CALDWELL CO. MO
Formed 1836 from Ray Co.
 

CENSUS RECORDS

1840 Caldwell Co. MO Census
      No Duncan indexed
 

1850 Caldwell Co. MO Census (also from Vivian Biddle 1982)
District 11
Pg.189, #280-280, Nathaniel DUNCANE 34 IL farmer $800
                  Mary 29 TN
                  Rhoda 12 MO
                  Elisa 4, Ann 2 IL
                  (MAD: ? 1840 Clinton Co. MO census)
Pg.190, #302-302, Ashley DUNCANE 41 KY farmer $700
                  Elisa 44 VA
                  Prior 17 MO farmer
                  Jessee 12, Elisa 9 MO
                  James 7, William 7 MO
                  Rush 5, Tysan (m) 3 MO
                  (MAD: Ashley Duncan mar. Eliza Bowler 2/28/1832 Howard Co. MO, said to be Eliza Sproul, widow of Hayden Bowler per Diane Byington; 1870 Jackson Co. MO census)
 

1860 Caldwell Co. MO Census
Blythe Twp.
Pg.656, #55-55, E. HENERYS (f) 26 OH farmer $1140-$20
                  W.A. (m) 9, M.C. (f) 6 OH
                  J.M. (m) 4 OH
                  Izrael (m) 6/12 MO
                  E.F. DUNCAN (m) 26 MO cabinet maker $0-$104
                  Charity 21 MO
                  A. (f) 3 MO
Rockford Twp.
Pg.686, #253-253, Joseph BROWN 46 TN miller $2300?-$310
                  C.A. (f) 47 KY
                  J.W.J. RIBLIN (m) 19 MO
                  Elizabeth BROWN 14 MO
                  W. (m) 15, M.A. (m) 11 MO
                  M. (f) 10, Berry (m) 11 MO
                  James DUNKEN 24 PA mill right $0-$0
                  P.S. PATTERSON? (m) 22 TN day laborer
Pg.688-9, #270-270, Nathaniel DUNCAN 45 IL farmer $1800-$1405
                  M.F. (f) 40 TN
                  Eliza 13, M.A. (f) 11 IL
                  Celia 8, W.C. (m) 6 MO
                  James M. 3, T.J. (m) 1 MO
Pg.690, #278-278, A. DUNCAN (m) 52 KY farmer $1500-$972
                  E. (f) 54 VA
                  E.L. (f) 19, T. (blotted) (m) 15 MO
                  W. (m) 17, R.L. (m) 15 MO
                  L.D. (m) 12, J.A. (m) 9 MO
                  Refufio BOWLES (f) 25 New Mexico
                  Eliza 5, E.G. (f) 1 New Mexico
Elm Twp, Town of Breckenridge, pg.122 (pg.202)
Pg.773, #839-839, E.B. DUNCAN (m) 23? (first digit blotted) TN painter $400
                  Jno DUNCAN 2 TN
 

1870 Caldwell Co. MO Census
Kingston, Kingston Twp.
Pg.172, #28-28, DUNCAN, Emery 36 MO cabinet maker $3200-$360
                  Charity 32 MO keeping house
                  Alwilda (f) 12, Amanda 11 MO at home
                  William 7, Jessie (m) 3 MO at home
Rockford Twp.
Pg.218, #86-86, DUNCAN, Nathaniel 55 IL farmer $6600-$2100
                  Mary 50 TN keeping house
                  Ann 21 IL without occupation
                  William 16 MO farmer
                  James 13, Thomas 11 MO farmers
                  Jasper 9 MO at school
                  Susan 4 MO at school
                  Charles 7 MO at school
 

REFERENCES FROM OTHER LOCALITIES

Clinton Co. IL Deeds (SLC 6/19/2008 & 6/20/2008)
      I-134: 24 March 1851, Nathaniel (X) Duncan and wife Mary R. (X) of Caldwell Co. MO to John Henry Merscher of Clinton Co. IL, $200, NW 1/4 SE 1/4 Sec.2 Twp.1N Range 5W, 40 acres. Wit. Humphrey Beckett JP, Caldwell Co. MO. (FHL film 1,007,048)
 

