Green Reginald DUKE

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CENSUS RECORDS

1860 Federal Census
Name: Green R Duke
Age in 1860: 35
Birth Year: abt 1825
Birthplace: Georgia
Home in 1860: Rome, Floyd, Georgia
Gender: Male
Post Office: Rome
Household Members:
Green R Duke 35
Emeline Duke 30
Joseph Duke 12
Elizabeth Duke 10
Martin M Duke 8
George W Duke 6
J Alfred Duke 2
Nancy Duke 78

1870 Federal Census
Name: Green R Duke
Age in 1870: 45
Birth Year: abt 1825
Birthplace: Georgia
Home in 1870: Subdivision 49, Floyd, Georgia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Rome
Household Members:
Green R Duke 45
Harriett J Duke 26
Martin M Duke 17
Geo W Duke 14
James A Duke 12
Julia A Duke 10
Emeline Duke 7
Green R Duke 5
David E Duke 2
Mahala E Stephens 8

1880 Federal Census
Name: Green Duke
Age: 55
Birth Year: abt 1825
Birthplace: Georgia
Home in 1880: Rome, Floyd, Georgia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Harriet Duke
Father's Birthplace: Georgia
Mother's Birthplace: Georgia
Occupation: Farmer
Household Members:
Green Duke 55
Harriet Duke 38
Alfred Duke 21
Julia Duke 19
Emmiline Duke 15
Greenough Duke 14
David Duke 10
Eugene Duke 9
Lucy Duke 8
Netta Duke 7
Artelia Duke 4
Charles Duke 1 month

MILITARY SERVICE

He served in the Confederate Army. He fought at the BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA two times being injured both times.

ARMY OF TENN. CSA BUTTS COUNTY, GA. BAILEY'S VOLUNTEERS

DUKE, Green R. -- Private Sept. 25, 1861. Discharged, disability, May 10, 1862. Reenlisted May 10, 1862. Wounded at Chickamauga, Ga. Sept. 19, 1863. Captured at Nashville, Tenn. Dec. 16, 1864. Released at Camp Chase, O. June 12, 1865.

HISTORICAL RECORDS

Source: NOTES ON THE GREEN R. DUKE FAMILY by Douglas P. Reid

Green's family settled in the Central Grove District (Armuchee) of Floyd County, near his brothers, James and David, sometime before 1860. He donated land and $90 for the Pleasant Valley North Baptist Church. His son, Martin, later gave land to the school board for a school house -- the Central Grove School or "Duke School House" -- on 19 May 1900. Julia Ann Duke's husband, William McKenzie, was a preacher at the Floyd Springs Baptist Church above Armuchee.

Green R. Duke's property in 1890 consisted of 151 acres, a black mare, a mule, 2 milk cows, 5 hogs, 53 sheep, two wagons, farming and household items. He farmed cotton.

Green bought the Armuchee property (160 acres) from his brother, David, on 4 December 1852. He was present in a land transaction of Thomas Duke on 6 January 1850. (Thomas was 47 in 1850, and was probably an uncle or brother). On 20 January 1862, Green R. was appointed administrator for his brother, David's, estate.

In the Civil War, Green R. Duke was injured three times, and as a result, he required pain medication for the rest of his life. His tombstone inscription says he was "a good man."

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Source: A HISTORY OF RONE & FLOYD CO. BY BATTEY_Encyclopedic Section, Page 365

Green's second wife is thought to have been a Dellinger, and married a Holland, who died in the Civil War.__Third Corporal -- Jno. S. Holland.

CENTRAL GROVE DISTRICT

This part of Floyd County was settled in 1854. Jimmie Duke and his family being the first settlers. Mr. Duke bought 160 acres of land at the intersection of the O'Brien and Central Grove roads for a gun valued at $25.

His son, Lumpkin Duke, was a prominent man in the neighborhood and raised a large family, the boys of which engaged in the saw mill business. Two of his sons, Lumpkin and Tom Duke, are now living in Rome and are still engaged in the same kind of work.

