EVENING SENTINEL, Shenandoah, Iowa, Wednesday, November 1, 1926

MRS. BELLE DUKE

Belle Oppenheimer, daughter of Jacob and Mary Oppenheimer, was born in Hillboro, Ohio, January 5, 1845,, and died at Denver, Colorado, October 29, 1926, aged 81 years, 9 months and 24 days.

Her early life was spent in Illinois, coming to Iowa when about 20 years of age.  She was married in Iowa City January 26, 1869, to James C. Duke, who died February 28, 1917.  To them were born 4 children, Edward M., Stansberry, Missouri, Ella M. Earhart, Omaha, Nebraska, Clifford W., and Iva B. Boston, both of Denver, who survive her.  She is also survived by eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild; two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Bundick (Burdick?), Shenandoah, Iowa, and Mrs. Libbie Dickerson, Adams, Nebraska, and one brother, Milton Oppenheimer of Wiggins, Colorado.

Mrs. Duke united with the church when a girl and has been a faithful member all her life.  She was also a member of the Women's Relief Corps.

About nine years ago she went to Denver to make her home and has spent the remainder of her life there.  She gradually declined and passed away quietly and without suffering Friday last.

Evening Sentinel, Shenandoah, Iowa

 Tuesday, March 14, 1961

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR

CHARLES DUKE HELD AT FARRAGUT

Farragut - Funeral services for Charles H. Duke were held Tuesday at 2 o'clock at the Campbell Funeral Home.

He was born October 7, 1879, and died March 12 at the Veterans Hospital in Omaha, where he had been for four months.  He enlisted and served in World War I.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. John Duke of Osceola, Missouri, he was one of six children.

He came to the Farragut community and worked as a farm hand, hunted and trapped.  He stayed with Homer Carl, his third cousin, until he purchased a home in Farragut.

He united with the Congregational Church in 1901.  Mr. Duke was preceded in death by his immediate family.

Keith Bickett sang two selections accompanied by Mrs. Charles Herriman.

Casket bearers were Harold Penwell, R. H. Henstorf, Ralph Pease, Delbert Roberts, Charles Herriman and Enos Warner.

Interment was in Farragut Cemetery, with the Sidney Legion Post giving the military graveside rites.

Evening Sentinel, Shenandoah, Iowa,

 Friday, December 3, 1937

C. W. DUKE DIES IN DENVER

Clifford W. Duke, formerly of Shenandoah and Clarinda, died at his home in Denver, Wednesday, December 1st, from an abdominal cancer.  Few men had a wider acquaintance in the county than Mr. Duke.

He served in the post office at Shenandoah during the entire period that C. N. Marvin was postmaster, from July 1, 1897, to January 1, 1905.  He helped Mr. Marvin move the post office equipment across the street from the north side of Sheridan Avenue to the south side between the Mentier grocery store and W. H. Replogle's Jewelry Store.

He started in as general delivery clerk and was promoted to assistant postmaster, which position he held during the period when the rural free delivery and city free delivery were established.

After that, Mr. Duke was elected county auditor of Page County which position he held for several terms.

Later he moved with his family to Colorado, where for several years, he conducted a dairy and poultry farm in the suburbs of the city of Denver.

He was taken ill with stomach trouble several months ago, which developed into cancer from which he died.

Many of the older citizens will remember his father, J. C. Duke, a civil war veteran and republican politician in Shenandoah for many years.  He belonged to the same regiment as Mr. Marvin's father and was wounded in the same battle at which Mr. Marvin's father was killed, at Vicksburg, so it was natural for the long time close relationship of the two men.

Clifford Duke's wife was related to the Higgins and Oppenheimer families west of Shenandoah.  He is survived by his wife, Cressie, and three children - Mildred, now married and living in Oregon; Vernon, a television operator in New York City, and Richard.  Two sisters also survive, Ella Duke Earhart of Omaha and Mrs. Iva Boston of near Denver.

Ed. M. Duke, of this city, an older half brother, commander of the Spanish-American War veterans of the vicinity, is now being treated in the veteran's hospital in Des Moines where he underwent an operation recently.

Funeral services for Clifford Duke will be held in Denver Saturday at 1 o'clock at the Hoffman Mortuary.

E. M. Duke went to Denver a few weeks ago to visit his brother and upon his return stated that Clifford was seriously ill.

Mrs. Duke and her son, Richard, will probably continue to reside on the farm at Denver and conduct the dairy business as formerly.  Mr. Duke's age at time of death must have been about sixty.

His passing is quite a shock to Mr. Marvin, his long associate and senior by twenty years, as well as to his many other friends in this county.

Evening Sentinel, Shenandoah, Iowa, dated 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.

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.

The Sentinel-Post of Shenandoah, Page County, Iowa dated Friday, March 2, 1917

J. C. DUKE

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.