Person:Elizabeth Duncan (55)

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Elizabeth K. Duncan
b.20 Mar 1837 Arkansas
d.31 Oct 1921 Pleasant Hill, Pike, Illinois, United States
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m. 29 Jan 1855
  1. Caroline Walston1856 - 1913
  2. Louisa WalstonAbt 1858 - 1880
  3. James P. Walston1860 - 1909
  4. Margaret Walston1862 - 1862
  5. Harriet M. Walston1863 - 1936
  6. William R. Walston, Jr.1865 - 1948
  7. Nancy Walston1867 - 1886
  8. Ulysses S. Grant Walston1869 - 1891
  9. Elizabeth J. Walston1872 - 1926
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Name Elizabeth K. Duncan
Gender Female
Birth? 20 Mar 1837 Arkansas
Marriage 29 Jan 1855 Pike, Illinois, United Statesto William R. Walston
Death? 31 Oct 1921 Pleasant Hill, Pike, Illinois, United States
Burial[1] Crescent Heights Cemetery, Pleasant Hill, Pike, Illinois

Elizabeth K. Duncan may have been the daughter of Caroline or Carolyn Kerr and John Robert Duncan.

In the 1850 census of T7S R4W, Pike, Illinois, an Elizabeth Duncan, 13, Nancy Duncan, 17, and Malinda Duncan, 15, all born in Missouri, were living at the home of Richard Kerr and his wife Ruth Wells in Pike, Illinois.

Nancy Duncan married Benjamin Shelton in 1850, Malinda married Henry Worley in 1850, and Elizabeth married William R. Walston in January 1855. All three marriages were in Pike, Illinois. For these marriages see Secretery of State, Illinois, online marriage database.

A transcription of Nancy's death certificate says she was the daughter of Caroline Kerr or Carr and Robert Duncan. But the transcription of Elizabeth Walston's death certificate says that she was the daughter of Elizabeth Kerr and Robert Duncan. Found at familysearch.org, Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths.

Jess M. Thompson listed the six daughters of Richard Kerr and Ruth in chap. 165, including Carolyn who married John Duncan: "Richard Kerr's children included Zerilda (wife of Richard Wells), Margaret (wife of Bluford Cannon), Mary (wife of William Steele of the above board of school trustees), Elizabeth Jane (first wife of Perry Wells, cousin of Richard), Carolyn (wife of John Duncan), and Patience W. (wife, first, of James Wells, second of Job Smith, third of Aquilla B. McElfresh, her last husband being a Methodist preacher)."

Richard and Ruth had a daughter named Elizabeth Jane Kerr but she did not marry John Robert Duncan. She was the first wife of Perry Wells. She died in 1862 and he remarried.

Richard Kerr was well known locally in Pike, Illinois. He was twice a Representative in the Missouri state assembly and once in Illinois. He was a 'Whig' who knew Abraham Lincoln, another 'Whig'. They served together in the legislature and may have been friends.

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  1. ↑ gravestone photo.

    www.findagrave.com

  2.   Secretary of State Illinois, marriage database online.
  3.   Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths.

    familysearch.org historical collections

  4.   1850 federal census T7S R4W Pike County, Illinois.
  5.   Jess Thompson, "Pike County History"
    Chap. 165.

    ilgenweb.org Pike, Illinois, Index, transcription at website link, Glenda Subyak or go to:
    http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glendasubyak/thompson.html

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