Married John Sanford Duncan on 14 NOV 1837 in Nelson County, Kentucky.

A Good Woman Gone.
The news of the death of Mrs. John S. Duncan at Quincy last Saturday evning was a great shock and surprise to the people of Shelbyville. She was well known and greatly respected by us all and the announcement of her decease was a source of universal regret on the part of all. Everybody spoke of her as a "good woman."
Last Saturday evening she and her daughter, Mrs. H. B. Dines, went over to a neighbor's houxe to make a short call, and on returning home Mrs. Duncan complained of feeling tired and concluded to stop at the house of M. E. McMasters, where she went in, went up stairs and went to bed for the night, having been persuaded to remain all night by her friends. She was accompanied to her room by Miss Blanche Flack, Mrs. Dines having gone home. In a few minutes after lying down Mrs. Duncan experienced great difficulty in breathing, became speechless, and in about an hour she was dead, her folks having hardly time to be notified and gather at her bedside before she expired. The physician in attendance pronounced her trouble dropsy of the heart. The remains were embalmed and brought to Shelbyville and interred in the Odd Fellows' Cemetery Monday evening, Aug. 5th, after an appropriate funeral discourse at the Berean M. E. church by Rev. R. Carlyon, which was listened to by a hsot of sympathizing friends, all of whom could not get into the church on account of the large crowd. Mrs. Duncan was a good and great woman and her death, like the fading of the most beautiful flowers, seem to take away the pleasures of the life we are now living. Mrs. Matilda Duncan was born in Woodford county, Kentucky, June 6 (sic), 1818. Her maiden name was Lyne. She was married to John S. Duncan, in Kentucky, November 14, 1837, and came to Shelby county, Missouri in February, 1841, and settled on a farm near where Bacon Chapel now is, and continued to live there until February, 1857, when she came with her husband and family to Shelbyville, living here until March last, when she removed to Quincy, where she died on the 3rd inst. Mrs. Duncan joined the Methodist church in 1845, and lived a devout and consistent christian up to the time of her death. She leaves a husband, and 4 daughters and 2 sons, as follows: Mrs. H. B. Dines, Mrs. J. H. Vanskike, Mrs. N. C. Miller, Miss Lillie Duncan, Mr. C. B. Duncan and Mr. Geo. S. Duncan, all of whom attended her funeral.
Shelby County Herald, Shelbyville, Missouri, 07 Aug 1889, Page 4, Column 5

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