Drusilla A. (Richhart) FAGAN - Corn

Added by gracieduffy on 5 Oct 2007

There are questions as to how Drusilla met Evans.  It is known that she made many trips to Pickaway County and Ross County where her Funk and Richhart relatives lived.  She went by train to visit them.  Possibly Drusilla met Evans Clinton Fagan on the train or at the depot in Crawford County where she switched trains.  The passenter train, railroad track went from Kosciusko County, Indiana to mid-Ohio, then  down the State of Ohio through Crawford County, (Oceola) Ohio and continued down through Picaway County and Ross County.  ..........Drusilla and Evans were married November 11, 1856 in Wabash, Indiana by a Mr. J.P.M. Rowan.  They then went back to Ohio where Evans lived.  They became parents to Henry Clinton in September 1857 and to Israel E. in May, 1859.  Baby Isreal was one week old when Evans was shot and killed.  .....  There was a story passed down from generation to generation that "Evans was a gambler.  He would ride his horse into town and play cards at the town tavern.  The story was that he won a lot of money (in the thousands) and as he was headed home with his winnings he was met by robbers. robbed and killed.  His horse ran home without him and his family went out looking for him.  They found him under a stone bridge, dead."......Years later we learned of a different story.  (The newspaper clipping is attached in 'pictures' under Evans Clinton Fagan).....After the 'hearing' Drusilla went back to Indiana where she grew up.  In the 1860 census she is 21 years old. a widow, living in Wayne Twp.  Kosciusko County, Indiana.  She is a Laborer (perhaps a housekeeper, cook, ?) living with her two little boys and her little sister Elizabeth.  Elizabeth was probably helping Drusilla take care of the boys while she worked......................December 31, 1860 Dursilla remarried. (Kosciusko County, Indiana Marriages  1850-1874  B  353)  ... Her husbands name was Marion Francis Corns.  She had four more children:  Della, Francis (Frank), Maude, and Manford..............................Notes of George Bosse:  (great grandson of Druscilla on the Corns side) :  ".......Drusilla (Richhart) was born at the present site of Vawter Park on the south side of Lake Wawasee in 1838 when the area was wilderness.  The Flatbelly (Miami) Indian Reservation was very likely the east property line of the farm and Indians were still in the area as late as 1842.  I recall her telling about the deer, bear, wolves and wild pigs that roamed the forest when she was a girl.  She related that her mother died when she was only eleven years old and that she then had to raise the younger siblings.  However, the census of 1850 shows that her father had remarried within a year after the death of Drusillas mother.  Knowing great-grandmother it is easy to surmise that she resented the 'interloper; and chose to ignore her existence.  She said that she had only a few months formal schooling, however she was well informed and could carry a conversation about current events very well.  She was abstentions regarding tobacco and alcohol....."  ...1850 Census:  Kosciusco,  ANCilla  ----1850 Census Federal:  DruCilla A.,  ----1860 Census Federal Census :  DruSCilla  B.,  ------1870 Federal Census.  Drusilla. -----Obiturary,  Drusilla, ----- Death Certificate,  Drusilla.............    No inheritance was left to Drusilla.  Her grandfather Frederick FUNK was the guardian of Drusilla's mothers trust.  Drusilla was married and pregnant in 1857 when the 'letter was drawn up from Sarahs (mother of Drusilla)  estate'.  Her brother George C. and twin sisters were left inheritances.   [Early Guardianship and Estate Indexes of Kosciusko County, Indiana. Compiled by Marjorie Priser]...........Letter from Linda:  (Georges daughter.  She is the gggranddaughter of Drusilla on the Corns side):  "The Funk book was published in 1899.  My Great-grandmother, Della, gave the book to my father since he was the one most interested in the family history.  The majority of that book is on Bishop Henry Funck, I'm guessing either a brother or cousin of Frederick Funk Sr.  They called our line the Frederick Funk Family of Virginia.  It only goes as far as Drusilla.  No mention of her marrying or having children. " ..........Drusilla died December, 1929.  She is buried in Syracuse Cemetery.  Sec 1, row 19, space 8 - next to her mothers grave.  The name of the headstone is Drusilla A. Corns with her husband Marion.