*Uriah was at Oakwood cemetery for several years then reinterred near Fort Stephenson monument according to article I just found today (April 15, 2023)
"According to an article found in The Fremont Messenger of January 18, 1936, two years after the transfer to Oakwood the city decided to move the grave back for sentimental reasons to its current location, directly behind 406 Croghan Street."
His tomb currently lays at The Old Post Office Ground, 414 Croghan Street Fremont, Ohio, the grave can be reached by ascending the steps between buildings toward the apartment building located at the top of the bluff, then turning east. It is located at the rear of the property.
Father Judge/Captain William S. Drake of Poughkeepsie, NY
Mother Rebecca Uriah
Uriah came to Ohio in 1807 with his father, Captain William S. Drake, who purchased 105 acres of land along the Greenville Treaty Line in present-day Waldo Township, Marion County. They cleared some land to plant potatoes, pumpkins and corn. His father returned to Dutchess County, NY to bring the rest of the family, while Uriah remained to cultivate the crop. William returned with his wife and other seven children in 1808.
He became the first mail carrier to operate between Franklin County, Ohio and Lower Sandusky, at that time a small enclave of white traders in the Indian lands guaranteed by the Greenville Treaty of 1795.
In the summer of 1811, Uriah had planted a crop of corn for Major Butler of Delaware, Ohio near Lower Sandusky (Fremont). Several conflicting accounts describe the events and perpetrators of his death. One asserts he was killed by Indians, another by a white man who had been adopted by Indians after having been taken captive, and a third, the following, courtesy of Lisa Hasselbach, appeared in The Western Intelligencer, Worthington Ohio, reprinted September 4th, 1811 in the Centinel, Gettysburg, Pa:
Horrid Murder
Mr. Uriah Drake, son of Wm. Drake of Norton, in Delaware County, Ohio, a young man of about twenty-two years of age, was murdered and mangled in a most shocking manner on the evening of the 27th ult. near the road leading from Lower to Upper Sandusky, and about seventeen miles from the former place. This horrid deed is supposed to have been perpetrated by a transient free negro man who calls himself Bad Jackson, and who is apprehended and confined in irons, in Delaware County. The circumstances as far as we have been able to learn from the deputy sheriff of that county, appears to be as follows:
Mr. Drake had started off the forenoon of the 27th, from Lower Sandusky, where he had been several months at labor, to return to Norton without any company, and was seen by an intelligent Indian to pass his cabin about three miles on the way about three hours before night on the same day. The negro man was at the time standing and conversing with the Indian, having just come the same road from the Lower town, having about him a rifle, an ax, a tomahawk, and hunter's knife and soon after Mr. Drake had passed, followed on the same road.
Nothing further was heard of the young man until several days after, when his friends being informed of his starting from home, became alarmed, and with the assistance of both the white people and the Indians of the Sandusky settlements, who zealously turned out upon the search, discovered the body on the fourth instant, about forty rods from the road immediately on the bank of the Sandusky River, and about five miles from where the Indian saw him. It appears the murderer had overtaken him on the way, and struck him or attempted to strike him, so that he took the alarm and ran off the road toward the river where he was pursued and murdered in the edge of the water, his track with shoes and his pursuer with moccasins were seen descending into the water, and the moccasin track only out of it a short distance below, and a trail where the body had been dragged up the bank after having been stripped of his coat, vest, hat, handkerchief, shoes and pocket book, thrown into a thicket of weeds. He had received four cuts in his head with the edge of a tomahawk and one with the head of it, all of which penetrated his skull, and was scalped in a manner different than of Indian usage. Some part of the property of the unfortunate young man was found in possession of the negro, though not the principal, and various other circumstances have led to the suspicion, the negro supposed Mr. D to have received his wages in cash (which he had not, except two dollars) and had committed the horrid deed to obtain it from him--scalping him that it might be imputed to the Indians."
His body was transported to Lower Sandusky, where he was buried north of what would become Fort Stephenson on a knoll near present-day Arch Street.
On September 28, 1912 his remains were removed and re-interred a short distance from the original grave, with a lead tablet listing the names of the city officials of the time buried along with it.
