Sympathy for the Drake Family

The sympathy of their friends in this city and in the old home in Illinois, is with the children of Mrs. Annetta Drake, Mr. Chester Drake, Mrs. Mayo and Miss Drake, of this city, Mrs. Maude Drake Little, and a younger son and brother, who is now a resident of New Orleans, but who was with his loved ones when the end came, the death of their beloved mother, having left them indeed desolate.

Few mothers have meant more to their children than did she, and few women have had a more beneficent influence on the home, the church or in the intimate circle of friends than the noble life and beautiful service of Mrs. Annetta Drake has had upon the life of this city where she has made her home since coming South with her husband in the days of their youth, to make their home and to fiy their hearts among the people whom they had chosen as their neighbors and their friends.

Many of these friends are today cognizant of a lack of something very sweet and true in the life about them, since Mrs. Drake is no longer a part of it, but has gone on to her "exceeding great reward."

FUNERAL OF MRS. DRAKE WILL TAKE PLACE TODAY
Obsequies to be Conducted At Central Presbyterian Church at 4:30 P. M.

The death Friday afternoon at her home on West Capitol of Mrs. Sylvia Annetta Drake, widow of the late | Jesse Drake, removed from social and [church life and the home-circle one of the truly good women of Jackson; a woman who, during the thirty years since she came here a young wife and mother, with her husband "from out of the West" to make a home in the South has stood for the best type of womanhood in the community where she has reared her children to honorable man and womanhood,

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Drake were among the first of the splendid colony of mid-Westerners to come into Jack- son thirty years ago, and with them they brought the energy and the hope [of that great country of wide spaces and during the years of their residence in the Southland. learned to combine with these qualities many that are essentially Southern, so making of them ideal citizens. The site on which stands Campbell College was formerly the home of the Drakes and in this suburban home was found the best that wholesome country life could afford always.

After the death of her husband, which occurred eighteen yars ago Mrs. Drake and her family removed to the city to make their home, and in the city they have since resided, the later years of the busy beautiful life having been spent in the sweet home on West Capitol street which today lies in the shadow of mourning for the mother who has gone from it. Within that home five devoted children sorrow for their mother's death: and yet sorrow not as those without hope, her fine Christian character and the strong faith which bore her with such courage through life's trials, giving to them the sweet assurance that she has but passed on into the purer, and more beautiful life of Eternity.

Mrs. Drake is survived by five children. Chester Drake of this city, Mrs.
Duncan Little (Maude)of MeComb, Paul Drake of Baton Rouge, Mrs. Will Mayo (Lucille) and Miss Marie Drake of this city: all of whom were with her when the end came to the life which had meant so much to all of those within the intimate circle of her family and friends. The arrival this afternoon from his home In Bloomington, Ill., of Mrs. Drake's only brother. Judge Sain Welty, gives great comfort to the sorrowing sons and daughters within the shadowed home of the sister whom he so greatly loved,

The funeral services will be held j this afternoon in the Central Presbyterian church of which Mrs. Drake was a devoted member, the pastor, Rev. R. B. Hough, assisted by Dr. J. B. Hutton of the First Church conducting the services and Mrs. J. B. Hutton and Miss Sara Dickinson singing. Mrs. Drake having in her 11fe especially loved the voices of these friends of her own and of her daughter's.

The pall bearers, lifelong friends of the family, will be Messrs. Zack Taylor, E. F. Anderson. A. R. Addkison, R. W. Bullard, L. E. Sugg and P. L. Borden, the interment to be in Cedar Lawn Cemetery this evening as the sun-set shadows fall,