Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Shelby Co.

CAPT. STEPHEN T. DRANE, a prominent farmer and citizen of Shelby County,
Ky., was born in that county January 25, 1808.  He is a son of Stephen and
Priscilla Sprague Crabb Drane, who were born in Prince George County, Md.
His father was born in 1768 and died in September, 1844.  He settled on the
farm where our subject now resides in 1801.  He was prominent in the
military circles of his day, being a militia captain.  Mr. Drane never
attended college, but received a practical education.  During the war he
was a decided Union man.  He married, on May 1, 1828, Miss Birthia Ford, a
native of Shelby County, and a daughter of Spence Ford (deceased) and Susan
(Bright) Ford.  They were natives of South Carolina, and came to Shelby
County, Ky., about 1796, settling on the headwaters of Fox Run Creek, and
in early times operated a horse-power mill which ground both wheat and
corn, and "hand-bolted" and supplied the people.  Mr. Drane has six
children living: Edward, Albert G. Merritt, Leonard, Mary, Wm. P.; Stephen
and Richard are deceased.  Capt. Drane represented the county in the Lower
House of the Legislature in 1856 and 1857.  Previous to this he served in
the capacity of justice of the peace of the county.  His farm near
Eminence contains 419 acres.

Drane Ford Bright
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Prince_George-MD SC

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