(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1966, rancher and writer Cordia Duke died.
Born Cordelia Jane Sloan in Missouri in 1877, she taught school as a teenager in the Oklahoma Territory before moving to Sherman County, Texas, to teach in a one-room school near the XIT Ranch.
She married Robert L. Duke, foreman for the Buffalo Springs division of the XIT Ranch, in 1907. Continued
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