DUKE, Mary E. (Lay)

Date of birth:  abt 1869
Date of death: 17 Oct 1893 – Willow Branch, Brown Township, Hancock, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, October 20, 1893,
Volume XXXIV Number 15, page 1 column 5

The body of Mary Duke was brought here from Willow Branch, Ind., last Wednesday afternoon and buried in Greenlawn cemetery. Mrs. Duke was a daughter of Richard Lay and died of ty­phoid fever.

Link to Mary E. (Lay) Duke’s grave

Notes: The Hancock County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book RH-1, page 35, records that Mary E. Duke, a twenty-four-year-old white female, died 17 Oct 1893 in Indiana.
Indiana Marriages, 1780–1992, database, records that twenty-two-year-old Henry H. Duke married eighteen-year-old Mary Lay on 24 May 1886 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana. It also records that Mary’s parents were Richard Lay and Sophia Rayburn. (Reference p 18; FHL microfilm 382748)

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson