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Drahn, Henrietta Brock

Henrietta <i>Brock</i> Drahn

Location: P-Higginbotham

Born: October 18, 1867 Rusk County, Texas

Died: August 18, 1962 Valley Mills, Bosque County, Texas

Parents:
Isaac Brock (1787 – 1909)
Sarah Jane Sparks Brock (1833 – 1907)

Spouse:
Edward Lawson Drahn (1861 – 1951)

Children:
Mollie Carrie Drahn Golden (1888 – 1968)
Carlie Lottie Drahn Freedman (1891 – 1974)
Henrietta O Drahn Crawford (1894 – 1976)
Maude Lela Drahn Carter (1901 – 2000)
Allie Lee Drahn Bridger (1907 – 1953)

Funeral services for pioneer McLennan and Bosque County resident Mrs. E. L. Drahn will be at 3 p.m. today at China Spring Baptist Church. Burial at China Spring Cemetery. Mrs. Drahn died at the home of her daughter in Valley Mills. She was 94. She leaves 126 direct descendants.

Mrs. Drahn was born in Rusk County. She came to McLennan County as a child with her parents, the late Isaac and Sarah Jane Brock and had lived here and in Bosque County since. Her father lived in three centuries.

Mrs. Drahn had been a member of the Methodist Church since she was 17. She was married Oct.9, 1884, to E. L. Drahn at China Spring. He died at the age of 90 Nov. 8, 1951.

Survivors are two sons, Jeff L. Drahn and W. T. Drahn; four daughters, Mrs. Mollie Golden, Mrs. D. E. Bell of Fort Worth, Mrs. Henrietta Crawford of Waco and Mrs. L. O. Roenfeldt of Pampa; 20 grandchildren.

 

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