On June 4, 1924 his remains were once again disinterred, again to clear space for a building project. Fourteen mail carriers from the Fremont post office served as an honor guard for this first authorized mail carrier in this part of the country. The lead plate was inscribed with more information, and the remains were interred in the western extremity of Oakwood Cemetery. The heavily-weathered sandstone headstone was reportedly moved to mark the new grave. At the time of the report, the stone read Uric(faded) Drake, 1811.
"The Mystery of Uriah Drake", by Lisa Hasselbach states that according to an article found in The Fremont Messenger of January 18, 1936, two years after the transfer to Oakwood the city decided to move the grave back for sentimental reasons to its current location, directly behind 406 Croghan Street.
The grave can be reached by ascending the steps between buildings toward the apartment building located at the top of the bluff, then turning east.
This location is directly north of the library, the former site of Fort Stephenson.
**It took two of us to find his burial but, Sandy, (contributor SKnottMutchler) and I figured the puzzle pieces out. Last week she was able to take the tour and view Uriah's grave in person. Now there is no doubt, he is in his final resting spot.
"According to an article found in The Fremont Messenger of January 18, 1936, two years after the transfer to Oakwood the city decided to move the grave back for sentimental reasons to its current location, directly behind 406 Croghan Street."
His tomb currently lays at The Old Post Office Ground, 414 Croghan Street Fremont, Ohio, the grave can be reached by ascending the steps between buildings toward the apartment building located at the top of the bluff, then turning east. It is located at the rear of the property.
Father Judge/Captain William S. Drake of Poughkeepsie, NY
Mother Rebecca Uriah
Uriah came to Ohio in 1807 with his father, Captain William S. Drake, who purchased 105 acres of land along the Greenville Treaty Line in present-day Waldo Township, Marion County. They cleared some land to plant potatoes, pumpkins and corn. His father returned to Dutchess County, NY to bring the rest of the family, while Uriah remained to cultivate the crop. William returned with his wife and other seven children in 1808.
He became the first mail carrier to operate between Franklin County, Ohio and Lower Sandusky, at that time a small enclave of white traders in the Indian lands guaranteed by the Greenville Treaty of 1795.
In the summer of 1811, Uriah had planted a crop of corn for Major Butler of Delaware, Ohio near Lower Sandusky (Fremont). Several conflicting accounts describe the events and perpetrators of his death. One asserts he was killed by Indians, another by a white man who had been adopted by Indians after having been taken captive, and a third, the following, courtesy of Lisa Hasselbach, appeared in The Western Intelligencer, Worthington Ohio, reprinted September 4th, 1811 in the Centinel, Gettysburg, Pa:
Horrid Murder
Mr. Uriah Drake, son of Wm. Drake of Norton, in Delaware County, Ohio, a young man of about twenty-two years of age, was murdered and mangled in a most shocking manner on the evening of the 27th ult. near the road leading from Lower to Upper Sandusky, and about seventeen miles from the former place. This horrid deed is supposed to have been perpetrated by a transient free negro man who calls himself Bad Jackson, and who is apprehended and confined in irons, in Delaware County. The circumstances as far as we have been able to learn from the deputy sheriff of that county, appears to be as follows:
Mr. Drake had started off the forenoon of the 27th, from Lower Sandusky, where he had been several months at labor, to return to Norton without any company, and was seen by an intelligent Indian to pass his cabin about three miles on the way about three hours before night on the same day. The negro man was at the time standing and conversing with the Indian, having just come the same road from the Lower town, having about him a rifle, an ax, a tomahawk, and hunter's knife and soon after Mr. Drake had passed, followed on the same road.
