GAGE CO. NE
Formed 1855, original county
Jefferson formed 1856 from Gage
Saline formed 1855 from Gage, Lancaster
 

CENSUS RECORDS

1860 Gage Co. NE Census
Pg.32-3, #307, J.B. ROPER (m) 44 CT farmer
                  Pelina 39 NY
                  Clarissa E. 16, Laura L. 12 PA
                  Frances E. 6, Katie M. 2 PA
                  Melinda DUNCAN 24 IN
                  Emma 4/12 NE
                  (MAD: see also Clay Co. NE; one Thomas Duncan and wife age over 21, and two daus. under age 16, on 1854 Territorial census, 1st Dist., Belews; one Thomas Duncan 28 birthstate not given, died 5/1860 of abscess, one Thomas Duncan 25 TN died 4/1860 in Johnson Co. NE of unknown causes; from 1860 Mortality Schedule)
 

1870 Gage Co. NE Census
      No Duncan indexed

HISTORIES before 1923

"History of Gage County, Nebraska : a narrative of the past, with special emphasis upon the pioneer period of the county's history, its social, commercial, educational, religious, and civic development from the early days to the present time" by Hugh J. Dobbs; pub. Lincoln, Neb.: Western Pub. and Engraving Co., 1918, 1102 pgs. (LH9151, HeritageQuest images 5/2007; FHL film 1,000,188 item 1)
      Pg.432,434-435: ARNOTT DUNCAN McCANDLESS, ... representative member of the bar ... in city of Wymore ... He was born on a farm six miles east of Macomb, McDonough county, Illinois, on the 27th of August 1849, and is a son of William Wallace McCandless and Sarah (Duncan) McCandless, both natives of Pennsylvania. ... Arnott D. McCandless was five years old when his parents removed from McDonough county, Illinois, and settled on a farm one-half mile southwest of Aledo, Mercer county [Illinois], and he was a lad of about thirteen years when his father ... soldier of the Union in the Civil War, was killed at the battle of Stone River, on the 31st of December, 1862 .... He had become the father of six children, and his widow and two of her married daughters eventually came to Nebraska and settled in Box Butte county. While visiting at the home of her son Arnott D., of this review, at Wymore, the widowed mother was summoned to eternal rest, her death having occurred in 1910, at which time she was 88 years of age. ... In 1873 Mr. McCandless wedded Miss Gertrude Cabeen, who was born at Keithsburg, Illinois, a daughter of Richard C. Cabeen, an early settler of Mercer county, that state. ... No children.
 

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