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Noah
Marion & Malinda Frances Heard (Herd) Duncan |
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My gg grandparents, Noah Marion Duncan and Malinda Frances Heard (Herd) Duncan (parent's of Samuel Lafayette Duncan). Photo taken c 1900. Noah Duncan came to Texas from Rhea co., TN (1st to Delta then to Navarro Co.) He was one of the first people to pay for his home in Dawson, Texas with pure gold. He later owned all the land that Cedar Creek Lake sits on, but gambled it away. Later his grandson, Lester Nabors bought most of the land back then sold it when the lake came in.
Family Group Sheet Name: Noah Missouri (Marion) Duncan Birth:
29 Nov 1854 Georgia Spouse: Name: Malinda (Malinde) Frances Herd Marriage:
4 May 1876 Meigs
Co., Tennessee Children:
John Elbert (1877-1929) Notes
for Noah Missouri (Marion) Duncan He
migrated toTennessee, Alabama and
then to Texas where he farmed in the Vasco Community in Delta County, Texas
before moving onto Dawson, Texas from about 1900-1919 then moved to Mabank,
Texas where he owned quite a bit of land. He
owned nearly all the land that Cedar Creek now sits on, but he gambled most of
it away. A grandson, Lester Nabors,
bought most of the land back which he then sold when Cedar Creek came in. He
(Noah) then moved back to the Charleston area then to Rt 1, Lake Creek, Texas
where he died. He
had worked in the coal mines at one time when he was young. Death
Certificate # 86476 1870
Rhea Co., TN census listed with his father and mother 1880
Rhea Co., TN census listed as follows: Noah
Duncan (26) Malinda F (24) and J L (3) note: the L was for Elbert Listed
on the Federal Census for 1900 for Delta County, Texas, Pct. 5, Household
110-110, Film Page 145, June 11, 1900. Listed
as a member of the Lake Creek methodist Church on the Church records prior to
1902. 1920
Henderson Co, Texas census shows: Noah 68, Malinda 66 See
interesting story by Shirley Nabors Smith (great granddaughter of Noah and
Melinda Duncan, granddaughter of Linnie Duncan
Nabors: their daughter) Some
of parts of the family say Noah's middle name was Missouri others say it was
Marion. Notes
for Malinda (Malinde) Frances Noah
and Milindy had two babies that died young and are buried in the Charleston
Cemetery in Charleston, Delta County, Texas. Listed
on the 1900 Delta County, Texas Census, Pct. 5, Household 110-110, Film page
145, June 11, 1900. Listed
as a member of the Lake Creek Methodist Church on the Church records prior to
1902. Died
of Pneumonia (Also had cancer) at the home of her daughter, Linnie Mae Nabors.
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