MISSISSIPPI CO. MO
Formed 1845 from Scott
 

CENSUS RECORDS

1850 Mississippi Co. MO Census (also from Vivian Biddle 1982)
Pg.452, #36, Wallis KIRKPATRICK 38 TN farmer $800
                  Mary 20 MO
                  James H. 4, P.A. (f) 2 MO
                  James DUNCAN 10 MO
                  Bridget LANE 75 PA
Pg.474, #393, Carrol DUNCAN (m) 28 TN farmer $0
                  M.A. (f) 26 TN
                  M.A. (f) 10, C. (m) 7 TN
                  M.A. (f) 5 TN
                  Elizabeth 4, Nancy 8/12 MO

1860 Mississippi Co. MO Census
      No Duncan indexed
 

HISTORIES before 1923

1888 "History of southeast Missouri : embracing an historical account of the counties of Ste. Genevieve, St. Francois, Perry, Cape Girardeau, Bollinger, Madison, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Dunklin, Scott, Mississippi, Stoddard, Butler, Wayne and Iron, including a department devoted to the preservation of personal, professional and private records" pub. Chicago, Goodspeed Pub. (FHL film 908,664 and 1,000,277)
      Pg.969: Robert W. Duncan, a prosperous young citizen of Bertrand, Mississippi County, was born in Pike Co. MO, in 1856. He is a son of Robert W., Sr., and Elizabeth Duncan, natives of Tennessee and Kentucky, respectively. The former is the son of Thomas Duncan, a native of Scotland, who came to America when about eighteen years of age, and settled in Pennsylvania. He was married there to a German lady, and reared a family. Robert W., Sr., removed to Kentucky about 1846, where he resided until 1852, when he went with an oxteam to California. Remaining there about one year, he returned to Kentucky, and in 1854 or 1855 came to Missouri, and settled in Pike County, in which he now resides, aged seventy-five years. His wife died in 1870, having borne him eleven children: Mary Ann (deceased), Sarah (deceased), Margaret (deceased), Thomas (deceased), Susan, Lizzie B., Robert W., Emeline, John W., Benjamin and William (deceased). The subject of this sketch came to Southeast Missouri in 1884, and located in Bertrand. He is now engaged in blacksmithing, milling and farming. In 1878 he was united in marriage with Lovinia Tabor, who was born in St. Francois County, Mo., in 1856. She is the daughter of John and Sarah Tabor, natives of Tennessee and Kentucky respectively. They are both dead, and were the parents of ten children: John (who died in infancy), Margaret (deceased), Lizzie, Lovinia, Angeline, Ella, Fannie, John, William H., and Emma (deceased). Mr. and Mrs. Duncan are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. They have three children: Maude, John W. and Elsie. Mr. Duncan is a member of the I.O.O.F. Lodge No. 114, and the A.O.U.W. Lodge No. 144. Politically he is a Republican. (MAD: Robert W. Duncan mar. Elizabeth Garner 9/21/1843 Marion Co. MO; 1850 Marion Co. MO census; 1860 Pike Co. MO census; 1870 Madison Co. MO census)
 

OTHER RECORDS

Some early Duncans in Mississippi Co. MO:
      Samuel Duncan, 22 Sept. 1851, had admin. or guardian Chas. C. Wicker; indexed in box 13, #419; from Mississippi Co. MO Index to Probate Papers, 1845-1870 (pg.98, Vol.13, 3/1982, "MO Miscellany" FHL book 977.8 D2w, from Denzil Mauldin 1984)
      Wm. James Duncan, 5 May 1855, mar. Susan Robbeson (Robinson); Mississippi Co. MO Marriage Book A, 1845-1862 (pg.35, Vol.18, 3/1973, "MO Pioneers," FHL book 977.8 D2h, from Evelyn Sigler and Denzil Mauldin 1984)
      Jas. R. Duncan, 11 Sept. 1857, had admin?. Jno. C. Thomas; indexed in box 13, #432; from Mississippi Co. MO Index to Probate Papers, 1845-1870 (pg.99, Vol.13, 3/1982, "MO Miscellany" FHL book 977.8 D2w, from Denzil Mauldin 1984)
      Margaret Duncan, 5 Jan. 1859, had admin?. Jno. C. Thomas; indexed in box 13, #438; from Mississippi Co. MO Index to Probate Papers, 1845-1870 (pg.99, Vol.13, 3/1982, "MO Miscellany" FHL book 977.8 D2w, from Denzil Mauldin 1984)
      Jas. W. Duncan, 5 Sept. 1860, had admin?. Wallace Kirkpatrick; indexed in box 13, #444; from Mississippi Co. MO Index to Probate Papers, 1845-1870 (pg.99, Vol.13, 3/1982, "MO Miscellany" FHL book 977.8 D2w, from Denzil Mauldin 1984)
 

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