 1853 - 1893 (40 years)
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| Name |
Mary Elizabeth DUKE |
| Birth |
1853 |
Orange County, North Carolina, USA  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
1893 |
| Burial |
Washington Duke family mausoleum at Maplewood Cemetery, Durham, Durham, North Carolina, USA. |
| Notes |
- Biography
Mary Elizabeth Duke (1853-1893) was the first child and only daughter of Wash Duke and his second wife, Artelia Roney. Mary, along with her father and brothers, worked in the family tobacco business after the Civil War. Her job was filling, closing, and labeling the cotton bags in which their processed tobacco was sold.
Mary briefly attended the New Garden School (later Guilford College) and, as the family business grew, took on some management responsibilities. She married Robert Edwin Lyon, a Durham businessman. She and three of their children later died of pneumonia
The Duke family financed two buildings in their sister's memory: a science building at Guilford College and a new home for the Southern Conservatory of Music, at Duke and Main streets near the Duke's tobacco factory and Washington Duke's home, in Durham. Mary's daughter, Mary Stagg, and her husband, J.E. Stagg, donated the carillon at Duke Memorial Methodist Church in memory of their mothers.
Burial: Maplewood Cemetery Durham Durham County North Carolina, USA Plot: Section W, Duke Masoleum
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| Person ID |
I11472 |
Johnson & Hanson |
| Last Modified |
12 May 2018 |
| Father |
George Washington DUKE, b. 28 Dec 1820, Orange County, North Carolina, USA d. 8 May 1905, Durham, North Carolina, USA (Age 84 years) |
| Mother |
Artelia RONEY, b. 28 Jun 1829, Alamance, North Carolina, USAmap d. 20 Aug 1858 (Age 29 years) |
| Marriage |
9 Dec 1852 |
| Family ID |
F4140 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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