Duke

Laura Duke (Gardner) (Blackburn)

Grandmother to (my maternal grandmother)  Marjorie Grace Daigle (Tabor) (Brill)

Great Grandmother to Miriam Grace Tabor (Gdovin)

 Born ??

Died ??

Wife of William Gardner (first husband – died of miner’s consumption, coal miner in Iowa)

Wife of Thomas Blackburn (second husband – died of alcoholism)

Laura Duke was related to Doris Duke (claim to fame as the richest little girl in the world)

Laura Duke “proved” on Stuart Street in an old hut and was eventually given the property under the old squatter’s rights. 4265 Stuart Street, Denver, Colorado

Mother of Minnie Victoria Gardner