ROBERT DUNCAN

 

 

     Robert Duncan, b ca 1798 in Kentucky, d October 28, 1828 in Madison County, Tennessee - was married ca 1818 to Mahala O'Barr, b December 26, 1801 in Pendleton District, South Carolina, d June 2, 1874 in Robertson County, Texas and buried in Shiloh Cemetery.

     Robert and Mahala were the parents of five sons:

     Charles Duncan, b September 30, 1819 in Tennessee - married in Ellis County, Texas on April 29, 1842 to Frances E. Parker - a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Hicks) Parker, of Missouri.

     Thomas Duncan, b February 12, 1821, d 1865 in Bell County, Texas - was murdered. He married in Robertson County, Texas on December 18, 1845 to Mary Ann Griffin - a daughter of Moses and Barzilla (Curry) Griffin.

     Green Berry Duncan, b January 29, 1824 in Tennessee, d January 30, 1881 and buried in Eutaw Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas - married September 27, 1849 in Robertson County to Rebecca Ann Curry, b September 14, 1829, d June 6, 1885 and buried in Eutaw Cemetery - a daughter of Thomas F. and Matilda (Rogers) Curry.

     Newton C. Duncan, b December 26, 1826 in Tennessee, d November 12, 1916 - married Mrs. Gilbert Harvey Love (nee Olivia Jane Lewis), on November 14, 1886 in Robertson County, Texas. Olivia was a daughter of Llewellyn and Sarah Ann Susan Lewis. Although Olivia had children by her first marriage, there were none by her marriage to Newton C. Duncan.

     William Smith Duncan, b 1828 in Tennessee, d January 11, 1871 - married in 1855 to Narcissa Parker, a sister of Charles Duncan's wife, Frances E. Parker. They moved to California.

     After her husband's death. Mahala (O'Barr) Duncan contracted with Sterling Clack Robertson's Nashville Colony to move to Texas, a land of "milk and honey." She departed Tennessee with a group of family and friends in the Fall of 1835, arriving in January 1836 at the Falls on the Brazos River. It was the time of the Texas Revolution, and her sons were all involved with the Texas Rangers, the Texas Army, and the Indian fights, while she moved to Wheelock, Texas for safety. Mahala received her land grant in Robertson County, and continued the rest of her life there. On the 1846 Tax Roll of Texas, she had two tracts of land: 4,605 acres in Brazos County, and 369 acres in Robertson County. Clear title on the land was not obtained, and she bartered a large portion of her land holdings for legal fees.

 

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"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 122 column 2 and page 123 column 1.  
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