DAVID S. DROKE was born in Sullivan County, Tenn., December 22, 1829, and was reared a farmer. He came to this county with his parents in the fall of 1849, and assisted his father until about 1852, when he married Miss Eleanor, daughter of Thomas and Phebe (,Gadd) Barnes, and born in Ohio, in 1833. One son was born to this union- Jacob F., who died when a year old. For six years after marriage, Mr. Droke resided in Carroll County, and then purchased his present home of forty-three acres, six miles south of Idaville. Mr. Droke is a Democrat, and has served as School Director and Road Master. He is an anti-secret society man, but in home politics votes for the man of his choice, rather than from party dictation. He has used his influence to induce a number of friends at the South to come North, as he thinks the latter section possesses greater advantages for farming than the former. He and wife are firm members of the United Presbyterian Church. His parents, David and Rebecca (Shaver) Droke, were both natives of Tennessee, but of German extraction.

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