This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AKB.2ACI/1151.2 Message Board Post: There is a cemetery about 3 miles east of Abbeville along the northern county line of Lafayette County known as Duke Cemetery. There are no Dukes with marked graves there but land records show that W. H. Duke purchased the land about 1845 and apparently died before 1877 when Sina Duke transferred the ownership to H. J. anf B. F. Duke. They retained ownership until about 1900.