GRUNDY CO. IL
Formed 1841 from LaSalle
 

CENSUS RECORDS

1850-1860 Grundy Co. IL Census
      No Duncan indexed

1870 Grundy Co. IL Census
Mazon Twp. (indexed as Highland Twp.)
Pg.350-351, #113-113, DUNCAN, Gilbert 70 VA farmer $0-$850
                  Martha 54 KY keeping house
                  Gilbert 23 IN farming $0-$0
                  (MAD: 1860 Miami Co. IN census)
Morris Twp.
Pg.357, #11-11, McNIEL, William 42 SCT boarding house, includes
                  DUNCAN, James 65 SCT works in coal mines U.G. $0-$0, parents of foreign birth
 

MILITARY RECORDS

Civil War Pension File; Certificate 3-7068; for Charles N. Duncan (extract from Sandra Yeates 12/2006)
      Declaration for Original Invalid Pension was requested when Charles N. Duncan was 49 as a result of contracting neuralgia affecting his eyes caused by exposure on or about June 1865.
      Signed by Charles N. Duncan, Born in Washington, State of Indiana - 26 years of age, 5' 9-1/4", light complexion, Brown eyes, Brown hair and by occupation when enrolled was a farmer. Served for three years; enrolled on December 17, 1863 in Peru, Company L 12th Regiment of Ind. Cavalry Volunteers, Honorably discharged November 10, 1865 at Vicksburg, Miss.
      Declaration of Pension confirms birth date to be 5/27/1837. Places of residence since leaving the service have been: First - Grundy County, Ill, then to Shawnee County Kansas in the year 1872 and remained at RFD No. 2 Topeka (Shawnee County) Kansas. Declaration attested to by Albert McClain and W. A. Slvo - dated 5/28/1907.
      Pension Certificate confirms wife to be Jane (Stewart) Duncan; married February 7, 1869, Grundy County Ill; marriage records can be found in Morris, Grundy County, Ill. Not previously married - Living children Harry B. (b. 9/17/1872); Frank E (b. 7/23/1874) and Myrtle (11/1/1883)
      Affidavit by Carrie Lansing (Detroit Michigan) attested to the single marriage of Charles N. Duncan and Jane (Stewart). In the documents for Jane Stewart Duncan (Affidavit signed by Carrie (Lansing), she (Carrie) declares that (1) Charles N. married Jane in Grundy County, Ill; (2) Neither Charles nor Jane had ever been married to anyone else; (3) It makes mention of knowing Charles Duncan 2 years prior to marriage, but text is unclear if Jane knew him or Carrie knew him?? Nor where they knew him from. (SY: Possibly Carrie was a friend of Jane and/or both.) Carrie's last address (as of 2/12/1913) was 778 Seminole, Detroit, Michigan (Wayne County) and her full name at that time was Carrie Lansing.
 

HISTORIES before 1923

"History of Grundy County, Illinois : containing a history from the earliest settlement to the present time, embracing its topographical, geological, physical and climatic features, its agricultural, railroad interests, etc. : giving an account of its aboriginal inhabitants, early settlement by the whites, pioneer incidents, its growth, its improvements, organization of the county, the judicial history, the business and industries, churches, schools, etc. : biographical sketches, portraits of some of the early settlers, prominent men, etc." (anonymous); pub. Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co., 1882, 488 pgs. (LH5025, HeritageQuest images 4/2007; FHL film 825,575 (non-circulating) and 934,985 item 3 and 1,550,200 item 1)
      Pg.72: ... Thomas Rankin, merchant, Mazon, is a son of Duncan and Elizabeth Rankin, and was born December 15, 1857, in DeKalb Co. IL. When he was 9 years old he removed with his parents to Morris, ... His father moved to Braidwood, where he is still engaged in business.
 

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