died in or near Oakland, MS, which is on the border between Tallahatchie and Yalobusha Counties, such that a person living in Tallahatchie County (by census) could have the postal address in Oakland, Yalobusha County, MS.
Burial likely is a very large marker in the nearby cemetery of his family, the Swearengen Cemetery, in Yalobusha, MS, but the tombstone has fallen over, face-down and is too large to be up-righted without great risk, so it cannot be identified. This is a grand marker, about 5 feet tall, befitting a family patriarch, as was Drayton.
He was married twice, including Mary Ann English H. Armstrong.
Acc to 1880 census, a Bettie DOWNS, his 20 yr old niece, was boarding with him, (which probably is memorial # 677340870). Therefore 'DOWNS' COULD be either his wife's maiden name or the surname of his brother-in-law.
Burial likely is a very large marker in the nearby cemetery of his family, the Swearengen Cemetery, in Yalobusha, MS, but the tombstone has fallen over, face-down and is too large to be up-righted without great risk, so it cannot be identified. This is a grand marker, about 5 feet tall, befitting a family patriarch, as was Drayton.
He was married twice, including Mary Ann English H. Armstrong.
Acc to 1880 census, a Bettie DOWNS, his 20 yr old niece, was boarding with him, (which probably is memorial # 677340870). Therefore 'DOWNS' COULD be either his wife's maiden name or the surname of his brother-in-law.
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