Hancock-Franklin County OhArchives Biographies.....Dukes, Lewis (Sr.) 1811 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   LEWIS DUKES, SR., retired farmer, P. O. Oak Ridge, one of the early pioneers
of Blanchard Township, this county, was born in Franklin County, Ohio, April 6,
1811; son of John and Mary (Haddox) Dukes, natives of Virginia, and who had
twelve children. Lewis Dukes, Sr., who was very young when his father died, was
reared on a farm and acquired his education in the common schools. At seventeen
years of age he started out in life for himself as a day laborer, coming to this
county about 1827, and commenced clearing the forest for the small pittance of
25 cents per day, in which work he continued for about seven years. He then
purchased 700 acres of wild land with money which he had saved out of his
earnings, and has been very successful in all his undertakings through life. He
continued to add to his possessions until, at one time, he had 1,200 acres of
fine land. He has disposed of a part, and at the present time owns 800 acres of
well improved land, on which he and his family reside. Mr. Dukes was united in
marriage in 1838, with Laura W. Bean, a Christian lady of rare accomplishments
and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who departed this life in 1874.
After her death, in 1876, Mr. Dukes married Mrs. Harriet Alward, daughter of
James and Mary A. (Bean) Caton, and widow of Alfred L. Alward. Mr. Dukes is one
of the old living land-marks left to tell the tale of the hardships and
privations incident to pioneer life in Blanchard Township; and one of the
pleasures of his declining years is the knowledge of having lived an upright and
honorable life. His wife has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for
forty-one years. 



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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Blanchard Township




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