Nothing further was heard of the young man until several days after, when his friends being informed of his starting from home, became alarmed, and with the assistance of both the white people and the Indians of the Sandusky settlements, who zealously turned out upon the search, discovered the body on the fourth instant, about forty rods from the road immediately on the bank of the Sandusky River, and about five miles from where the Indian saw him. It appears the murderer had overtaken him on the way, and struck him or attempted to strike him, so that he took the alarm and ran off the road toward the river where he was pursued and murdered in the edge of the water, his track with shoes and his pursuer with moccasins were seen descending into the water, and the moccasin track only out of it a short distance below, and a trail where the body had been dragged up the bank after having been stripped of his coat, vest, hat, handkerchief, shoes and pocket book, thrown into a thicket of weeds. He had received four cuts in his head with the edge of a tomahawk and one with the head of it, all of which penetrated his skull, and was scalped in a manner different than of Indian usage. Some part of the property of the unfortunate young man was found in possession of the negro, though not the principal, and various other circumstances have led to the suspicion, the negro supposed Mr. D to have received his wages in cash (which he had not, except two dollars) and had committed the horrid deed to obtain it from him--scalping him that it might be imputed to the Indians."
His body was transported to Lower Sandusky, where he was buried north of what would become Fort Stephenson on a knoll near present-day Arch Street.
On September 28, 1912 his remains were removed and re-interred a short distance from the original grave, with a lead tablet listing the names of the city officials of the time buried along with it.
On June 4, 1924 his remains were once again disinterred, again to clear space for a building project. Fourteen mail carriers from the Fremont post office served as an honor guard for this first authorized mail carrier in this part of the country. The lead plate was inscribed with more information, and the remains were interred in the western extremity of Oakwood Cemetery. The heavily-weathered sandstone headstone was reportedly moved to mark the new grave. At the time of the report, the stone read Uric(faded) Drake, 1811.
"The Mystery of Uriah Drake", by Lisa Hasselbach states that according to an article found in The Fremont Messenger of January 18, 1936, two years after the transfer to Oakwood the city decided to move the grave back for sentimental reasons to its current location, directly behind 406 Croghan Street.
The grave can be reached by ascending the steps between buildings toward the apartment building located at the top of the bluff, then turning east.
This location is directly north of the library, the former site of Fort Stephenson.
**It took two of us to find his burial but, Sandy, (contributor SKnottMutchler) and I figured the puzzle pieces out. Last week she was able to take the tour and view Uriah's grave in person. Now there is no doubt, he is in his final resting spot.
*Uriah was at Oakwood cemetery for several years then reinterred near Fort Stephenson monument according to article I just found today (April 15, 2023)
"According to an article found in The Fremont Messenger of January 18, 1936, two years after the transfer to Oakwood the city decided to move the grave back for sentimental reasons to its current location, directly behind 406 Croghan Street."
His tomb currently lays at The Old Post Office Ground, 414 Croghan Street Fremont, Ohio, the grave can be reached by ascending the steps between buildings toward the apartment building located at the top of the bluff, then turning east. It is located at the rear of the property.
Father Judge/Captain William S. Drake of Poughkeepsie, NY
Mother Rebecca Uriah
Uriah came to Ohio in 1807 with his father, Captain William S. Drake, who purchased 105 acres of land along the Greenville Treaty Line in present-day Waldo Township, Marion County. They cleared some land to plant potatoes, pumpkins and corn. His father returned to Dutchess County, NY to bring the rest of the family, while Uriah remained to cultivate the crop. William returned with his wife and other seven children in 1808.
He became the first mail carrier to operate between Franklin County, Ohio and Lower Sandusky, at that time a small enclave of white traders in the Indian lands guaranteed by the Greenville Treaty of 1795.
In the summer of 1811, Uriah had planted a crop of corn for Major Butler of Delaware, Ohio near Lower Sandusky (Fremont). Several conflicting accounts describe the events and perpetrators of his death. One asserts he was killed by Indians, another by a white man who had been adopted by Indians after having been taken captive, and a third, the following, courtesy of Lisa Hasselbach, appeared in The Western Intelligencer, Worthington Ohio, reprinted September 4th, 1811 in the Centinel, Gettysburg, Pa:
Horrid Murder
Mr. Uriah Drake, son of Wm. Drake of Norton, in Delaware County, Ohio, a young man of about twenty-two years of age, was murdered and mangled in a most shocking manner on the evening of the 27th ult. near the road leading from Lower to Upper Sandusky, and about seventeen miles from the former place. This horrid deed is supposed to have been perpetrated by a transient free negro man who calls himself Bad Jackson, and who is apprehended and confined in irons, in Delaware County. The circumstances as far as we have been able to learn from the deputy sheriff of that county, appears to be as follows:
Mr. Drake had started off the forenoon of the 27th, from Lower Sandusky, where he had been several months at labor, to return to Norton without any company, and was seen by an intelligent Indian to pass his cabin about three miles on the way about three hours before night on the same day. The negro man was at the time standing and conversing with the Indian, having just come the same road from the Lower town, having about him a rifle, an ax, a tomahawk, and hunter's knife and soon after Mr. Drake had passed, followed on the same road.
