There is a family tradition passed down which maintains that Winney Cameron is buried on the left side of her husband, James Pinkney Duncan, in the Isaac Duncan Family Graveyard west of Salem even though there remains no gravestone today. Family tradition also maintains this cemetery is located across the road from where James P. Duncan's house once stood.

Winney's last name has long been spelt "Carmen, Carman & Carmon" & Duncan spelt "Dunkin" due to a phonetic or clerical misspelling in a courthouse record and passed on in various publications.

However, Winney is said to be the daughter of Lavander & Hester Cameron who migrated from Marion County, South Carolina to Marion County, Mississippi (both counties named for Gen. Francis Marion "The Swamp Fox" of S.C. - who continually outwitted the British during the American Revolution). These Camerons travelled from Marion Co., S.C. with the Fords who settled around Sandy Hook and it is strongly believed that Lavander's wife, Hester, was a Ford due to all the evidence weighing heavily in that direction.

Winney died (before 1857) prior to James so she was the first adult believed to be buried in the family plot.

James P. Duncan remarried secondly in 1858 to Martha Ann Walker and he died prior to her in 1885. It has been passed down by Mrs. Boothette Duncan Holmes (1905-1998) and others that James P. Duncan was buried to the right of his first wife, Winney.

Martha Ann, remarried and also outlived her second husband so when she died in 1910 she was buried to the right of her first husband, James P. Duncan. Twentieth Century gravestones mark the two graves of James & Martha Ann Duncan with no gravestone on the grave of his first wife, Winney.

Two descendants of James & Winney Duncan (a cousin & myself) sought to verify this family tradition by digging a very shallow trench to the left of James P. Duncan's grave (facing the marker) to verify whether another burial site was truly located to the left of his grave. We sought to make as slight a disturbance as possible. We discovered that there was indeed evidence of another grave having been dug and we also found small broken pieces of old style dishes as we dug. This was a great curiosity to us. Nevertheless, we verified that digging had indeed occurred there and we deduced that it could be nothing else but the grave in question - that of Winney Duncan's. - MES