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Editor, Daily News: I’m searching for the descendants of William Duncan who left Virginia and moved to Warren County, Kentucky, and this date is only a guess, around the late 1700's. I’m hoping to find the ancestors of Marshall Duncan who married Polly (Mary) Garner, daughter of Jesse Garner. He was a Revolutionary War soldier.
I think Marshall and Polly were married around 1820. They were my great-great-great-grandparents. I hope to find the names of Marshall's parents and more about the Garners.
Marshall Duncan was a surveyor and had gone some distance from his home to work. While there he took very sick and died before Polly could reach him. He was a Mason and the Masons buried him and made up a purse for my grandmother for her trip by stage to her home.
She was quite a young widow with eight children. Later she moved to Missouri, Platte County, and brought her slaves, perhaps 3 or 4. She hired them out thereby making a living for herself and children. She did not re-marry and lived to be about 90 years old.
One of the daughters was Ann who married a Browning, another was Sanford Duncan and one daughter was named Sarah. Mary went to California during 1849.
I do not know just what the relationship Is between William Duncan and Marshall but perhaps some of your readers can help me. Mrs. Jess L. Osbern, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
(Researcher’s note: Mary A. Duncan was listed on the 1847 Platte County Tax List as owning 5 slaves. She is listed on the 1850 Platte County Census as being a 50 year old woman born in Virginia residing in Green Township with seven children.)Date(s) of Creation
1/26/1955
