Duncan research files of
Mary Ann (Duncan) Dobson
the Genealogy Bug
Last revised April 3, 2004
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1840-1850 Mercer Co. VA Census
No Duncan indexed
1860 Mercer Co. VA Census
Princeton P.O.
Pg.437, #654-616, William H. DUNCAN 30 VA farmer $0-$65
Lucinda 29 VA wife
Melissa 4, Austin M. (m) 3 VA
Jose (f) 2, William M. 1/12 VA
1870 Mercer Co. WV Census
Beaverpond Twp.
Pg.495, #11-11, SHELTON, Robert L. 27 VA farmer $0-$144
Nancy J. 22 VA keeping house
Mary E. 1, John J. 1/12 b.Apr. WV
DUNCAN, Harryetra (f) 9 VA
East River Twp.
Pg.512, #24-24, DUNCAN, Lucinda 38 VA keeping house $0-$138
Melissa 13, Austin (m) 12 VA
William 9, Emma 7 VA
Brady (m) 3, Charles 5/12 b.Dec. WV
Pg.512, #"22-22", HUGHES, George B. 21 VA farmer $0-$128
Sarah 26 VA keeping house
DUNCAN, Elizabeth 8 VA
(MAD: Should be #25-25)
"The Daily Telegraph" Bluefield [Mercer Co.], West Virginia, March 9, 1897 (transcription by and from Kathy Cawley 1/2004)
Best Wishes - JOHN L. DUNCAN and bride arrived on No. 3 last night. On Wednesday Mr. Duncan met Miss Agnes Duncan of Bell Spring, by prearrangement, and they eloped to Bristol, where they were married. Mr. Duncan is a popular railroad man running between here and Roanoke, and the TELEGRAPH joins with his host of friends in wishing the popular couple a loving and happy life.
"Bluefield Daily Telegraph" Bluefield [Mercer Co.], W. Va., Saturday Morning, August 9, 1902 (transcription by and from Kathy Cawley 1/2004)
CHAPTER OF KILLINGS AND SHOOTING AFFRAYS.
Posse Pursuing Bushwhacker Who Has $500 on His Head.
Thursday morning George Duncan fatally shot Ira Coleman at Matewan, from a concealed place and made his escape across Tug river into Kentucky. A reward of $500.00 has been offered for the delivery of Duncan dead or alive. Parties are now scouring the country in pursuit of Duncan and it is thought that he will be caught.
"Bluefield Daily Telegraph" Bluefield, W. Va., Thursday Morning, August 21, 1902 (transcription by and from Kathy Cawley 1/2004)
CAPTURED THE WRONG MAN
The George Duncan Arrested was Not Matewan's Fugitive Marshal.
GEORGE DUNCAN, an Ohio man, was arrested by the Ashland police, who thought he was the George Duncan who recently shot Ira S, Coleman at Matewan and fled to the Kentucky mountains. The man had considerable difficulty in doing so, but was finally able to convince the Ashland authorities that he was not Matewan's fugitive marshal. Duncan was fined twenty-five dollars and costs for carrying a big revolver and allowed to go free.
"Bluefield Daily Telegraph" Bluefield [Mercer Co.], W. Va., Wednesday, January 14, 1903 (transcription by and from Kathy Cawley 1/2004) (MAD: Williams, ? Clay or Jackson Co. WV)
MARRIED ON A RAILROAD TRAIN.
Cumberland, Md., Jan 13. --- A.R. Eshbaugh and Maude Duncan, both of Williams, W. Va., were married in a West Virginia Central train yesterday while the latter was going at the rate of forty miles an hour. Rev. Daniel Westfall was on the train, having been advised by the couple of their intentions, and when the train reached Williams they boarded it, and soon the ceremony was performed.
"Bluefield Daily Telegraph" Bluefield [Mercer Co.], W. Va., Tuesday Morning, August 2, 1904 (transcription by and from Kathy Cawley 1/2004)
Pastor of Bramwell [Mercer Co.] Baptist Church Victim of Foul Play
Editor Telegraph:
A few nights ago, after we had gone up to our room and were about ready to retire, we heard a knock at the door. My wife's mother, who was spending a few days with us, looked out the window and said she saw a great crowd of people down there. I was very tired, having been hard at work for several days trying to get my house in shape so I could move into it, and I did not feel much like going down. But I thought I had better go down or the mob might break the door down and come in anyway. So I went and opened the door, and immediately a young man hurled a sack of flour at me. Another member of the mob stuck four wild chickens in my face, and because I was too excited to take them, they were at once thrown upon the table. It seemed to me that anybody might have known that those chickens were not ready for the table then, for they were just as live as they could be, and covered with feathers. Next a regular baseball pitcher threw two hams at my head and I almost broke my neck dodging. We had just scrubbed the floor and put down nice new matting, but the crowd seemed to have no regard for that. They were equally reckless about the dining table, and before I could recover from my surprise and say "stop!" they had scattered packages of oatmeal, coffee, sugar, salt, soda, two buckets of lard, several cans of fruit, one cake of butter, two or three cabbages, a bucket of soaps, two or three packages of rice, a dish pan, tea kettle, granite kettle, two baking pans, a frying pan, and various other things over the floor and table, except the space occupied by the chickens. By this time the chickens had gotten very quiet. I suppose they were too badly frightened to move.
The crowd dispersed after so long a time, but my wife was so affected or so scared, that she shed numbers of tears almost as big as the end of my thumb. But on the next day the panic hadn't ceased, for one woman came in and tried to make us swallow a paper sack of eggs, and another tried to bathe or drown us in bottles of tablesauce, etc. Of course we had a terrible time cleaning up again. Such unparalleled recklessness almost overpowered me, but I am recovering now. I don't reckon any other pastor in all the land has been treated in such a manner, but I reckon we will have to thank them somehow we feel that their intentions were good. Since we have recovered we are feeling pretty good and have plenty to eat. If as a rule we could understand people's intentions, perhaps we wouldn't often have hard feelings toward them. If anybody in the crowd meant to do us any harm we forgive them, and with all our heart wish them well. If the mob never gets any worse I reckon we can control them in some way.
G.C. DUNCAN, Bramwell, W. Va., Aug. 1, 1904
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