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Charles Hinton Drake,
physician, born 1918, Tattnall County, Georgia; quandam MAJOR United
States Air Force, Bronze Star, Croix de Guerre with Silver Star,
despatches, educated Emory University, Medical College of Georgia (MD,
1951), married 1946 Estelle Carolyn Nail, co-heiress of James Benjamin
Nail (vide entry for Estelle C. Nail), born 1918, Tattnall County,
Georgia and has issue:
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i. Charles
Edward Francis Drake, recipient of a Scottish grant of arms in 2006,
vide the parallel entry. |
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ii. Carol
Louise Drake, C.P.A., educated Medical College of Georgia (BSN,
1977, Magna Cum Laude), Georgia Southern University (BAA, 1987,
Magna Cum Laude); member American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Daughters of the
American Revolution. |
The composition of
these arms was developed without the benefit of later genealogical
discoveries about the family, and therefore, was an entirely new
design.
Aside from the obvious canting reference to the name Drake, the dragon
in the crest symbolizes a connection to Isle of Wight County,
Virginia, where the armiger's family first settled in America. A green
dragon or wyvern was borne by Sir Richard Worsley, who was granted
land in Isle of Wight plantation and was one of its first settlers.
Worsley was from Appuldercombe in the Isle of Wight in England, and it
was his place of origin and connection which inspired the name for the
Virginia county.
The idea for the oak trees began as oak slips, representing the rank
insignia of a Major in the United States Air Force, and commemorating
the armiger's service in the Second World War. He was assigned to the
391st Bomb Group of the 9th Air Force and served in England, France,
and Belgium. The oak slips evolved into trees because the combination
of a dragon and a tree with golden fruit called to mind the Garden of
Hesperides. |
