Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Duke, Parker, 1896 

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PARKER DUKE 

  Suffolk, Va., Nov. 13. - (Special.) - [...] 

          DROPPED DEAD. 

  While talking with some friends at his grocery store on Sycamore street at 
8:40 o'clock this evening, Mr. Parker Duke suddenly turned pale and toppled 
over.  In a minute he was dead.  Heart failure is assigned as the cause.  The 
remains were taken to the residence of his daughter, Mrs. W.T. Taylor, and 
prepared for burial.  Deceased was about 63 years old.  He lately moved here 
from the county. 


Parker DUKE, grocer, former farmer, Confederate veteran, 
b. ca. 1842, Nansemond Co., d. 13 Nov* 1896, at work, Suffolk, 
interred in the family cemetery*, Hosier Rd., 
re-interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 
"Norfolk Virginian," Vol. 52, No. 152, Sat., Nov. 14, 1896, p. 5 

*Additional information: 

Parker's & his wife's graves were moved when the City of Suffolk took over 
  the property for a landfill. 

Holly Lawn list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 

Photo of his gravestone - added by joe ford & Angelique Desjardins Geyer - 
   are posted with Find a Grave Memorial #9738815, which gives 1839 - 1897; 
   no dates shown on stone. 

He was the son of "Whit" Whitmell & Susan DUKE. 

He served as a private in Co. I, 61st VA Infantry, after transferring from 
   Co. B, Cohoon's Battalion.  His wife applied for a pension 4 Sep 1908, 
   stating that he d. of heart disease. 

Nansemond Co. D.Reg. #57 gives d. 13 Oct 1896, of apolexy, age 62; farmer. 


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