Jim Duke's brother Green R. Duke, settled on what is known as the Green Duke place in 1860. His son, Martin M. Duke, who is now living in this neighborhood, is the oldest living descendant of the original settlers. Martin M. Duke gave the land on which the Central Grove School was built in 1900. The institution was known as the Duke School House for many years.

Mrs. Henry O. Littlejohn, one of his daughters, lives near the school. Henry O. Littlejohn, who served the Berry School for the longest continous period of any of its employees, in charge of much of the carpentry work and the superintendent who built all of the log houses.

LAND RECORDS

The Plat exhibited above represents the survey made by me for Green R Duke on the 4th of March 1892. The parcels of land forming the farm of same, are in the 23d & 24th Districts of orginally Cherokee, now Floyd County, Georgia, as shown in the Plat. The area of the whole lot, 283-2-3, in One Hundred & Seventy Nine acres and a half (179 1/2). Deducting Forty acres, along the eastern part of said lot, belonging to W. M. Brett, there remains One Hundred & Thirty Nine and a half acres (139 1/2) owned by Green R. Duke. Said Duke, a also, owns Eleven & Ninety Five Hundredths acres in the N. W. Corner of Lot Three, Twenty Third District & Third Section, as shown in the Plat, making an aggregate in both parcel's of 151 1/2 acres, owned by Green R. Duke. I certify that all the particulars stated are correct to the best of my know- ledge and belief.

I value said Homestead at One Thousand Dollars ($1000).

J. A. Arnold, Sr.,(County Surveyor of F.[Floyd] Co., Ga.)
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this March 9th 1892
H. J. Johnson, Ordinary
Filed March 9 1892
H. J. Johnson, Ordinary

WILL

To the Ordinary of Said County, the Petition of Green R Duke a resident of said County, Shows that he is a head of a family, consisting of himself, his wife, Harriett E Duke, 45 years old, and six minor Children, to wit, - Lucy Ann Duke 18 yrs old, Unetta Duke 16 yrs old, Artelia Duke 12 yrs old, Charles Duke 11 yrs old, Joanna Duke 7 yrs old, and William D Duke 5 yrs of age. And that he desires under the Constitution of Georgia, and the Statutes in reference thereto, to have laid off and set apart as a homestead for the use of said family, on and out of 151 1/2 acres of land, the property of Petitioner, Situated in said County and bounded on the West by the Lands of W M Brett, on the North be Charley Weeks, on the South by Mrs. John Hogan, on the East by the lands of Smalley. 120 acres of lot 283, being and lying in 24th Dist and 3rd Section, and 8 acres off of lot No 3 in 23rd & 3rd District, Floyd County, Georgia, which Petitioner values at 800 Dollars.

Petitioner also desires to have exempt and set apart the personal property embraced in Schedule "A." Hereunto attached to which reference is made as a part of this petition. Said Schedule Contains a minute and accurate Description of all the personal property belonging to your petitioner. Schedule "B." Hereunto attached contains a correct list of the names and post-offices of the Creditors of petitioner.

Your Petitioner prays that on order may issue to the County Surveyor of Said County, requiring him to lay off and make a plat of a homestead for said family out of the lands above Described and make return thereof in accordance with law. Your Petitioner asks that the usual notice in such cases may issue, and be published as required by law, and your petitioner will ever pray.

Green R Duke

Schedule "A" Personal

1 Black Mare 75.00
Dark Iron Gray horse mule 50.00
2 Milk Cows 20.00
5 Head Hogs 8.00
53 Head Sheep 53.00
1 two Horse wagon 10.00
1 one Horse wagon 10.00
Farming tools 5.00
50 Bushels Corn 25.00
Household & Kitchen furniture 50.00

Schedule "B" Creditors
W M Brett, Rome GA
Toney Duke, Rome GA

C. A. Thornwell Atty for M Lauren, Rome, Ga.GEORGIA FLOYD COUNTY)

In person comes before the undersigned, Green R Duke, who on oath, says; that the statements contained in the foregoing petition are true, that the schedule contains a minute and accurate description of all the real and per- sonal property owned by applicant, and that the list of creditors thereto attached in complete, and thier post-offices correctly given so far as they are known to applicant.

