Dake families of 
	      Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri

	In the course of my research on the Dake families of Arkansas,
Oklahoma, and Missouri, I found that practically all the lines except
two had something in common.  The original Dake settler in that 
particular area came out of Tennessee.  One might jump to the 
immediate conclusion that they all came out of the same family and it 
now appears that this is the case.

	Records show that a majority of the Dakes in the 
Arkansas-Oklahoma area are descendants of either James Wesley Dake of 
Johnson County, Arkansas or of Jonathan Augustus Dake of Sebastian 
County, Arkansas.  In the case of the Missouri-Oklahoma Dakes, it 
appears that they are descendants of William A. or Henry Dake.  There 
is little doubt that James W., Jonathan A., William A., or Henry 
Dake were all sons of Johnson and Rebecca Dake.  I have not, 
however, found documentary evidence to prove this.

	Turning my research to Tennessee, a spent over a year hunting 
and searching for the birthplace of these men in Tennessee.  With no 
clue to follow, it was like hunting for the proverbial needle in a 
haystack, until I acquired the service record of some Dakes who 
served in the Civil War from Tennessee.

	In each case the records indicated that they enlisted in eastern 
Tennessee Counties.  In one service record the name of Meigs County 
was mentioned, so the needle was found.  It is now evident that 
William, Jonathan, and James Dake came out of Meigs County and the 
adjoining County of McMinn.

	There are at this writing, at least two large families of Dakes 
living in Meigs and McMinn Counties, Tennessee.  I have corresponded 
recently with one Ted Dake, age 72, living in Meigs County and one 
Sam Dake, age 90, living in McMinn County.  I have sufficient records 
to show that they are the same line as the Arkansas, Oklahoma, and 
Missouri Dakes.

	In the federal census of 1880, William A. Dake of Miller County, 
Missouri, gives the birthplace of his parents as South Carolina.  In 
the census of 1850 for Tennessee, Rebecca Dake is listed as living in 
Meigs County with five children.  Mahala, age 22, Phillip, age 20, 
(Civil War) Jonathan, age 18, Rebecca Ann, age 16, Asbury, age 14, 
and Alex, age 6. Rebecca gives her age as 55, born in South 
Carolina. Living around her in the 23rd census district of 
Tennessee, were a William A. Dake and family, John Dake and family 
and Henry Dake, wife and son George. James would not be listed since 
he left Tennessee before 1850.

	According to census records, James Wesley Dake was born in 
Tennessee in 1825, moved to Morsehead Township, Johnson County, 
Arkansas about 1846, married Elvie Trotter about 1847 and they were 
parents of a son, J. Henry born in 1848.  It is tradition in the 
family that Elvie died in birth in 1861 and that James served in the 
Civil War, was wounded, returned home and was killed by bushwhackers 
a short time later.  At any rate, they were both dead by 1870.  They 
lie together in unmarked graves in a cemetery in Johnson County.  In 
1870 Henry Dake was living in Morsehead Township with one Almeda 
Trotter and her family, probably a widowed aunt.  Caroline was living 
with the Wires family, Sarah was living with a family of Jacobs and 
Nancy and C. Robert were living with Lucinda Trotter and her family, 
most likely another aunt.  There seems to have been an abundance of 
homes without husband or father in 1870.  Most likely the result of 
the Civil War.

(John Henry Dake 22, Caroline 17, Sarah 15, Nancy 12, C. Robert 9)

				DAKE OF TENNESSEE

	Jonathan Dake born about 1790--probably South Caroline. Married 
about 1812, in Tennessee. Died before 1850.
	Rebecca Dake, born 1795 in South Carolina according to Census of
1850 for Tennessee.  Maiden name possibly Green, Albert or Finley.

				CHILDREN

	 William A. Dake, born-- census records show 1812 and 1816,
probably Wilson County, Tennessee.  Married about 1835 to Mary
(Polly) Knox.  Moved to Miller Kennedy, Missouri about 1860.  Died 
1889 Miller County.
	 Jackson G. Dake, born 1817, according to census records, known
as Jack Dake.  Listed in the census of 1850 has John Dake.  Married
Mary Ann Riddle, 24 Dec, 1840 by a Geo. Yost, Meth. Min.  Died-- still
living in census of 1880, Meigs County, Tennessee.
	 Sarah C. Dake, bore about 1820.  Married Samuel L. Riddle, 17 
Aug, 1841 in McMinn County, Tennessee.  Dake of death unknown.
	 Henry J. Dake born 1822 according to census of 1850.  Married
Lidia Lucindy Knox 17 August 1846 by Thomas B. Weller Min. of gospel.
No record of Henry or Lidia in Miller County, but records of his
children there.
	 James W. Dake, born 1825 according to Arkansas census records.
Married about 1847 to Elvie Trotter, Morsehead Township, Johnson
County, Arkansas.  Died before 1870.
	 Mahala Dake, born 1827 or 28.  Appears to have been a spinster.
Living with brother Jack Dake in McMinn County, Tennessee in census
of 1860.
	 Phillip M. Dake, born 1830, Meigs County, Tennessee, according
to census records.  Married Elizabeth Adams, 13 October 1853 in Meigs
County, Tennessee.  Descendants still living in McMinn County.
	 Jonathan M. Dake, born 1832, Meigs, County, Tennessee, married
Jane Weaver.  Moved to Texas before the Civil War.  Settled in 
Sebastian County, Arkansas after the war.
	Rebecca Ann Dake, born 1836 Meigs County.  No further record.

