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Helen Mary GAINES DUKE

Evergreen (Fayetteville) Cemetery
Washington County,
Arkansas

February 14, 1851 - July 24, 1937

*Obituary
Fayetteville Daily Democrat
Saturday, July 24, 1937

DUKE, Helen Gaines - Mrs. Helen Duke Dies At 4 P.M.

Mrs. Helen Gaines Duke, mother of Mrs. J.C. Futrall, died this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Futrall home following a long illness. Funeral services will be held Sunday at First Christian Church of which the deceased was a life-long member. The hour had not been set this afternoon.

*Obituary
Fayetteville Daily Democrat
Monday, July 26, 1937

Mrs. Helen Duke Is Laid To Rest - Pioneer Resident Is Buried Sunday At Evergreen Beside Husband

Funeral services for Mrs. Helen Mary Gaines Duke, 86, mother of Mrs. John Clifton Futrall, wife of the president of the University of Arkansas, were held at First Christian Church Sunday at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. Paul Kennedy officiating, assisted by Rev. J.M. Asbell. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery.

Pallbearers were B.N. Wilson, Jerome Reynolds, Ed Vandeventer, O.W. Dritt, A.E. Cowan, J.B. McConnell, Charles Ranner and C.J. Peal.

Dr. Kennedy and Mr. Asbell, two of her pastors during her long life as a member of the First Christian Church paid her high tribute. Dr. Kennedy based the funeral address on the Psalm of Life and the "excellent wife" of Proverbs, both of which he applied to the life of Mrs. Duke.

A large number of friends of Mrs. Duke and of Dr. and Mrs. Futrall attended the services both at the church and at Evergreen Cemetery where the deceased was laid beside her husband and a daughter, Maude, who died in infancy.

Great numbers of flowers were sent to the home and the church. Half an hour before the church service the body rested in its gray and silver casket with top open, so that friends could take a last look at their dead, beautiful and serene in death as she had been in life.

Dr. and Mrs. J.K. Donaldson of Little Rock and Dr. and Mrs. D.B. Stough of Hot Springs were among out of town relatives here for the funeral. Mrs. Donaldson is the former Emily Futrall and Mrs. Stough the former Helen Futrall, both granddaughters of Mrs. Duke, the latter a namesake.

She was born in Livingston, Alabama, February 14, 1851, daughter of Judge B.J. Gaines and Mrs. Sallie Inge Gaines. With her parents, she moved to Arkansas when she was six years old and lived with her parents at Greenwood, Sebastian County until they moved here. So far as is known she is the last local surviving pupil in the Sophie Sawyer Fayetteville Female Seminary here.

Mrs. Duke was a devoted worker in the church and in church circles was known as the "pincushion lady" for her making entirely by hand of nearly 1,000 velvet pincushions which were sold as a church benefit. These bits of handwork of her own design, have gone to almost every State and to some foreign countries as gifts, and almost every member of her church has at least one specimen of her handwork.

Mrs. Duke had been a resident of Fayetteville for 80 years. Her death followed an illness of two years. She was the wife of the late J.L. Young Duke, Confederate veteran and one-time Fayetteville jeweler, who died in 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Duke were married December 4, 1868 in Fayetteville.

Photo provided by Dr. Greg Vogel
http://www.projectpast.org/gvogel/Evergreen/Evergreen.html

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Submitted: 7/7/21 • Approved: 7/7/21 • Last Updated: 3/27/24 • R1380946-G408601-S3

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