Sworn to and subscribed

Green R Duke

before me this Feby 24th 1892)
H. J. Johnson, Ordinary

Notice published, and written notice mailed to M F McLauren as required by law, This the 24th day of Feby 1892.

H. J. Johnson, Ordinary
GEORGIA FLOYD COUNTY

Personally; comes before the undersignd Green R Duke, who, upon oath, says that he has given notice in writing personnaly to W M Brett & C A Thomas will agent for McLauren, of the filing of his application for homestead & exemption and of the day of hearing the same in terms of the law in such cases made and provided.

Sworn to & Subscribed) before me this March 17th 1892

G. R. Duke

H. J. Johnson, Ordinary


Buried:
Grave location, tombstone photo, and portrait:
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Green married Nancy Emeline Sharp Sept. 2, 1847, Floyd Co. GA. Nancy was born 1829, Abbeville Co. SC; died Sep., 1863, Floyd Co. GA; was buried , New Armuchee Cemetery, Armuchee, Floyd Co. GA. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
Georgia Marriages to 1850
Name: Nancy E. Sharp
Spouse: Green R. Duke
Marriage Date: 2 Sep 1847
Marriage County: Floyd
Marriage State: Georgia

1. Joseph Cornelius DUKE was born 10 Jun 1848, Floyd Co. GA; died 26 Jan 1930, DeKalb Co. AL; was buried , Mount Moriah Cemetery, Guest, DeKalb Co. AL.
2. Nancy Elizabeth DUKE was born 04 Nov 1849, Floyd Co. GA; died 15 Sep 1925, Davis Co. UT; was buried , Clinton City Cemetery, Clinton, Davis Co. UT.
3. Martin Miller DUKE was born 04 Jul 1852, Floyd Co. GA; died 16 Apr 1935, Floyd Co. GA; was buried , New Armuchee Cemetery, Armuchee, Floyd Co. GA.
4. Geroge W. DUKE was born ca 1854, Floyd Co. GA.
5. James Alfred DUKE was born ca 1858, Floyd Co. GA.
6. Julia Ann DUKE was born 10 Sep 1860, Floyd Co. GA; died 17 Jun 1944, Floyd Co. GA; was buried , Floyd Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Armuchee, Floyd Co. GA.
7. Emeline DUKE was born ca 1863, Floyd Co. GA.
8. Albert DUKE

Green married Harriet J. Dellinger. Harriet was born 1844, Georgia; died 1891, Floyd Co. GA. [Group Sheet]

1. Green Reginald DUKE, Jr. was born ca 1865, Floyd Co. GA.
2. David Edmund DUKE was born ca 1868, Floyd Co. GA.
3. Eugene DUKE was born Aug 1871, Floyd Co. GA; died 1950, Carroll Co. GA; was buried , Saint Paul Methodist Church Cemetery, Whitesburg, Carroll Co. GA.
4. Lucy Lee DUKE was born 28 Dec 1872, Floyd Co. GA; died 24 Oct 1953, Contra Costa Co. CA; was buried , Oak View Memorial Park, Antioch, Contra Costa Co. CA.
5. Unetta DUKE was born ca 1873, Floyd Co. GA.
6. Artelia DUKE was born ca 1876, Floyd Co. GA.
7. Charles Wright DUKE was born 1880, Floyd Co. GA.
8. Joanna (Josie) DUKE died 05 Jun 1969.
9. William Dison DUKE was born 10 May 1889, Floyd Co. GA; died 27 Dec 1965, Floyd Co. GA; was buried , Aragon Cemetery, Aragon, Polk Co. GA.

