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George DROKE

Hart ( Bentonville) Cemetery
Benton County,
Arkansas

January 10, 1812 - August 5, 1893

*Obituary
Benton County Democrat
Thursday, August 10, 1893

DROKE, George - Died, August 5th, at the family residence, two and one-half miles south of Bentonville, Rev. George Droke, aged 81 years. The remains were interred in the Hart cemetery on Sunday, Aug. 6th by the Masonic fraternity, the Rev. P.B. Hopkins officiating.

*Obituary
Benton County Democrat
Thursday, August 31, 1893

Excerpts from resolutions of respect from Bentonville Masonic Lodge - For more than a quarter of a century brother Droke has been an honored inmate of our temple and a faithful co-worker for the good of the craft. But his labors are over. He has laid down the working tools of his profession and entered upon the enjoyment of that refreshment found only at the right hand of our Great Grand Master in Heaven. The deceased was born in the county of ______ in the state of Virginia, 1812; immigrated to Arkansas in 18_ and located on a farm two and a half miles south of Bentonville upon which he continued to reside up to the date of his death. He was an active, industrious, hard-working man, a farmer by interest as well as by occupation. He loved to till the soil and reap the well-earned reward of his honest labor; was thoroughly enamored with the rural pleasures of a country life. He was quiet and easy in his manners, retired in his habits, modest in his pretensions, kind, courteous and respectful in his deportment towards everybody and was severely averse to all manner of pedantry, ostentation and display. He loved his home, loved to stay there and enjoy the society of his family, the fruits of his orchard, the beauty of his meadows, his broad green fields and the unsullied breath of the open country. He was an ordained minister of the Protestant Methodist church, though your committee are not advised that he was ever engaged in the itinerant service of the church.

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Submitted: 8/26/17 • Approved: 8/27/17 • Last Updated: 10/11/23 • R1191535-G0-S3

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