Telephone Register, McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon, Friday, April 2, 1926
GEORGE R. DUEL, 96, DIES AT SHERIDAN; LIFE VARIED ONE
Married in Iowa When Certificates Were Not Required – Took Part in Oklahoma Land Rush – Claim Traded For Yoke of Steers
SHERIDAN, April 1 – George R. Duel died at his home in Sheridan March 27, at the age of nearly 96 years. He was born in the state of New York and when still a young man went to Iowa where he was married in 1853 at Carlisle in Warren county, to Amy Atkins who died August 5, 1919.
At the time of this marriage, marriage certificates were not required in Iowa and not until 62 years after the marriage did the couple received the certificate and then by request.
In the spring of 1854 Mr. and Mrs. Duel went to Nebraska and took up a claim on the present site of Omaha. There was only one cabin besides theirs and Mr. Duel was the only white man. Mr. Duel was a brick moulder and moulded the first brick in the city which is now Omaha. On account of the ill health of Mrs. Duel, in 1855 he traded his claim for a yoke of steers and a log chain and started on his return trip to Iowa.
Later the couple went to Kansas and thence to Missouri, and was in that state when the Civil war broke out. On March 17, 1862, Mr. Duel enlisted at St. Joseph in the Fourth Missouri cavalry, Co. F., and served for over three years, receiving his honorable discharge April 1, 1865.
Upon retiring he settled down until in the ‘90s, he made a trip into the Oklahoma country and when the Oklahoma land was thrown open, with thousands of others Mr. Duel made the wild rush for the land of promise. He won out in the rush and settled on some choice land where he resided until 1902 when he came to Sheridan, where he lived until his death. He is survived by six children, Mrs. M.A. Tribble of Sheridan, Mrs. G.L. Pattee of Portland, two sons in California, one in Oklahoma and one in Missouri; 43 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Sunday, March 28, at the Sheridan chapel, Rev. Ward Rice officiating. Interment was in the Masonic cemetery at Sheridan.
GEORGE R. DUEL, 96, DIES AT SHERIDAN; LIFE VARIED ONE
Married in Iowa When Certificates Were Not Required – Took Part in Oklahoma Land Rush – Claim Traded For Yoke of Steers
SHERIDAN, April 1 – George R. Duel died at his home in Sheridan March 27, at the age of nearly 96 years. He was born in the state of New York and when still a young man went to Iowa where he was married in 1853 at Carlisle in Warren county, to Amy Atkins who died August 5, 1919.
At the time of this marriage, marriage certificates were not required in Iowa and not until 62 years after the marriage did the couple received the certificate and then by request.
In the spring of 1854 Mr. and Mrs. Duel went to Nebraska and took up a claim on the present site of Omaha. There was only one cabin besides theirs and Mr. Duel was the only white man. Mr. Duel was a brick moulder and moulded the first brick in the city which is now Omaha. On account of the ill health of Mrs. Duel, in 1855 he traded his claim for a yoke of steers and a log chain and started on his return trip to Iowa.
Later the couple went to Kansas and thence to Missouri, and was in that state when the Civil war broke out. On March 17, 1862, Mr. Duel enlisted at St. Joseph in the Fourth Missouri cavalry, Co. F., and served for over three years, receiving his honorable discharge April 1, 1865.
Upon retiring he settled down until in the ‘90s, he made a trip into the Oklahoma country and when the Oklahoma land was thrown open, with thousands of others Mr. Duel made the wild rush for the land of promise. He won out in the rush and settled on some choice land where he resided until 1902 when he came to Sheridan, where he lived until his death. He is survived by six children, Mrs. M.A. Tribble of Sheridan, Mrs. G.L. Pattee of Portland, two sons in California, one in Oklahoma and one in Missouri; 43 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Sunday, March 28, at the Sheridan chapel, Rev. Ward Rice officiating. Interment was in the Masonic cemetery at Sheridan.
