William Redmon Duncan

Birth Date

1818-12-15

Death Date

1876-09-29

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Clark County, Kentucky, farmer and Towanda, Illinois, cattle broker. Kentucky native. Married Mary Duncan. Father of Nannie Duncan, Henry C. Duncan, James C. Duncan, and Lizzie Duncan. Farmer in Clark County in 1850 and 1860. Owned twelve enslaved persons in 1850 and fourteen in 1860. Moved to Towanda in 1864. Cattle broker in Towanda in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 1, p. 91; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, District 2, p. 15; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, McLean County, Towanda, p. 28; U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918, Ancestry, Illinois, 1865, Series M764, Roll 39, Collection District 8, Division 9, p. 36; Find A Grave, "William Redmon Duncan (1818-1876)," Memorial #96804134, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=96804134 (accessed August 16, 2017).

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