SEWARD CO. NE
Formed 1855 from Lancaster as Greene Co.; name changed 1862
 

CENSUS RECORDS

1860 Greene Co. NE Census
      No Duncan indexed

1870 Seward Co. NE Census
Seward Precinct, P.O. Milfort
Pg.380, #149-149, DUNCAN, J.F. (m) 46 VA farmer $1000-$600
                  Elizabeth 40 IN keeping house
                  E.Effie (f) 14? (4?) IL at home
                  Isaac 7 IL at home
                  (MAD: John F. Duncan in 1860 Rock Island Co. IL census)
Pg.384, #239-239, PITT, Sydney (m) 23 IN farmer $400-$500
                  DUNCAN, Abner 25 IN laborer $0-0
 

HISTORIES before 1923

1888 "History of Seward County, Nebraska : together with a chapter of reminiscenses of the early settlement of Lancaster County" by William Wallace Cox, pub. by State Journal Co., Lincoln, NE (from Ann Coverstone Davis 1/1983; also SUTRO book F672 S5 C8, CA State Library, Sutro Branch; FHL film 1,000,192 item 4)
      Pg.232: DUNCAN. Miss Elizabeth Evans was born October 4, 1838, near Logansport, Ind. Was married to John F. Duncan in 1850 (sic), in Mercer Co. IL, where her parents had taken up their abode during her early childhood. Removed to Seward county and settled on a homestead in May, 1866. To her were born six children, only one, Mrs. Effie Manley, of Iowa, now survives. Three of the children were buried at Seward; a bright little girl (Mary) of eight years, a young son, Isaac, who bore sad affliction during his whole life, and a young infant. Her death occurred in the summer of 1872, and she was buried at Seward. Mrs. Duncan was a most noble woman ... She united with the Missionary Baptist church in her early life. .... She left a husband and two children to mourn her loss, one of which, the infant, soon followed her to the tomb. (MAD: 1860 Rock Island Co. IL census, he b.1823-1827 VA)
 

"History of Seward County, Nebraska : and reminiscenses [sic] of territorial history" by W.W. Cox; pub. University Place, Neb.: J.L. Claflin, 1905, 675 pgs. (LH12417, HeritageQuest images 5/2007)
      Pg.252: G Precinct ... In 1866 J.F. Duncan, ... came.
 

"General history of Seward County, Nebraska" by John Henry Waterman; pub. Beaver Crossing, Neb.: unknown, c1916, 307 pgs. (LH13450, HeritageQuest images 5/2007; FHL book 978.2324 H2w and film 1,000,192 item 5)
      Pg.160: G Precinct ... John N. Roberts was an 1865 homesteader and John Roberts sr., James Brown, J.F. Duncan, Roger Cooper, William Cooper and E.B. Shafer came in 1866.
      Pg.166: M Precinct Pioneer Settlers ... E.S. Duncan on section 30 ... other 1870 settlers ...
      Pg.166: Union soldiers in the war of the rebellion who became pioneer settlers in -M- precinct: ... E.S. Dunkin. (MAD: spelling as given)
 

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