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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History
of
Sangamon County, Illinois
Together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships,
Educational,
Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits
of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of
Representative Citizens.
HISTORY OF ILLINOIS
Embracing Accounts of the Pre-Historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and
Political and Military History
- ILLUSTRATED -
Publ. Chicago:
Interstate Publishing Company
1881.
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FRANCIS M. DUNCAN, was
born on a farm in Menard county, Illinois, two miles
northwest of Salisbury, Illinois, Oct. 1, 1831. He
lived there and in Hancock county until eighteen years of
age, when he moved with his parents to the head of Richland
creek, in Cartwright township, Sangamon county, where he
remained two years. Dec. 30, 1852, he married Miss
Martha J. Yoakum; she was born in Sangamon county,
Illinois, and was a daughter of William Yoakum, born
in West Virginia. He was a farmer. He died Apr.
26, 1880. His wife, Sarah (Simmons) Yoakum,
born in Kentucky. She was the mother of ten children;
she died Dec. 5, 1865. Some time after Mr. and Mrs.
F. M. Duncan were married he bought a farm of one
hundred and eighteen acres in section seventeen, where he
resides. He and wife are members of the United
Brethren Church and have had eight children, viz.:
Charles U., Laura H., William R., and James F.,
(who are twins) Jenetta A., George H., Louisa E. and Mary
J. Duncan. Mr. F. M. Duncan was a son of
James T. Duncan, born in Kentucky, who came to Illinois
at an early day and was one of the first settlers in
Salisbury township. He was a farmer and died on July
9, 1856, and his wife was Miss Polly (Penny) Duncan,
who was born near Beardstown; she was a daughter of
Robert Penny, who came down the Ohio river in a dug-out,
and landed in Illinois in 1807. She was a member of
the Methodist Church, and is still living in Salisbury.
She was born in 1809, and was the mother of eleven children.
F. M. Duncan has his farm of one hundred and eighteen
acres all fenced and seventy acres under good cultivation
and well stocked. In politics he is a Democrat and he cast
his first vote for Buchanan for President.
Source: History of Sangamon Co., IL - publ. 1881 -
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MARION M. DUNCAN was born
on a farm near Salisbury, in Menard county, Illinois, Dec.
17, 1832. When he was twenty-three years of age he was
married to Martha McMurphy, Apr. 16, 1855; she
was born in New York, and was the daughter of Archie H.
McMurphy, born in New York. He died in 1877.
His wife, Elizabeth White, was born in New
York, and was the mother of eleven children. She is
living at Salisbury, Illinois, with her son, Joseph
McMurphy. Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Duncan are
members of the Christian Church and have had six children,
five living, viz: Mrs. Lucy C. Davis, Laura A., Margaret
V., Omer L. and Elizabeth E. Duucan. The
father of M. M. Duncan and W. T. H. Duncan,
was born near Louisville, Kentucky, May 18, 1812; when a
young man, learned the hatter's trade; he came to Sangamon
county and settled in Salisbury township, in 1831; died in
October, 1864. His wife, Eva (Miller) Duncan,
was born in Kentucky, and was the mother of twelve children.
She is still living and resides with her son, Thomas
Duncan, at Salisbury, Illinois. Mr. M. M.
Duncan has a farm of ten acres, in section thirty-two
where he resides. In politics, he is a Democrat and
cast his first vote for Harrison for President.
His father, W. T. H. Duncan, was a Democrat, and for
nineteen years justice of the peace, and held that office at
the time of his death. Mr. M. M. Duncan has
been town clerk eight or nine years, and was elected justice
of the peace and resigned six months after and went to
Springfield, and was engaged in the grocery business one
year, when he clerked for Smith & Hay two
years; then ran the Junction House, one mile below
Springfield, two years, when he returned to Salisbury.
Source: History of Sangamon Co., IL - publ. 1881 -
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