Telephone Register, McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon, Friday, April 2, 1926
GEORGE R. DUEL, 96, DIES AT SHERIDAN; LIFE VARIED ONE
Married in Iowa When Certificates Were Not Required – Took Part in Oklahoma Land Rush – Claim Traded For Yoke of Steers
SHERIDAN, April 1 – George R. Duel died at his home in Sheridan March 27, at the age of nearly 96 years. He was born in the state of New York and when still a young man went to Iowa where he was married in 1853 at Carlisle in Warren county, to Amy Atkins who died August 5, 1919.
At the time of this marriage, marriage certificates were not required in Iowa and not until 62 years after the marriage did the couple received the certificate and then by request.
In the spring of 1854 Mr. and Mrs. Duel went to Nebraska and took up a claim on the present site of Omaha. There was only one cabin besides theirs and Mr. Duel was the only white man. Mr. Duel was a brick moulder and moulded the first brick in the city which is now Omaha. On account of the ill health of Mrs. Duel, in 1855 he traded his claim for a yoke of steers and a log chain and started on his return trip to Iowa.
Later the couple went to Kansas and thence to Missouri, and was in that state when the Civil war broke out. On March 17, 1862, Mr. Duel enlisted at St. Joseph in the Fourth Missouri cavalry, Co. F., and served for over three years, receiving his honorable discharge April 1, 1865.
Upon retiring he settled down until in the ‘90s, he made a trip into the Oklahoma country and when the Oklahoma land was thrown open, with thousands of others Mr. Duel made the wild rush for the land of promise. He won out in the rush and settled on some choice land where he resided until 1902 when he came to Sheridan, where he lived until his death. He is survived by six children, Mrs. M.A. Tribble of Sheridan, Mrs. G.L. Pattee of Portland, two sons in California, one in Oklahoma and one in Missouri; 43 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Sunday, March 28, at the Sheridan chapel, Rev. Ward Rice officiating. Interment was in the Masonic cemetery at Sheridan.
GEORGE R. DUEL, 96, DIES AT SHERIDAN; LIFE VARIED ONE
Married in Iowa When Certificates Were Not Required – Took Part in Oklahoma Land Rush – Claim Traded For Yoke of Steers
SHERIDAN, April 1 – George R. Duel died at his home in Sheridan March 27, at the age of nearly 96 years. He was born in the state of New York and when still a young man went to Iowa where he was married in 1853 at Carlisle in Warren county, to Amy Atkins who died August 5, 1919.
At the time of this marriage, marriage certificates were not required in Iowa and not until 62 years after the marriage did the couple received the certificate and then by request.
In the spring of 1854 Mr. and Mrs. Duel went to Nebraska and took up a claim on the present site of Omaha. There was only one cabin besides theirs and Mr. Duel was the only white man. Mr. Duel was a brick moulder and moulded the first brick in the city which is now Omaha. On account of the ill health of Mrs. Duel, in 1855 he traded his claim for a yoke of steers and a log chain and started on his return trip to Iowa.
Later the couple went to Kansas and thence to Missouri, and was in that state when the Civil war broke out. On March 17, 1862, Mr. Duel enlisted at St. Joseph in the Fourth Missouri cavalry, Co. F., and served for over three years, receiving his honorable discharge April 1, 1865.
Upon retiring he settled down until in the ‘90s, he made a trip into the Oklahoma country and when the Oklahoma land was thrown open, with thousands of others Mr. Duel made the wild rush for the land of promise. He won out in the rush and settled on some choice land where he resided until 1902 when he came to Sheridan, where he lived until his death. He is survived by six children, Mrs. M.A. Tribble of Sheridan, Mrs. G.L. Pattee of Portland, two sons in California, one in Oklahoma and one in Missouri; 43 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Sunday, March 28, at the Sheridan chapel, Rev. Ward Rice officiating. Interment was in the Masonic cemetery at Sheridan.
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