MARION CO. TN
Formed 1817 from Indian Lands
 

CENSUS RECORDS

1830-1840 Marion Co. TN Census
      No Duncan indexed

1850 Marion Co. TN Census (and from Roy Hall 2/1989)
Page numbers without parens are stamped page numbers, within parens are handwritten numbers
Pg.445 (889), #941, Robert DUNKIN 37 NC farmer $300
                  Mary 32 TN
                  Thomas 12, Franklin 10 TN
                  Nicklas 8, Catharine 5 TN
                  Sarah 3, Robert 9/12 TN
Pg.445 (889), #944, Robert DUNKIN 52 IRE farmer $300
                  James 12, Mary 9 TN
                  Nancey 4, Elizabeth 3 TN
                  Permelia 35 TN

1860 Marion Co. TN Census
District 8
Pg.268 (86), #632-586, James DUNCAN 22 TN farmer $0-$250
                  Barbary 24 TN, mar/in/year
Pg.268 (86), #633-587, Robert DUNCAN 67 b.Antrim, IRE, farmer $15000-$16000
                  Eliza 34 b.Linster? IRE
                  Michael HOGIN 11 LA
                  Richard McGILL 7 TN
                  Julia HOGEN 15 NY
                  Robert DUNCAN 3 TN
                  William HART 28 b.Linster? IRE day laborer $500-$300
District 10
Pg.277 (104), #761-709, Patton ANDERSON (m) 47 TN farmer $5000-$300
                  Mary 40 KY
                  Caroline 19, William P. 17 TN
                  Margaret 12, Mary 11 TN
                  Teracy (f) 5 TN
                  Elijah DUNCAN (m) 1/12 TN twin
                  Elisha DUNCAN (m) 1/12 TN twin

1870 Marion Co. TN Census
8th Civil District, P.O. Shellmound
Pg.460, #22-22, DUNCAN, Eliza (f) 44 IRE keeping house $3000-$500
                  Michal 20 [born:] L.A.Ireland, farm laborer
                  (all children had checked: mother of foreign birth)
                  Mariah (f) 24 TN
                  Richard 18 TN farm laborer
                  Robert 12 TN at home
                  Lewis 8 TN
Pg.460, #25-25, DUNCAN, Isaac? (Jason?) 28 TN BLACK farm laborer $0-$0
                  Martha 30 GA BLACK keeping house
                  Betsy A. 3, Ellen E. 6/12 b. Nov. TN BLACKS
                  Polly A. 60 VA BLACK
                  GILLIAN, Sylva A. (f) 14 TN MULATTO
                  Solomon 10 TN MULATTO
                  THORNTON, George 6 TN MULATTO
                  (MAD: Isaac also indexed as Jason, name written over; Isaac 28 TN in 1880 census)
Pg.460, #27-27, DUNCAN, James 32 TN farmer $1000-$300 mother of foreign birth
                  Barbara 37 TN keeping house
                  Sarah 12, James 6, Maggie (f) 3 TN
11th Civil District, pg.1
Pg.479, #8-8, COPE, John 39 NC farm laborer $0-$0
                  Susan 21 IN keeping house
                  George 3 MO
                  (MAD: John Cope's second wife Susan Faye Duncan, from info from Eugene Cope 1/2003)
11th Civil District
Pg.481, #35-35, DUNCAN, Chesly (m) 34 TN farm laborer $0-$0
                  Adaline 27 NC keeping house
                  Franklin (m) 13 KY at home
                  Charles 3, Joseph 4/12 b.Feb. TN

1900 TN Soundex (from Mary F. Hudson 2/1984)
Marion Co., Dist. 16, South Pittsburg, Cedar Ave., Vol.46, E.D. 93, Sheet 3, Line 21
            J.T. DUNCAN; b. Oct. 1855, 44, AL; enumerated with Vince LADD (boarder).
 

HISTORIES before 1923

1889 "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Cos. MO" by Goodspeed (FHL film 599,833 item 1 & 2)
      Pg.1171: Biographical Appendix, Wright Co. MO. Thomas Duncan, blacksmith, of Hartville, MO, was born in East TN Oct. 20, 1839, being the son of Robert and Pollie (Duncan) Duncan, and was reared under the reign of slavery, but was a single man when the emancipation proclamation was issued. He then came to MO and he and Anderson Hogue and Hugh White were the first colored men who located in Wright Co. Thomas Duncan learned the trade of blacksmith in TN, and in 1872 he located in Hartville and purchased an outfit and has been engaged in the business there ever since. ... He was married to Miss Ellen Vernon, dau. of Lill Vernon, who is the son of Col. Vernon, of Laclede Co. MO, she having been the dau. of a slave in that family. By her marriage with Mr. Duncan, she became the mother of five living children: Mary, Clarence, Flora, Toby and Clara. ...
            His nephew, Prof. Solomon Gilliam, was born in Marion Co. TN, Sept. 17, 1858, his parents being Solomon Sr. and Margaret (Duncan) Gilliam. Solomon Gilliam was also a native of TN, and died there before the emancipation. He was a slave in the family of Dr. Gilliam, of Jasper, TN. Margaret Duncan (sic; Gilliam) became the mother of four children, of whom Prof. Solomon Gilliam is the youngest and the only one now living. Margaret Gilliam died in TN Oct. 3, 1864, and the subject of this sketch was left in the care of grandparents and uncles, and remained with them in TN until Jan. 1880, when he joined his uncle, Thomas Duncan. He farmed one season here, and then (went back to college).
 

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