John, Thank you for sharing this information with us. I appreciate it. I would like to know who the parents of Paralee Duke were, would like to know the whole line back. I found the Obit of Otto Duke and I have it in my records. Johnny Rush was the father of Vera Rush.=Do you know Vera`s mothers name? He was a school teacher at Evening Shade in the 1940's. =Vera was also a school teacher was she not? I am trying to find the connection to the HAMILTON family and the RUSH family. Paralee Fletcher Duke after she was widowed married a Branscomb. Ginny