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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. |