Nothing further was heard of the young man until several days after, when his friends being informed of his starting from home, became alarmed, and with the assistance of both the white people and the Indians of the Sandusky settlements, who zealously turned out upon the search, discovered the body on the fourth instant, about forty rods from the road immediately on the bank of the Sandusky River, and about five miles from where the Indian saw him. It appears the murderer had overtaken him on the way, and struck him or attempted to strike him, so that he took the alarm and ran off the road toward the river where he was pursued and murdered in the edge of the water, his track with shoes and his pursuer with moccasins were seen descending into the water, and the moccasin track only out of it a short distance below, and a trail where the body had been dragged up the bank after having been stripped of his coat, vest, hat, handkerchief, shoes and pocket book, thrown into a thicket of weeds. He had received four cuts in his head with the edge of a tomahawk and one with the head of it, all of which penetrated his skull, and was scalped in a manner different than of Indian usage. Some part of the property of the unfortunate young man was found in possession of the negro, though not the principal, and various other circumstances have led to the suspicion, the negro supposed Mr. D to have received his wages in cash (which he had not, except two dollars) and had committed the horrid deed to obtain it from him--scalping him that it might be imputed to the Indians."
His body was transported to Lower Sandusky, where he was buried north of what would become Fort Stephenson on a knoll near present-day Arch Street.
On September 28, 1912 his remains were removed and re-interred a short distance from the original grave, with a lead tablet listing the names of the city officials of the time buried along with it.
On June 4, 1924 his remains were once again disinterred, again to clear space for a building project. Fourteen mail carriers from the Fremont post office served as an honor guard for this first authorized mail carrier in this part of the country. The lead plate was inscribed with more information, and the remains were interred in the western extremity of Oakwood Cemetery. The heavily-weathered sandstone headstone was reportedly moved to mark the new grave. At the time of the report, the stone read Uric(faded) Drake, 1811.
"The Mystery of Uriah Drake", by Lisa Hasselbach states that according to an article found in The Fremont Messenger of January 18, 1936, two years after the transfer to Oakwood the city decided to move the grave back for sentimental reasons to its current location, directly behind 406 Croghan Street.
The grave can be reached by ascending the steps between buildings toward the apartment building located at the top of the bluff, then turning east.
This location is directly north of the library, the former site of Fort Stephenson.
**It took two of us to find his burial but, Sandy, (contributor SKnottMutchler) and I figured the puzzle pieces out. Last week she was able to take the tour and view Uriah's grave in person. Now there is no doubt, he is in his final resting spot.
"According to an article found in The Fremont Messenger of January 18, 1936, two years after the transfer to Oakwood the city decided to move the grave back for sentimental reasons to its current location, directly behind 406 Croghan Street."
His tomb currently lays at The Old Post Office Ground, 414 Croghan Street Fremont, Ohio, the grave can be reached by ascending the steps between buildings toward the apartment building located at the top of the bluff, then turning east. It is located at the rear of the property.
Father Judge/Captain William S. Drake of Poughkeepsie, NY
Mother Rebecca Uriah
Uriah came to Ohio in 1807 with his father, Captain William S. Drake, who purchased 105 acres of land along the Greenville Treaty Line in present-day Waldo Township, Marion County. They cleared some land to plant potatoes, pumpkins and corn. His father returned to Dutchess County, NY to bring the rest of the family, while Uriah remained to cultivate the crop. William returned with his wife and other seven children in 1808.
