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Millicent Ellett <I>Coghill</I> Duke

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Millicent Ellett Coghill Duke

Birth
Hanover County, Virginia, USA
Death
4 Jul 1916 (aged 83)
Warren County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois, USA
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Millicent, born in Virginia, is the younger of two children born to Benjamin Coleman Coghill and Millicent Ellett. Her mother, daughter of John Ellett & Frances Coleman, died before she was two years old and is buried in the Ellett Family cemetery called Montevideo which is in Hanover County near Ashalnd, Virgnia. Her father then married to Mary Ann Ellett, a first cousin once removed to Millicent. (Millicent's grandfather Thomas Ellett was Mary Ann's great-grandfather.) Then, in 1836 they re-located to Henderson County, Illinois. Millicent had only one full brother, John Waller Sr., but nine half-brothers and sisters (of whom only five lived to adulthood). Her nephew, Dr. William Hawes Coghill, would later write, in his "The Family of Coghill Continued" about this joined-together family that "..the "own" and "half" were forgotton".

Millicent was educated and grew to womanhood in Henderson County. Just before her 20th birthday, on January 6, 1853 she married James Duke whose family had immigrated from England just eight years previously. They had two children: Mary Elizabeth and Alpheus Wellington, and moved to the area around Monmouth where they farmed until deciding to retire and move into town. Her husband died in 1898 and Millicent followed 18 years later. Unfortunately her son died before her (in 1904); he left Millicent's only heir, his son, James W. Mary Elizabeth married Kingsley Pence, who became a well-known investor and public name in the Denver area (both died in 1927, in California).
Millicent, born in Virginia, is the younger of two children born to Benjamin Coleman Coghill and Millicent Ellett. Her mother, daughter of John Ellett & Frances Coleman, died before she was two years old and is buried in the Ellett Family cemetery called Montevideo which is in Hanover County near Ashalnd, Virgnia. Her father then married to Mary Ann Ellett, a first cousin once removed to Millicent. (Millicent's grandfather Thomas Ellett was Mary Ann's great-grandfather.) Then, in 1836 they re-located to Henderson County, Illinois. Millicent had only one full brother, John Waller Sr., but nine half-brothers and sisters (of whom only five lived to adulthood). Her nephew, Dr. William Hawes Coghill, would later write, in his "The Family of Coghill Continued" about this joined-together family that "..the "own" and "half" were forgotton".

Millicent was educated and grew to womanhood in Henderson County. Just before her 20th birthday, on January 6, 1853 she married James Duke whose family had immigrated from England just eight years previously. They had two children: Mary Elizabeth and Alpheus Wellington, and moved to the area around Monmouth where they farmed until deciding to retire and move into town. Her husband died in 1898 and Millicent followed 18 years later. Unfortunately her son died before her (in 1904); he left Millicent's only heir, his son, James W. Mary Elizabeth married Kingsley Pence, who became a well-known investor and public name in the Denver area (both died in 1927, in California).

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