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Descendants of Benjamin Duncan,Sr.

10. Mark² Duncan (Benjamin¹) was born Mar 1820 in Lawrenceburg, Franklin County, Kentucky, and died 1862 in En route to McMinville, Oregon.²⁸. He married Maria Louise Bonapart Bright Mar 03, 1845 in Anderson County, Kentucky, daughter of George Bright. She was born May 20, 1831 in Danville, Illinois, and died Mar 06, 1904 in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California.

Notes 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:
Burial: 1862
Cause of Death: Smallpox

More About Maria Louise Bonapart Bright:
Burial: 1904

More About Mark Duncan and Maria Bright:
Marriage: Mar 03, 1845, Anderson County, Kentucky

Children of Mark Duncan and Maria Bright are:

55	i.	Noel³ Duncan, born Abt. 1847 in Platt City, Platte County, Missouri; died Apr 22, 1908 in Alameda, California.
56	ii.	John Tyler Duncan, born Feb 20, 1849 in Platt City, Missouri; died Dec 30, 1868 in California.
57	iii.	George Benjamin Duncan, born Jun 08, 1854 in Yountville, Napa, California; died Oct 1923. He married Maddie McDonald May 11, 1879 in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California ²⁹.

Marriage Notes for George Duncan and Maddie McDonald:
Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California - Book F, page 306;

More About George Duncan and Maddie McDonald:
Marriage: May 11, 1879, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California²⁹

58	iv.	William Duncan, born 1857.
59	v.	Mathew Bright Duncan, born Nov 30, 1858 in Yountville, Napa, California; died Nov 1913.
60	vi.	Sarah Duncan, born Abt. 1859 in Yountville, Napa, California.
61	vii.	Ezra B Duncan, born May 20, 1861 in Healdsburg, Sonoma, California; died Feb 19, 1911 in Spokane, Washington. He married Mary Ellen Pinkerton Dec 19, 1883 in Westea, Umatilla, Oregon; born Jan 16, 1866 in Independence, Polk, Oregon; died Sep 22, 1955 in College Place, Washington.

Notes for Ezra B Duncan:
Ezra Duncan sired a child with hi maid and was kicked out of the home by Ella. He then moved to Spokane, Washington.

More About Ezra B Duncan:
Burial: Feb 21, 1911, Greenwood, Spokane, Washiington

More About Ezra Duncan and Mary Pinkerton:
Marriage: Dec 19, 1883, Westea, Umatilla, Oregon

	62	viii.		Edward Duncan, born 1862 in Healdsburg, Sonoma, California.
	63	ix.		Susan Duncan, born 1863 in Healdsburg, Sonoma, California.

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