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View Tree for Mark DuncanMark Duncan (b. March 1820, d. 1862)

Mark Duncan (son of Benjamin Duncan and Susannah Hawkins) was born March 1820 in Lawrenceburg, Franklin County, Kentucky, and died 1862 in En route to McMinville, Oregon.109. He married Maria Louise Bonapart Bright on March 03, 1845 in Anderson County, Kentucky, daughter of George Bright.

 Includes NotesNotes for Mark Duncan:
This account was written by a grandchild of Mark Duncan & Maria Bright. The letter was handed down to Robert Owen Duncan, 3rd great grandson of Mark & Maria and is now in his possession.

Shortly after Mark Duncan & Maria Bright married they sold their lands to his brother Matthew Duncan and his wife Virginia Utterback. They emigrated from Kentucky to Platt City, Missouri about 1846 where their first two children, Noel and John, were born.

When the "Gold Rush" of 1849 started, Mark left his family in Platt City and crossed the plains to California. In 1852, or there about, he sent for his family. They are said to have crossed the plains in a covered wagon with Kit Carson as guide part of the way. They joined Mark at Yountville, Napa County, California and there George Duncan was born in 1854.

From Yountsville, the family moved to a ranch on the Russian River near Heraldsburg, Sonoma County, California. Later Mark sold the ranch and set up a tannery business in Heraldsburg. While living in Heraldsburg more children were born to Mark & Maria.

Hearing fabulous tales of the fertile green lands of Oregon he sold the tannery business and moved his family to a ranch near McMinnville, Oregon. In 1862 on one of the trips to settle up his affairs in Heraldsburg and move his family by wagon he contracted Smallpox and died en route to McMinnville.

Maria Bright had married Mark when she was not yet 14 and from that time on her life was a saga of adventure and hardship. After Marks's death, she married Sam Staggs, a school teacher and lived on the ranch in McMinnville, Oregon until 1896 when she moved to a home she owned in Santa Rosa. She died March 6, 1904 at he son Edward's house.

More About Mark Duncan and Maria Louise Bonapart Bright:
Marriage: March 03, 1845, Anderson County, Kentucky.

Children of Mark Duncan and Maria Louise Bonapart Bright are:
  1. Noel Duncan, b. Abt. 1847, Platt City, Platte County, Missouri, d. April 22, 1908, Alameda, California.
  2. John Tyler Duncan, b. February 20, 1849, Platt City, Missouri, d. December 30, 1868, California.
  3. George Benjamin Duncan, b. June 08, 1854, Yountville, Napa, California, d. October 1923.
  4. William Duncan, b. 1857, d. date unknown.
  5. Mathew Bright Duncan, b. November 30, 1858, Yountville, Napa, California, d. November 1913.
  6. Sarah Duncan, b. Abt. 1859, Yountville, Napa, California, d. date unknown.
  7. +Ezra B Duncan, b. May 20, 1861, Healdsburg, Sonoma, California, d. February 19, 1911, Spokane, Washington.
  8. Edward Duncan, b. 1862, Healdsburg, Sonoma, California, d. date unknown.
  9. Susan Duncan, b. 1863, Healdsburg, Sonoma, California, d. date unknown.
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