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CENSUS RECORDS

1820 Federal Census
Name: Charles Duke
Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Walton, Georgia
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 3
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 4
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Slaves - Females - 14 thru 25: 1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 5
Free White Persons - Under 16: 9
Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
Total Free White Persons: 12
Total Slaves: 1
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 13

1830 Federal Census
Name: Charles Duke
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Newton, Georgia
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
Slaves - Males - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 6
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 8
Total Slaves: 1
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 9

1840 Federal Census
Name: Charles Duke
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): District 729, Carroll, Georgia
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 80 thru 89: 1
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 3
No. White Persons over 20 Who Cannot Read and Write: 2
Free White Persons - Under 20: 2
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 7
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 7

LAND RECORDS

Georgia Tax Index, 1789-1799
Name: Duke, Charles
County: Oglethorpe
Year: 1798
District: DUKE

Georgia Cherokee Land Lottery, 1832
Name: Charles Duke, Sen.
Number: 71
District: TWELFTH DISTRICT, THIRD SECTION, CHEROKEE
Residence: Coxe's
County: Morgan
Comment: soldier of Indian war.; granted previous to the first day of January, 1838

HISTORICAL SOURCES

NOTES ON CHARLES DUKE AND HIS FAMILY by Douglas P. Reid

Charles had a son by a first marriage who was a small boy in 1800 and witnessed his wedding to Nancy Elliott. Charles lived near the young families of James, Robert, and William Duke in Walton Co., Georgia in the 1820's. These men, as well as men named Thomas Duke and David Duke (son of John P. Duke) were probably all closely related to him; all except Robert appear on land records together with Charles. When Charles bought land from Henry White of Clarke County in 1826 - land adjacent to William Beard - Thomas and James Duke acted as testators. (These men both may be his sons or brothers). In 1830, Charles Duke is shown in Morgan County, while his son James was in Walton County where he had married Minerva Hightower in 1829.

Charles Duke seems to be related to John P. Duke who died in 1829 in Morgan County. Charles was at the estate sale, and later, drew for the orphans of John P. Duke in a land lottery in 1832. Other Duke relatives at this sale were Edmuond Duke (administrator), Thomas Duke, Sr. (son of John Taylor Duke), Thomas Duke, and John Duke, Sr.

The commonality of these men show that most of them were descended from the same family of John Taylor Duke, son of Captain Henry Duke and Elizabeth Taylor of Prince George County, Virginia. (The "tobacco Dukes" were also descended from John Taylor Duke). John Taylor Duke and his sons, Henry, Thomas, James, and Edmond moved to Georgia (Wilkes Co.) in the 1770's and 80's. These son were in their forties by then, with families of their own. It is known that Henry and Thomas both had sons named Charles Duke. Our Charles Duke was likely the son of James, Edmond, Thomas, or possibly Henry, and the grandson of John Taylor Duke. (See Evelyn Duke Brandenberger's "The Duke Family" for more on these men and their ancestry).

The records are silent as to where Charles Duke was in 1840. He was probably in Floyd County. By then his son, David D. Duke, and Thomas Duke, (who may also have been his son) were in Floyd. Thomas and David had married sisters - Mary Ann and Martha White - in Walton County in 1829 and 1835. By the 1850's Charles and Nancy along with James, John, Nancy, and her husband (whom she married in Floyd County in 1842). David, and Green R. were all in Floyd County, along with Thomas Duke. Thomas left soon after 1850. The children of Thomas Duke (born about 1803), and Mary Ann White (born about 1807), who married in Walton County on 2 August 1829, were Martha (b-1830), James R. (b-1833), Mary A. (b-1835), Lousana (b-1837), Charles M. (b-1849), David W. (b-1843), Edmond I. (b-1845), and John T. (b-1849).

