L. A. Duncan, of Lake Butler, died at his home in that place last Friday morning, April 15, 1921. The funeral services were held at the family residence Saturday afternoon at four
o'clock, the Reverends S. S. Proctor and J. D. Major, Baptist and Methodists ministers, conducting the services. The funeral was attended by more than a thousand sorrowing relatives and friends from the states of Florida and Georgia. The floral offerings were very profuse and beautiful.
Mr. Duncan had been actively engaged in business in Lake Butler for the last thirty years, conducting a large mercantile business, and being a buyer of Sea Island cotton in large quantities. Last year he sold seven hundred bales of Sea Island cotton at $1 per pound, realizing more than $250,000 for the lot.
Mr. Duncan was a man of large heart, and was always ready to help the needy and distressed. His generosity was so well known that he was often imposed on, but as he said he had rather take the chance of helping an impostor than to refuse a man when he might be needy. What the community thought of him was shown by the more than one hundred automobiles that were in the funeral cortege.
Mr. Duncan is survived by a wife and five children, three sons and two daughters. The sons are Kasper G. Duncan, who is in his junior year in the University of Florida, and L. A. Duncan, Jr., and Thomas Eldred Duncan, both of whom are with their mother. The daughters are Mrs. Garland Parnell, of Eldorado, Ark., and Carolyn, the baby girl, who is with her mother.
Mr. Duncan was quite well known in Gainesville, he having been a half brother of Attorney Thos. W. Fielding, of this city, and frequently visiting this city- Gainesville News.
The Bradford County Telegraph
Starke, Florida
Friday April 22, 1921 Page 4
o'clock, the Reverends S. S. Proctor and J. D. Major, Baptist and Methodists ministers, conducting the services. The funeral was attended by more than a thousand sorrowing relatives and friends from the states of Florida and Georgia. The floral offerings were very profuse and beautiful.
Mr. Duncan had been actively engaged in business in Lake Butler for the last thirty years, conducting a large mercantile business, and being a buyer of Sea Island cotton in large quantities. Last year he sold seven hundred bales of Sea Island cotton at $1 per pound, realizing more than $250,000 for the lot.
Mr. Duncan was a man of large heart, and was always ready to help the needy and distressed. His generosity was so well known that he was often imposed on, but as he said he had rather take the chance of helping an impostor than to refuse a man when he might be needy. What the community thought of him was shown by the more than one hundred automobiles that were in the funeral cortege.
Mr. Duncan is survived by a wife and five children, three sons and two daughters. The sons are Kasper G. Duncan, who is in his junior year in the University of Florida, and L. A. Duncan, Jr., and Thomas Eldred Duncan, both of whom are with their mother. The daughters are Mrs. Garland Parnell, of Eldorado, Ark., and Carolyn, the baby girl, who is with her mother.
Mr. Duncan was quite well known in Gainesville, he having been a half brother of Attorney Thos. W. Fielding, of this city, and frequently visiting this city- Gainesville News.
The Bradford County Telegraph
Starke, Florida
Friday April 22, 1921 Page 4
L. A. Duncan, of Lake Butler, died at his home in that place last Friday morning, April 15, 1921. The funeral services were held at the family residence Saturday afternoon at four
o'clock, the Reverends S. S. Proctor and J. D. Major, Baptist and Methodists ministers, conducting the services. The funeral was attended by more than a thousand sorrowing relatives and friends from the states of Florida and Georgia. The floral offerings were very profuse and beautiful.
Mr. Duncan had been actively engaged in business in Lake Butler for the last thirty years, conducting a large mercantile business, and being a buyer of Sea Island cotton in large quantities. Last year he sold seven hundred bales of Sea Island cotton at $1 per pound, realizing more than $250,000 for the lot.
Mr. Duncan was a man of large heart, and was always ready to help the needy and distressed. His generosity was so well known that he was often imposed on, but as he said he had rather take the chance of helping an impostor than to refuse a man when he might be needy. What the community thought of him was shown by the more than one hundred automobiles that were in the funeral cortege.
Mr. Duncan is survived by a wife and five children, three sons and two daughters. The sons are Kasper G. Duncan, who is in his junior year in the University of Florida, and L. A. Duncan, Jr., and Thomas Eldred Duncan, both of whom are with their mother. The daughters are Mrs. Garland Parnell, of Eldorado, Ark., and Carolyn, the baby girl, who is with her mother.
Mr. Duncan was quite well known in Gainesville, he having been a half brother of Attorney Thos. W. Fielding, of this city, and frequently visiting this city- Gainesville News.
The Bradford County Telegraph
Starke, Florida
Friday April 22, 1921 Page 4
o'clock, the Reverends S. S. Proctor and J. D. Major, Baptist and Methodists ministers, conducting the services. The funeral was attended by more than a thousand sorrowing relatives and friends from the states of Florida and Georgia. The floral offerings were very profuse and beautiful.
Mr. Duncan had been actively engaged in business in Lake Butler for the last thirty years, conducting a large mercantile business, and being a buyer of Sea Island cotton in large quantities. Last year he sold seven hundred bales of Sea Island cotton at $1 per pound, realizing more than $250,000 for the lot.
Mr. Duncan was a man of large heart, and was always ready to help the needy and distressed. His generosity was so well known that he was often imposed on, but as he said he had rather take the chance of helping an impostor than to refuse a man when he might be needy. What the community thought of him was shown by the more than one hundred automobiles that were in the funeral cortege.
Mr. Duncan is survived by a wife and five children, three sons and two daughters. The sons are Kasper G. Duncan, who is in his junior year in the University of Florida, and L. A. Duncan, Jr., and Thomas Eldred Duncan, both of whom are with their mother. The daughters are Mrs. Garland Parnell, of Eldorado, Ark., and Carolyn, the baby girl, who is with her mother.
Mr. Duncan was quite well known in Gainesville, he having been a half brother of Attorney Thos. W. Fielding, of this city, and frequently visiting this city- Gainesville News.
The Bradford County Telegraph
Starke, Florida
Friday April 22, 1921 Page 4
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