1951, Thursday December 20, The Almonte Gazette page 6
Edmund Harvey Duncan
The death of Edmund Harvey Duncan occurred in an Ottawa hospital on December 13 in his 74th year. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon from the Alan R. Barker Funeral Home to St Andrew's Presbyterian Church where the service was conducted by Rev T. DeCourcy Rayner, Assisted by Rev Gordon Taylor. Interment was made in the Auld Kirk Cemetery, Almonte. He was born January 20, 1878, on the 11th line of Ramsay, son of the late James Duncan and Elizabeth Lockhart. The youngest in a family of 11, he leaves two brothers. Albert, Regina, and Jack Vancouver; two sisters, Elizabeth, Mrs T.R. Paterson, Almonte, and Aggie, Mrs Ben Holden, Calgary, Alta. Five brothers predeceased him, Robert, James, William, Hugh and Sidney, also a sister, Margaret. Mr Duncan was married to the former Beatrice Miller, of Ramsay, on December 29, 1903. The couple had a family of eight sons and three daughters: Mabel, Mrs W.J. Taber, Toronto; Harold died in 1935; Muriel, Mrs W.L. Redden, Kingston; Allan died in October, 1949; Morden, at home; Rae, Mrs A.D. Lytle, Arnprior; William, Niagara Falls; Kenneth, Ramsay; Gordon and Hugh, Ramsay. Flying Officer Robert Duncan was killed on active service in January, 1944. Mr Duncan was born and raised on the farm on the 11th line and resided on the homestead until 1945, when he retired to Carleton Place. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, Almonte, and an elder of that church for several years. He was also a member of the board of managers and representing elder when he moved to Carleton Place. he attended St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Carleton Place, from 1945 and became an elder. The pallbearers were Albert Duncan, William Paterson, Clarence Paterson, Robert Duncan, James Duncan and Ross Craig.