DeKALB CO. IN
Formed 1835 from Allen, Lagrange
 

CENSUS RECORDS

1840-1850 DeKalb Co. IN Census
      No Duncan indexed

1860 DeKalb Co. IN Census (and info from Roxann Shafer)
Smithfield
Pg.49, #357-354, George H. DUNCAN 32 PA farmer $1500-$500
                  Mary C. 30 OH
                  Mina May (f) 2 IN
                  Joseph SACHAMYRE 16 OH farm hand
Pg.59, #430-428, George J. DUNCAN 56 PA farmer $2500-$800
                  Mary 55 PA
                  Mary 28, Margaret 26 PA
                  Andrew B. 24 OH (blank) $0-$500
                  John 22 OH farm hand $0-$100
                  James R. 21 OH house carpenter
                  William 19 OH farm hand
                  Benjamin L. 17 OH house carpenter
                  Robert T. 10 OH
                  Amanda INGERSOLL 12 IN
                  (MAD: 1850 Holmes Co. OH census)
Jackson
Pg.286, #225-228, William ESSY 34 OH farmer $3000-$750
                  Elizabeth 31 OH
                  Margaret A. DUNCAN 12 OH
                  Ada J?. Essy 8, John 6, Mary 2 IN
                  (MAD: Elizabeth Duncan mar. William Essig 10/23/1851)
Pg.298, #313-316, Elizabeth DUNCAN? 80 MD (blank) $2000-$150
                  Miranda SPENCER? 21 NY
 

1870 DeKalb Co. IN Census
Jackson Twp.
Pg.322, #118-118, ESSEY, William 48 OH farmer $10,000-$1575
                  Elizabeth 32? (42?) (written over) OH keeping house
                  John 16, Adda (f) 13 IN
                  Mary 11, George 9, Clara 7 IN
                  William 5, Elizabeth 5 IN
                  DUNCAN, Margaret 22 OH
                  (MAD: ages as given)
Smithfield Twp. (fading ink)
Pg.373, #97-98, DUNCAN, George H. 42 PA farmer $6000-$1350
                  Jane 31 OH keeping house
                  Amine? (Anione? Arnine?) (f) 13 IN at school
                  BUSHONG, Emanuel 19 OH laborer
Pg.375, #122-123, DUNCAN, Mary B. 66 PA keeping house $4000-$620, parents of foreign birth
                  Margaret 25 PA domestic
                  Theodore 20 OH farmer
                  Benjamin L. 24 OH carpenter $0-$100
                  Louisa 26 IN keeping house
                  Corban Etta (f) 11 IN at school
                  (MAD: Corban could be last name, but not indicated as such)
Pg.379, #183-185, DUNCAN, John 34 OH farmer $2000-$570
                  Orvilla (f) 24 IN keeping house
                  James M. 4 IN
Union Twp., Subdivision 49, Waterloo
Pg.432, #140-140, DUNCAN, Andrew 34 OH carpenter & joiner $0-$0
                  Elmina 32 OH keeping house $1200-$0
                  BAYOR, Irena (f) 17 IN
Pg.434, #176-176, DUNCAN, James 31 OH carpenter & joiner $1200-$300
                  Catherine 27 IN keeping house
                  Margaret E. 8, George J. 4 IN
                  Luella (f) 2/12 IN b.May
 

HISTORIES before 1923

1885 "History of De Kalb County, Indiana : together with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of representative citizens, also a condensed history of Indiana, embodying accounts of prehistoric races, aborigines, Winnbago and Black Hawk Wars, and a brief review of its civil and political history" pub. by Inter-State Publishing (SUTRO MICROFILM 277 reel 34 book 127, CA State Library, Sutro Branch; and FHL film 934,901 item 2)
      Pg.766-7, Smithfield Township: George H. Duncan, prominent farmer of DeKalb Co., settled on Sec. 16, Smithfield Twp, in 1858; born in Washington Co. PA in 1827; his parents moved to Ashland Co. OH about 1838 and there he grew to manhood and was educated. In the fall of 1849 he began teaching school in Holmes Co. OH, ... 26 terms, his schools being in OH, MI and IN. His first school in DeKalb Co. was in the Bell Dist. in the winter of 1853-4. ... Since 1862 he has devoted his attention exclusively to farming. He was mar. first to Mary Chapman, a native of Ashland Co. OH, who died in 1862, leaving one dau., Mina, now the wife of Wm. F. Till. In 1863 he mar. Jane Chapman, a sister of his first wife; they have three children: Clementina, Benjamin F. and George B. Mr. Duncan served six years, 1874-80, as Commissioner of DeKalb Co. His father, George J. Duncan, was born in Washington Co. PA, Jan. 21, 1803, and mar. in March 1825 to Mary Baxter, also a native of Washington Co.; he moved to Ashland Co. OH in 1836 when that country was new, and in 1853 moved to DeKalb Co. IN and settled on Sec. 10, Smithfield Twp, where he died Jan. 8, 1870; his wife died Dec. 10, 1877; they had a family of eight sons and four daus, all of whom lived till maturity; seven sons and two daus. are still living, all save one son in DeKalb Co.; William B. resides in Kansas. (MAD: see 1850 Holmes Co. OH census)
      Pg.767, Smithfield Township: Robert T. Duncan, son of George J. Duncan, born in Holmes Co. OH in 1848; came with his parents to DeKalb Co. and remained with them till their death. Since his father's death in 1870 he has lived on the old homestead, a sister, Margaret Duncan, also making her home with him. He has been twice married. His first wife, Florence Wilson, came to DeKalb Co. from OH with her mother, Mrs. Mary Jane Wilson, her father having died in OH; Mrs. Duncan died Jan. 4, 1878, leaving one son, Andrew W. Mr. Duncan subsequently mar. Sarah Ann Freed, dau. of Peter Freed, of Smithfield Twp.
 

1880 "Atlas of DeKalb County, Indiana" by Mary Ellen Bowman, pub. by J.H. Beers Co. (FHL book Q977.277 E3b; IN State Library book 912.772 D3281974, from C.T. Duncan 12/2007)
      Pg.50: Union Township. Brand & Duncan, P.O. Waterloo, grocers "(organized in 1876)"
            Duncan, Wm. B., P.O. Waterloo, Miller, nativity Holmes Co. Ohio, date of settlement: 1853.
            Duncan, B.L., P.O. Waterloo, Miller, nativity Holmes Co. Ohio, date of settlement: 1853.
      Pg.51: Smithfield Township. Duncan, G.H., P.O. Waterloo, Sec.16, Farmer, nativity Pennsylvania, date of settlement 1853.
 

OTHER SOURCES

"Hardingers of Bedford Co. PA" by Alice Young Duncan, 1980 (from Alice Young Duncan 5/1982 with permission to share)
      Pg.11: George H. Duncan married 21 July 1857 in Ashland Co. OH, Mary Chapman, b. 1830, d. 1864 in DeKalb Co. IN. They had a dau. Mina, b. 1861. They lost three sons in infancy, Mary died during childbirth. (Mary Chapman dau. of Lemuel Chapman and (2) Ruth Hardinger; Ruth dau. of Conrad and Mary Hardinger.)
 

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