Joseph DUNCAN

Father: John DUNCAN
Mother: Eleanor SHARP

Family 1: Ann LAUGHLIN 

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                  _Thomas DUNCAN _______|
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 _John DUNCAN ___|
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|                |_Elizabeth ALEXANDER _|
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|--Joseph DUNCAN
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|                 _John SHARP __________|
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|_Eleanor SHARP _|
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                 |_Jane HAMILTON _______|
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Notes

Updated December 11, 2022. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) LAUGHLIN, Samuel Hervey, "A Diary of Public Events and Notices of My Life and Family and Of My Private Transactions including Studies, Travels, Readings Correspondence, Business Anecdotes, Miscellaneous Memoranda of Men, Literature, Etc From January 1st, 1845 to August, 1845 and Sketch of my Life from Infancy"

"Thus, my grandfather lost a number of valuable slaves, and all his personal property. He afterwards, on her being restored after the treaty of Greenville, recovered possession of an African negro woman named Dinah, the mother of an old woman named, Easter, now in possession,of my uncle Joseph DUNCAN in Coffee County, Tennessee. Joseph was my grandfather's second son."

"Joseph, my other uncle of my mother's brothers, as before stated, lives in Coffee County, Tennessee, where his wife (Ann a daughter of my grandfather's brother James LAUGHLIN) died about 16 years since. His sons, Thomas, Alexander and Deane, all removed to Texas, and the two first died there about 1836-7. Deane, who had been to North Carolina, after a legacy of his wife, a Miss SCOTT who he married near Bolivar in Tennessee, died in East Tennessee on his return home, at Squire ESKRIDGE's in Roane County, in 1838 or 1839, from the inflamation and mortification of an incission in his arm in letting blood. Alfred, Jos. DUNCAN's only surviving son, is married to his cousin, a daughter of his uncle John and aunt Polly DUNCAN, and lives in Missouri, near W. MARTIN's. Mr. Jos. DUNCAN's eldest daughter, married to a man named RUSSELL, lately living in Walker Co. Alabama, died in the fall of 1844-leaving children. His daughter, Eleanor, married to George E. PATTON, who once lived at the ford of Elk River, on the north side, on the road from Winchester in Franklin Co. to Manchester, in Coffee Co. Tennessee, died in 1838 or 9, leaving several children. His only surviving daughter and youngest child, Henny, I think is her name, is married to James LUSK, who lives near the old man, two or three miles southeast of Hillsborough in Coffee County, who is a prosperous man."

"The old man lives alone on a farm, well improved as to his lands, but when his wife died, he let a good house rot down which he was building, and still lives in his old cabins. He has ten or a dozen valuable slaves, who make him nothing in profit. He has spent more in building a framed tenement and stone monument over his late wife's grave, in a beautiful oak grove near his house, than in all his other improvements. Seeing the lonesomeness of his life, my father and mother spent the winter of 1838, and spring of the same year with him. His son, Alfred, is an intelligent man, and affectionate son, and urged him much in 1842-3, when he visited him to remove to Missouri, near him-or to rent out his farm, or get some person to take charge of it, and amuse himself by travelling about to see his children, grandchildren, and numerous kindred in Kentucky, Virginia, Missouri, etc. but he refused to consent to leave home, although he had been all the way to see his sons in Texas the year before Alexander and Thomas died. He is an active old man-small in stature-but vigorous, and still for health and pleasure, and from old habit, works with his negroes on his farm, and rides all over the Cumberland Mountains (living at its base on the north side) attending to his live stock, having a large stock of horses, mules, cattle, sheep and hogs. His attachment to his present residence (he first lived on Stones River on the head of Brawly's fork when he removed from Watt's Creek, Whitley Co. Ky. to Tennessee and to Ky. he removed from Lee Co. Va. adjoining his brothers in law, HIGHNIGHT and LOCKE, seems to arise from an unwillingness to leave the place where his wife's remains are interred. I have no doubt he wishes to be buried beside her. My father, my mother in her lifetime, his only remaining son, and myself, have all entreated him to remove, and live among his old friends, but he will not listen to it. Between his labors, and some reading, he seems to be contented. His kindnesses, and obliging disposition have from time to time, for many years past, compelled him to pay large sums for persons for surety, many of whom have never been entitled to his confidence. One Roddie, for whom he has paid large sums, and whose family he has mainly supported for years, is an ungrateful, drunken, mean man."

(2) U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 via Ancestry.com

- Name: Joseph DUNCAN
- Gender: male
- Birth Place: TN
- Birth Year: 1769
- Spouse Name: Ann LAUGHLIN
- Spouse Birth Place: TN
- Spouse Birth Year: 1774
- Marriage Year: 1792
- Marriage State: TN

(3) Mostert family records, August 4, 2000.

"IGI Film #1553399, Batch F508547-18. Also says he was born in Washington Co., VA"