A Time Line for William Lovick Drake

Family Search sent me another email today with a timeline for one of my ancestors.  This time it was for my Great Uncle, William Lovick Drake.  

This is my connection to William Lovick Drake:

Liz (that's me!)

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Gilbert Earl Tapley, 1928-2008 (my father)

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Nealie Vermell Drake Tapley, 1895-1970 (my grandmother)

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her brother, 

William Lovick Drake, 1892-1912 (my great-uncle)

Time Line for the life of William Lovick Drake 

1892 Age 0	Birth	02 Oct 1892 Emanuel County, Georgia
1893 Age 1	Historical Event	The Last Public Hanging in Georgia was on 28 Sep 1893. The General Assembly prohibited public executions in December 1893. Prior to this law, Georgians commonly traveled to witness scheduled public executions.
1900 Age 7	Historical Event	Trading Wildlife. This law prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that have been taken, possessed, transported, or sold illegally.
1900 Age 7	Residence	Lothair, Zaidee, Montgomery County, Georgia
1906 Age 13	Historical Event	The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September 22 through September 24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American men. Fueled by pre-existing racial tensions, these reports enraged white men who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next few days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were killed and many were injured.
1910 Age 17	Residence	Emanuel County, Georgia
1912 Age 20	Death	William Lovick Drake passed away on 17 Dec 1912 in Emanuel County, Georgia of Typhoid Fever.
1912	Burial	Lovick was buried on 20 Dec 1912 at Poplar Springs Methodist Church Cemetery, Adrian, Johnson County, Georgia

 As you can see in his obituary, Typhoid Fever swept through the family that year, but only Lovick and his oldest sister, Hattie Drake Wise (1884-1912) did not survive.  However, it must have been unimaginably hard to lose two children within five months of each other.  The obituary even mentions that the family suffered for seven months after Lovick's death.  From all that I have seen, Lovick was a good boy who was probably headed into a career in the ministry like his father, and his death so young was a tragedy.

(Please note that the obituary states Lovick's birthday as September 2, but his headstone and all other records I have seen state October 2.)