James Duke was appointed Administrator of Charles Duke's estate on 7 April 1856. Charles was remembered as a "big, stout, tall man," and was knwn to his grandchildren as "Grand-Sir."

Charles married Nancy Elliott. Nancy was born ca 1782, South Carolina; died Aft 1860, Georgia. [Group Sheet]

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CENSUS RECORDS

1860 Federal Census
Name: Nancy Duke
Age in 1860: 78
Birth Year: abt 1782
Birthplace: South Carolina
Home in 1860: Rome, Floyd, Georgia
Gender: Female
Post Office: Rome
Household Members:
Green R Duke 35 [son]
Emeline Duke 30
Joseph Duke 12
Elizabeth Duke 10
Martin M Duke 8
George W Duke 6
J Alfred Duke 2
Nancy Duke 78

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CENSUS RECORDS

Database: GA 1800 Territorial Census (Oglethorpe Co.)
Name: Thomas Duke
State: GA
County: Oglethorpe County
Township: No Township
Year: 1800
Page: 000

1820 United States Federal Census
Name: Thomas Dake [Thomas Duke]
Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Capt Shaws District, Morgan, Georgia
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
Slaves - Males - 26 thru 44: 2
Slaves - Females - Under 14: 3
Slaves - Females - 14 thru 25: 2
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
Total Free White Persons: 2
Total Slaves: 7
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 9

1830 US Census
Name: Thomas Dicke [Thomas Duke]
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Coweta, Georgia
Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1
Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23: 2
Slaves - Males - 24 thru 35: 1
Slaves - Females - Under 10: 1
Slaves - Females - 24 thru 35: 2
Slaves - Females - 36 thru 54: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
Total Free White Persons: 2
Total Slaves: 7
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 9

1840 US Census
Name: Thomas Duke
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): District 6, Coweta, Georgia
Age: born ca 1775
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1
Slaves - Males - Under 10: 3
Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23: 2
Slaves - Males - 24 thru 35: 1
Slaves - Females - Under 10: 1
Slaves - Females - 10 thru 23: 1
Slaves - Females - 36 thru 54: 2
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 7
Free White Persons - Under 20: 3
Total Free White Persons: 5
Total Slaves: 10
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 15

LAND AND TAX RECORDS

Georgia Tax Index, 1789-1799
Name: Duke, Thomas
County: Oglethorpe
Year: 1798
District: DUKE
Page: 41

DUKE FAMILY DNA PROJECT at Familytreedna.com

Group 4: Eastern Henrico Co. VA, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama; includes (among others) descendants of Capt. Henry Duke, Prince George Co VA as well as an individual whose family line was included in distribution of the James Buchanan Duke estate.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dukedna/dukedna.htm

http://mysite.verizon.net/hbwhitmore/Duke/index.html

Taylor Duke, Warren Co, NC [family participated in James Buchanan Duke estate distribution on basis of documentation of descent from Taylor Duke through a Robert Duke of Orange County, NC (Kit No. 25203)

Ancestry Unknown, perfect match at 37 markers for Kit No. 170006 Welcome P. Duke descendant (Kit No. 95358)

Welcome P. Duke, b. ca. 1815, d. Harris County GA aft 14 Jun 1880, and wife Mary Hickey, b. ca 1815, through son Thomas Jefferson Duke b. 1845 Troup County, GA (Kit No. 170006)

John Taylor Duke, son of Capt. Henry Duke of VA, through Hardiman Duke, moved to Clarke Co AL from GA in 1809; Hardiman was a son of Thomas Duke of Coweta Co, GA. (Kit No. 17177, Dwight)

Capt. Henry Duke of VA, through son John Taylor Duke, through JTD's son Thomas Duke of Coweta Co, GA, through Thomas's son Hardiman Duke; Hardiman moved to Clarke Co AL from GA in 1809 (Mark, Kit No. 57292)

Thomas married Elizabeth. [Group Sheet]

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