Transcribed by Ann Selvig, from:  Allerton, Iowa Centennial,
July 5-6 1874 -1974, 100 Years

DUNCAN

     In 1868 William and Eliza Duncan and their ten children and families moved to a farm on sec. 6, Warren Township, 3 ½ miles N.W. of Allerton.  William’s family had been part of an anti-slavery group of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who had left their farms in Blount County, Tenn., in 1851, traveling by covered wagon and then by boat up the Mississippi Rover to Louisa County, Iowa.  Of William and Eliza Duncan’s ten children, 4 were to become part of families still found in the Allerton area:  Mrs. Janet Shaw, James C. Duncan, Mrs. Mary Robertson Duncan and Andrew H. Duncan.  Also settling around Allerton at this early period were William’s 1^st cousins Sam Duncan and Archibald Wiley Duncan and William’s sister’s (Mrs. John Richie) children.

     At present there are 8 children in the Wayne Community Elementary School who 7 generations back have the same Grandfather Duncan.  Figure that one out!  The children are Terry Sapp 5^th grade, R. D. Blount 4^th, Cindy Bryan 4^th, Todd Sapp 3^rd, Teresa Sapp 2^nd, Ben Blount 2^nd, Sheri Bryan 1^st and Robert Blount Kdg.