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Rosalia Drake (Abshire)

Also Known As: "Rosalie", "Drake", "Abshier", "Absher", "Abcher"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Bayou Vermilion, Louisiana, Colonial America
Death: January 15, 1872 (90)
Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Jean Jacques or John Abshire, Sr. and Francoise (Frances) "Fanny" Abshire
Wife of John Aaron Drake, II
Mother of Kesiah Howard; Aaron Drake, Sr.; Sharphine Goins; Private John Aaron III Drake, III; Solomon Drake, Sr and 5 others
Sister of Benjamin Abshier Sr.; Theophile Abraham Abshire; Isaac Abshire; Elizabeth Abshire; Louise Abshire and 8 others

Occupation: A mulatre Libre of Carolina mariage certificate issued in Rosalies name
Managed by: Private User
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About Rosalia Drake

http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Abel_Angus.htm

John Abscher/ Abshire, born say 1740, a native of Pennsylvania, and his wife Francisca Hargrave, a native of Virginia, had been living in the parish of St. Martin Attapakas in Louisiana for twenty-one years on 10 May 1800 when they consented to the marriage of their seventeen-year-old daughter Rosalie to John Drake, a "Mulato libre natural de Carolina" (free Mulatto native of Carolina) [Hebert, Rev. Donald J., Southeastern Louisiana Records, 1750-1900 (1999), IV:195, cited by Barbara Ellison of Oklahoma in email correspondence]. They were the parents of

i. Rozalia, married John Drake, 18 May 1800 St. Martin of Tours marriage certificate [Church Records, Vol. 4, entry 195]

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Rosalia Drake's Timeline

1782
January 15, 1782
Bayou Vermilion, Louisiana, Colonial America
1798
1798
Baptized 4 Oct 1804
1800
1800
Louisiana, United States
1801
1801
1802
1802
Kentucky, United States
1802
Franklin, Louisiana, United States
1803
1803
1804
1804
St. Martinsville, St. Landry's, Louisiana, United States
1806
1806
St Landry Parish, Louisiana