HISTORIES before 1923

"Montana, its story and biography : a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood" by L.E. Munson, ed. by Tom Stout; pub. Chicago: American Historical Society, 1921, 2791 pgs. (LH12734, HeritageQuest images 5/2007 & 8/2007; FHL book 978.6 H2s v.2 and film 1,000,175)
      Vol.III, pg.1014-1017: TYSON D. DUNCAN. ... one of the best known ranchmen, now retired, in the Flathead Valley. Mr. Duncan might be called twice a pioneer of Montana. He first came in the ... sixties, as one of the younger members of the Duncan family. Later, after an absence of a number of years, he returned again, and in the early eighties he and his wife were among the first to settled in the wonderful Flathead country, at what is now Kalispell. ... He is of pioneer American stock. About 1795 his grandfather migrated from Maryland to Kentucky, which had just been admitted to the Union but was still a part of the Western wilderness. The family lived there until 1817, and then with wife and five children, two sons and three daughters, the grandfather migrated to Howard County, Missouri, which marked another Western frontier. They made their home five miles east of Fayette, the county seat, and started the clearing of the land and the building of a home. About two years later, while out hunting, the grandfather Duncan was mistaken for a bear by a neighbor, and his death was one of the tragedies of the frontier community. ... The grandmother showed the courage of many pioneer women and with the aid of her boys eventually saw her ambition fulfilled for a comfortable home. The children grew up and married and settled down in homes of their own.
            When the family moved from Kentucky to Missouri, Ashley Duncan, the youngest son, was about nine years of age. Ashley Duncan remained in Howard County until 1848, when he bought a tract of land in the abandoned Mormon settlement in Northwest Missouri, at Far West, in Caldwell County, about seven miles from the county seat of Kingston. ... He and his family moved into that house in the spring of 1849 and lived there two or three years until he could erect a more suitable dwelling.
            At that time Tyson D. Duncan was about a year and a half old. He was born at the old home near Fayette, September 28, 1847, son of Ashley and Eliza (Sproul) Duncan. He was the twelfth of their thirteen children. Mr. Duncan's early memories and associations are all centered at the old neighborhood at Far West. He was early put to work, and at the age of fourteen was considered a good hand on the farm. ... In time all the Duncan boys went West except one who went South and entered the army, but returned after the war.
            Two of his brothers and two half-brothers and Mr. Duncan's only sister came to Montana in 1864. The party traveled overland with ox teams. Then in the spring of 1865, his father, having sold the farm, went to St. Joseph, and April 25th he and his wife and younger children, including Tyson, took passage on the steamer Cora bound for Fort Benton, Montana. ... About June 20th, relates Mr. Duncan, the boat landed at the mouth of the Maries River, where two of the Duncan boys were waiting with ox teams to take the family on to Helena. ... They reached Helena about July 10th, and within a month the family suffered the grievous loss of the death of the mother. ... The Duncan family located in the Boulder Valley, thirty miles south of Helena, and Tyson Duncan remained there until the following spring ... The next seventeen years of his life Mr. Duncan lived chiefly in Missouri, two years in Jackson County, in the vicinity of Kansas City. In November, 1868, he went to St.Clair County, Missouri, and there on November 25, 1869, married Miss Sarah Caton. It is appropriate to look ahead from that date just fifty years to November 25, 1919, when Mr. and Mrs. Duncan ... celebrated their golden wedding anniversary.
            During the early seventies Mr. Duncan spent two years in Colorado, six months in Bent County and the rest of the time at Silver Cliff in Custer County. In the spring of 1881, while in Missouri, Mr. Duncan contracted a severe case of western fever, and in February, 1882, having sold his little farm, he joined a party of about thirty bound for the West and Northwest. They left Kansas City March 1, 1882, ... to Rogue River Valley in Oregon. The stay in Oregon was brief, only ten days. Mr. Duncan ... continued his journey to Portland, and on the 30th of May took boat and went back up the Columbia River to The Dalles, thence taking the trail over the mountains to Montana. ... Here began his second period of pioneering in Montana. His plans being unsettled, Mrs. Duncan soon returned to Missouri, but he remained there until the following April, when ... to Flathead Valley ... April 16, 1883, they reached the Flathead Valley at the west side of the [Flathead] Lake. ... He filed a claim, stopped at Helena to complete the filing, about the first of June went on to Boulder Valley and assembled his possessions. ... Near Anaconda he took employment with a rancher, helping him put up hay, and about the 15th of August his wife joined him after coming from Missouri, and on the 27th of the same month they loaded their few belongings into a wagon and started for their new home in Flathead Valley ... reached September 9, 1883. ... His nearest neighbor and the first settler in that part of the valley was Nicholas P. Moon, who had located there about three years before. ... In the fall of 1884, Flathead Valley held its first election ... Missoula County, Mr. Duncan was elected justice [of the peace] ... the founding of the new Town of Kalispell, 15 April 1891 ... Politically Mr. Duncan gives his support to the democratic party, religiously he is a member of the Free Methodist Church and Mrs. Duncan is of the Presbyterian faith. ... (MAD: 1880 Custer Co. CO census indexed as "Lyson" Duncan)
 

"Montana, its story and biography : a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood" by L.E. Munson, ed. by Tom Stout; pub. Chicago: American Historical Society, 1921, 2791 pgs. (LH12734, HeritageQuest images 5/2007 & 8/2007; FHL book 978.6 H2s v.2 and film 1,000,175)
      Vol.II, pg.133-134: SAMUEL C. WEAVER, Lewistown, died Feb. 7, 1919, born at Myrtle Creek in Douglas Co. Oregon, Feb. 11, 1873, son of James B. and Sarah Ann (Wright) Weaver ... married Myrta E. Duncan, born in Caldwell Co. Missouri, daughter of William and Refugio (Slone) Duncan, both natives of Missouri. Mrs. Weaver was the younger of two children. (MAD: Lewiston, Fergus Co. MT)
 

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