Palestine Minerva (Duke) Wood

  Noted events in her life were:

• Notes. MESSAGE FROM INTERNET:
http://home.att.net/~ztlcox/duke/APDukeFamily30aug2006.html
Palestine's parents were Isaac & Mary Duke.
In the 1870 census, Isaac and Mary lived in Union Parish and there is a girl, Palestine M.. Duke, born in 1868 and a boy, Thomas E. Duke, only 4 months old in their household and I certainly must assume these are their children. Mary’s grandparents, John & Jeanette Wood lived with them in Union Parish. And her parents, Oliver & Mary, had also moved to Union Parish, living near Marion. They lived three houses from Isaac and Mary.
On 2-2-1876, Isaac’s father Austin, died in Union Parish.
By the 1880 census, Isaac and Mary had moved back east to Smith County, Mississippi, and their two children were not living with them. Smith County in Mississippi is the first county on the west side of Jasper where they used to live. Mary’s parents Oliver & Mary both still lived in Union Parish and grandmother Jenette now lived with them, as did Palestine and Thomas Duke, the two children of Isaac & Mary, although both are listed with a last name of Wood. Jumping to the next available census in 1900, both Isaac M. Duke and Mary C. still lived in Smith County, Ms. Isaac was then 62 and Mary 52 years old. And back in Louisiana, Palestine Wood had married Jonah B. Murray in Union Parish on 12-18-1899 and they lived in Union Parish in 1900 with Mary Wood, 60 years old and a widow, living with them and listed as “mother-in-law”. I cannot explain why Isaac & Mary Duke left their 12 & 10 year old children in Louisiana to live with Mary’s parents. The two children seem to have dropped their “Duke” name and took “Wood” but I cannot believe that a 2-year-old girl and a 4-month-old baby would have been living anywhere other than with their mother in 1870.
Isaac and Mary Duke were still alive and living in the same place, town of Spinola, Mississippi, in the 1910 census:

• census, 1870, Marion, Union Parish, LA. Name: Palestine M Duke
Estimated birth year: abt 1868
Age in 1870: 2
Birthplace: Louisiana
Home in 1870: Ward 2, Union, Louisiana
Race: White
Gender: Female
Post Office: Marion
Household members:
Isaac M Duke 33
Mary L Duke 25
Palestine M Duke 2
Thomas P Duke 1
John Wood 69
Jenetta Wood 65

• census, 1880, Ward 6, Union Parish, LA. Name: Palestine Wood
Home in 1880: 6th Ward, Union, Louisiana
Age: 12
Estimated birth year: abt 1868
Birthplace: Louisiana
Relation to head-of-household: Daughter
Father's name: Oliver P.
Father's birthplace: Al.
Mother's name: Mary J.
Mother's birthplace: Al.
Occupation: At Home
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Gender: Female
Household members:
Oliver P. Wood 54
Mary J. Wood 51
Luella T. Wood 22
Perry J. Wood 16
Palestine Wood 12
Thomas P. Wood 10
Jeanette Wood 78 [mother]

• census, 1900, Union Parish, LA. Name: Palestine Murray
Home in 1900: Police Jury Ward 6, Union, Louisiana
Age: 30
Estimated birth year: abt 1870
Birthplace: Louisiana
Relationship to head-of-house: Wife
Spouse's name: Jonas
Mother's name: Mary
Race: White

• census, 1910, Union Parish, LA. Palistine Murry
Age in 1910: 42
Estimated birth year: abt 1868
Birthplace: Louisiana
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Father's Birth Place: Alabama
Mother's Birth Place: Alabama
Spouse's name: Jona B
Home in 1910: Police Jury Ward 6, Union, Louisiana
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Female

• census, 1920, Union Parish, LA. Name: Finie Murry
Home in 1920: Police Jury Ward 6, Union, Louisiana
Age: 50 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1870
Birthplace: Louisiana
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Spouse's name: J B
Father's Birth Place: United States of America
Mother's Birth Place: United States of America
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Sex: Female
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Image: 759

• census, 1930, Union Parish, LA. Name: Palistine M Murry
Home in 1930: Police Jury Ward 2, Union, Louisiana
Age: 60
Estimated birth year: abt 1870
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Spouse's name: Jona B

• Louisiana Death Index, 1933, Union, LA. Name: Palistine Murray
Death Date: 26 Feb 1933
Estimated Birth Year: 1868
Age: 65 Years
Parish: Union
Certificate Number: 2394
Volume: 6

Palestine married Jonas Berry Murray, son of Daniel Crawford 'Dan' Murray and Laura Jane Green, on 18 Dec 1899 in Union Parish, LA. (Jonas Berry Murray was born on 30 Aug 1878 in Cherry Ridge, Union, LA, died on 30 Oct 1967 in LA and was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Union Parish, LA.)