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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.
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