He became the first mail carrier to operate between Franklin County, Ohio and Lower Sandusky, at that time a small enclave of white traders in the Indian lands guaranteed by the Greenville Treaty of 1795.
In the summer of 1811, Uriah had planted a crop of corn for Major Butler of Delaware, Ohio near Lower Sandusky (Fremont). Several conflicting accounts describe the events and perpetrators of his death. One asserts he was killed by Indians, another by a white man who had been adopted by Indians after having been taken captive, and a third, the following, courtesy of Lisa Hasselbach, appeared in The Western Intelligencer, Worthington Ohio, reprinted September 4th, 1811 in the Centinel, Gettysburg, Pa:
Horrid Murder
Mr. Uriah Drake, son of Wm. Drake of Norton, in Delaware County, Ohio, a young man of about twenty-two years of age, was murdered and mangled in a most shocking manner on the evening of the 27th ult. near the road leading from Lower to Upper Sandusky, and about seventeen miles from the former place. This horrid deed is supposed to have been perpetrated by a transient free negro man who calls himself Bad Jackson, and who is apprehended and confined in irons, in Delaware County. The circumstances as far as we have been able to learn from the deputy sheriff of that county, appears to be as follows:
Mr. Drake had started off the forenoon of the 27th, from Lower Sandusky, where he had been several months at labor, to return to Norton without any company, and was seen by an intelligent Indian to pass his cabin about three miles on the way about three hours before night on the same day. The negro man was at the time standing and conversing with the Indian, having just come the same road from the Lower town, having about him a rifle, an ax, a tomahawk, and hunter's knife and soon after Mr. Drake had passed, followed on the same road.
Nothing further was heard of the young man until several days after, when his friends being informed of his starting from home, became alarmed, and with the assistance of both the white people and the Indians of the Sandusky settlements, who zealously turned out upon the search, discovered the body on the fourth instant, about forty rods from the road immediately on the bank of the Sandusky River, and about five miles from where the Indian saw him. It appears the murderer had overtaken him on the way, and struck him or attempted to strike him, so that he took the alarm and ran off the road toward the river where he was pursued and murdered in the edge of the water, his track with shoes and his pursuer with moccasins were seen descending into the water, and the moccasin track only out of it a short distance below, and a trail where the body had been dragged up the bank after having been stripped of his coat, vest, hat, handkerchief, shoes and pocket book, thrown into a thicket of weeds. He had received four cuts in his head with the edge of a tomahawk and one with the head of it, all of which penetrated his skull, and was scalped in a manner different than of Indian usage. Some part of the property of the unfortunate young man was found in possession of the negro, though not the principal, and various other circumstances have led to the suspicion, the negro supposed Mr. D to have received his wages in cash (which he had not, except two dollars) and had committed the horrid deed to obtain it from him--scalping him that it might be imputed to the Indians."
His body was transported to Lower Sandusky, where he was buried north of what would become Fort Stephenson on a knoll near present-day Arch Street.
On September 28, 1912 his remains were removed and re-interred a short distance from the original grave, with a lead tablet listing the names of the city officials of the time buried along with it.
On June 4, 1924 his remains were once again disinterred, again to clear space for a building project. Fourteen mail carriers from the Fremont post office served as an honor guard for this first authorized mail carrier in this part of the country. The lead plate was inscribed with more information, and the remains were interred in the western extremity of Oakwood Cemetery. The heavily-weathered sandstone headstone was reportedly moved to mark the new grave. At the time of the report, the stone read Uric(faded) Drake, 1811.
"The Mystery of Uriah Drake", by Lisa Hasselbach states that according to an article found in The Fremont Messenger of January 18, 1936, two years after the transfer to Oakwood the city decided to move the grave back for sentimental reasons to its current location, directly behind 406 Croghan Street.
The grave can be reached by ascending the steps between buildings toward the apartment building located at the top of the bluff, then turning east.
This location is directly north of the library, the former site of Fort Stephenson.
**It took two of us to find his burial but, Sandy, (contributor SKnottMutchler) and I figured the puzzle pieces out. Last week she was able to take the tour and view Uriah's grave in person. Now there is no doubt, he is in his final resting spot.
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