Evening Sentinel, Shenandoah, Iowa
Monday, December 4, 1950
E. M. DUKE, WAR VETERAN DIES AT 81
Edward M. Duke, 81, died Sunday afternoon at Hand hospital. He had been in ill health for some time.
Mr. Duke, a Spanish-American war veteran, lived in southwest Iowa all of his life. He had resided in Shenandoah since 1933.
He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Joseph Allen (Iva Marian), two sisters, Mrs. Ella Earhart of Omaha and Mrs. Iva Boston of Denver. Another close relative is Homer Carl of west of Shenandoah.
Mr. Duke, among other things, is remembered by older residents as a turn of the century census taker. Much of the census taking was done on foot then and at night the canvasser would stay with farm families. Through his census tramps, Mr. Duke got to know this section of southwest Iowa very well.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Harding's Funeral Home. Another service will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Methodist church in Henderson. The Rev. A. T. Maberry will officiate at both.
Interment will be in Henderson cemetery.
Source:Duke Family Obituaries
transcribed and submitted by: Susan Glasgo: ozarksue3541@yahoo.com
Evening Sentinel, Shenandoah, Iowa
Thursday, December 7, 1950
EDWARD DUKE RITES HELD
Services for Edward M. Duke were held at two places Tuesday afternoon. At two p.m. a service was held at Harding's Funeral Home and at three p.m. there was another service at the Methodist church in Henderson. The Rev. A. T. Maberry was in charge of both.
In charge of flowers were Mrs. Charles Bacon and Mrs. Vesta Niday. Interment was in Henderson cemetery. Spanish-American war veterans attended the service at Harding's Funeral Home in a group.
Edward Marion Duke was born in Stuart, Iowa, June 6, 1871, and died December 3.
He was the son of James Nelson and Mary Carl Nelson. His father died in Ed's early childhood and at the age of five years he became the adopted son of James C. and Belle Duke.
With his foster parents he moved to Mills County, Iowa, in 1878 and located northeast of Emerson. Here he lived and grew to manhood.
When war clouds gathered in 1898, he was quick to answer his country's call for volunteers. He enlisted in Company C, 61st Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry and participated in all the campaigns and services of this regiment in the Spanish War and in the Philippines until the muster out of the regiment in November 1899. After that he returned to his Iowa home.
On November 19, 1903, he was united in marriage with Anna Caroline Asell. Shortly after their marriage, they pioneered on a homestead in western Nebraska.
In 1922 they located in Stanberry, Missouri, where he was employed as a machinist by the Wabash railway.
In 1933 they moved to Shenandoah, where they have since made their home.
Besides his wife, he leaves of his near relatives, his daughter, Mrs. Iva Marian Allen of Livingston, Wisconsin, his sisters, Mrs. Iva Boston of Denver, Colorado and Mrs. A. H. Earhart, and his cousins Homer Carl of Farragut, Earl and Hallie Oppenheimer of Shenandoah.
