Evening Sentinel, Shenandoah, Iowa
The Sentinel-Post of Shenandoah, Page County, Iowa dated Friday, March 2, 1917
SOLDIER IN DISTINGUISHED CO.
Illness of Few Days of Pneumonia Was Fatal to Veteran
Who was Packing to Move to Denver to Live
HE WAS OHIOAN BY BIRTH
Besides Three Children, an Adopted Son Edwin M. Duke of Henderson, Ia., Survives Father
An illness of a few days from pneumonia was fatal to J. C. Duke, a veteran of the Civil War. Mr. and Mrs. Duke were packing, preparatory to moving to Denver, Colo., to make their home while their son Clifford Duke moved to a ranch nearby. Mr. Duke was 74 years old. He was a member of the Twenty-second Regiment of Iowa Infantry which won distinguished honor at the siege of Vicksburg.
The death of Mr. Duke occurred at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the home of his brother-in-law, Eli Oppenheimer, on Nishna Road. The funeral will be conducted by the Rev. F. W. Simpson at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the Methodist church. The burial will be at Rose Hill cemetery. It is planned to have members of the Grand Army of Republic of which he was a member, act as honorary pall bearers.
Licking County, Ohio, was the birth place of Mr. Duke, his birthday being September 27, 1842. He moved with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Duke, when he was seven years old to Johnson County, Iowa. A brother and sister out of the family of six children survive the brother. Coming to Iowa, the Dukes made their hom near Iowa City. When the call for volunteers came, he enlisted and served three years afterward.
He was married in January, 1867, to Miss Belle Oppenheimer at Iowa City and they moved to Southwest Iowa to make their home. For twenty-six years they have lived in Shenandoah. Three children survive the father: Mrs. A. H. Earhart of Omaha, Mrs. Iva Boston of Denver, and Clifford W. Duke of Clarinda, former county auditor. One adopted child, Edwin M. Duke, lives at Henderson, Iowa. All four of them are in Shenandoah for the funeral as well as the son-in-law, Mr. Earhart, of Omaha.
