Mary Alma Duke was the youngest of four children of Sarah Alice and Stephen Austin Duke. Alma, as she was called, is on the left in the first photo, and in the rear in the second photo.

Alma was a moving force in the First Christian Church of Brady. She was called Granny Jordan by Murray and Anita.

Her grandfather came to Texas with Stephen F. Austin and the "Old Three Hundred". See the poem written here which refers to "Tom Duke"