	Asbury Dake, born 1838, Meigs County.  No further record.

	Alexander Dake, born 1844, Meigs County.  No further record.

	Jonathan Dake shown to be living in Wilson County, Tennessee in 
June of 1817.  Other Dakes, probably brothers of Jonathan living in 
Wilson County in census of 1830.

	The following paragraph was added-- handwritten.  In census of
1880 William, Jackson and Phillip show the birthplace of both 
parents has South Carolina.


	Jonathan Dake was born in Tennessee in 1832, still living with
his mother in Meigs County in 1850.  He moved to Texas in the 1850's.
Said to have been an officer in the Civil War.  Have not yet found
his service record.  He married Jane Weaver in Tennessee.  Their two
oldest children, Charity and Louise born in Texas.  Jonathan and
family moved to Sebastian County, Ark. immediately after Civil War.
Lived in that county the remainder of his life.  died 1913.  Jonathan
and Jane raised a large family, most of whom eventually moved into 
the State of Oklahoma.  

	William A. Dake moved to Miller County, Missouri about 1860.  He
and his wife Polly moved with the younger children leaving several of
older children back in Tennessee.  Son James served in Civil War from 
Meigs County.  Sons George, Elija, Marion and Benjamin moved to
Missouri with them and here was a situation which stumped me.  Living
in Richwood Township, Miller County, Missouri near William Dake, was
one George W. Dake, age 30, and another George W. Dake, age 20.  It's
not normal practice to give two of your children the same name.
Obviously one of them is not a son of William.  It now appears that
George W. Dake, age 20 was the oldest child of Henry and Lydia Dake.
Henry and Lydia apparently died back in Tennessee and George, his
sister Melissa, and brother James moved to Miller County, Missouri
with their uncle William Dake.  George W. Dake married Emily McKee
and they were the parents of James Henry and Levi Dake.

	In September of 1850 Henry and Lydia and infant son, George,
were living in the same home with one John and Jane Finley and their
children.  The Finleys and Dakes were about the same age.  May have 
been related but no proof.  The names Finley, Patton, Riddle, Floyd,
Oliver and others were common names in eastern Tennessee in the 
1800s.  Several of those names can be found in the Tennessee Dake 
family.  You may recall that Davy Crockett was born in eastern
Tennessee and his first wife was Polly Finley.

	Most of the genealogy contained in this synopsis is based on 
circumstantial evidence and is not to be considered an accurate
lineage or her rather not a proven lineage.  Much more Tennessee research 
remains to be done.  Also a check of the census of 1800 for South 
Carolina which will be another needle in the haystack since we don't 
know which County to check.  No Dakes in census 1800 S.C.

	The two old Dake gentleman I've been corresponding with in
Tennessee, state that their ancestors were of German descent but came
to America from Ireland.  I have record of one Michael Dake and his 
brother Frederick Dake, who are said to have come to America from
Ireland shortly after the Revolutionary War.  They are listed in
Washington County, Pennsylvania in the census of 1790.  So they
obviously came to this country between 1783 and 1790.  There is no
record that they ever owned land in Pennsylvania.  They apparently rented for 
a few years and then moved on.  I know that Michael Dake moved to the 
midwest and had descendants in Ill., Wisc., and Neb. in the
nineteenth century.  It is reported that the two brother split up and
when different ways.  So it is very possible that Frederick moved
into the southland.  Again, no proof.

	Mentioned to families of Dakes which were exceptions to the 
Tennessee lines.  Two Dake brothers, out of the new England Dakes, 
both of whom were doctors, settled in Little Rock shortly after the
Civil War.  The other family descends from one John Dake who came to
Virginia from Germany before the Revolutionary War.  There are many
descendants of this family in Missouri and Oklahoma.  The Virginia
line being one of more separate lines of Dakes out of Germany to
America. The Dakes of Wright County, Missouri.

	 	 	 	 	Leslie A. Green
					1972