In Loving Memory of Benjamin Franklin Duncan...
Son of Lewis Duncan and Naomi Archey of Greenup and Carter Counties, KY. Brother to William Duncan and Celia "Dora" (Duncan) Carson.
He was nicknamed "Dynamite Duncan". Early in life he was a coal miner and eventually a dynamiter then a farmer. Family lore says he went to Alaska to mine gold and came back with enough money to buy land in Buhl, Idaho, where he and his brother built a stone house and farmed the land. They married twin sisters; Ben and Ida in 1910 and Bill and Ada in 1902 and raised their families together.
I have conflicting birth years on documents and various days in July. Gravestone says 1872. His obituary and the Death Index says he died on the 5th and the headstone says the 4th. Draft card gives DOB as July 3, headstone July 4 and death certificate and obituary July 15. I don’t think he knew his birthday which wasn’t uncommon in rural areas back then especially since he lost both parents at a young age. I cannot find the death date for his father which is not listed on his military headstone. He survived the Civil War and can be found in 1870 census. In 1880, his wife Naomi can be found with her second husband John Taylor, his children from previous marriage and her Duncan children: Celia M. (Dora), William & “Benna”. Their mother Naomi died at some point in their youth. Date unknown. The family story goes that his brother William went off to work in the coal mines at a young age and Ben was sent to live with an uncle or aunt that didn’t work out too well. Eventually when he was old enough his brother came back for him and they both worked as coal miners... Possibly in Kentucky and later on in Illinois where his brother William met and married his wife Ada Stone. Their sister Dora married at a young age to a coal miner James Millroy Carson. We don’t know if she was living with her young brother Ben with kin after their mother died.
Son of Lewis Duncan and Naomi Archey of Greenup and Carter Counties, KY. Brother to William Duncan and Celia "Dora" (Duncan) Carson.
He was nicknamed "Dynamite Duncan". Early in life he was a coal miner and eventually a dynamiter then a farmer. Family lore says he went to Alaska to mine gold and came back with enough money to buy land in Buhl, Idaho, where he and his brother built a stone house and farmed the land. They married twin sisters; Ben and Ida in 1910 and Bill and Ada in 1902 and raised their families together.
I have conflicting birth years on documents and various days in July. Gravestone says 1872. His obituary and the Death Index says he died on the 5th and the headstone says the 4th. Draft card gives DOB as July 3, headstone July 4 and death certificate and obituary July 15. I don’t think he knew his birthday which wasn’t uncommon in rural areas back then especially since he lost both parents at a young age. I cannot find the death date for his father which is not listed on his military headstone. He survived the Civil War and can be found in 1870 census. In 1880, his wife Naomi can be found with her second husband John Taylor, his children from previous marriage and her Duncan children: Celia M. (Dora), William & “Benna”. Their mother Naomi died at some point in their youth. Date unknown. The family story goes that his brother William went off to work in the coal mines at a young age and Ben was sent to live with an uncle or aunt that didn’t work out too well. Eventually when he was old enough his brother came back for him and they both worked as coal miners... Possibly in Kentucky and later on in Illinois where his brother William met and married his wife Ada Stone. Their sister Dora married at a young age to a coal miner James Millroy Carson. We don’t know if she was living with her young brother Ben with kin after their mother died.
In Loving Memory of Benjamin Franklin Duncan...
Son of Lewis Duncan and Naomi Archey of Greenup and Carter Counties, KY. Brother to William Duncan and Celia "Dora" (Duncan) Carson.
He was nicknamed "Dynamite Duncan". Early in life he was a coal miner and eventually a dynamiter then a farmer. Family lore says he went to Alaska to mine gold and came back with enough money to buy land in Buhl, Idaho, where he and his brother built a stone house and farmed the land. They married twin sisters; Ben and Ida in 1910 and Bill and Ada in 1902 and raised their families together.
I have conflicting birth years on documents and various days in July. Gravestone says 1872. His obituary and the Death Index says he died on the 5th and the headstone says the 4th. Draft card gives DOB as July 3, headstone July 4 and death certificate and obituary July 15. I don’t think he knew his birthday which wasn’t uncommon in rural areas back then especially since he lost both parents at a young age. I cannot find the death date for his father which is not listed on his military headstone. He survived the Civil War and can be found in 1870 census. In 1880, his wife Naomi can be found with her second husband John Taylor, his children from previous marriage and her Duncan children: Celia M. (Dora), William & “Benna”. Their mother Naomi died at some point in their youth. Date unknown. The family story goes that his brother William went off to work in the coal mines at a young age and Ben was sent to live with an uncle or aunt that didn’t work out too well. Eventually when he was old enough his brother came back for him and they both worked as coal miners... Possibly in Kentucky and later on in Illinois where his brother William met and married his wife Ada Stone. Their sister Dora married at a young age to a coal miner James Millroy Carson. We don’t know if she was living with her young brother Ben with kin after their mother died.
Son of Lewis Duncan and Naomi Archey of Greenup and Carter Counties, KY. Brother to William Duncan and Celia "Dora" (Duncan) Carson.
He was nicknamed "Dynamite Duncan". Early in life he was a coal miner and eventually a dynamiter then a farmer. Family lore says he went to Alaska to mine gold and came back with enough money to buy land in Buhl, Idaho, where he and his brother built a stone house and farmed the land. They married twin sisters; Ben and Ida in 1910 and Bill and Ada in 1902 and raised their families together.
I have conflicting birth years on documents and various days in July. Gravestone says 1872. His obituary and the Death Index says he died on the 5th and the headstone says the 4th. Draft card gives DOB as July 3, headstone July 4 and death certificate and obituary July 15. I don’t think he knew his birthday which wasn’t uncommon in rural areas back then especially since he lost both parents at a young age. I cannot find the death date for his father which is not listed on his military headstone. He survived the Civil War and can be found in 1870 census. In 1880, his wife Naomi can be found with her second husband John Taylor, his children from previous marriage and her Duncan children: Celia M. (Dora), William & “Benna”. Their mother Naomi died at some point in their youth. Date unknown. The family story goes that his brother William went off to work in the coal mines at a young age and Ben was sent to live with an uncle or aunt that didn’t work out too well. Eventually when he was old enough his brother came back for him and they both worked as coal miners... Possibly in Kentucky and later on in Illinois where his brother William met and married his wife Ada Stone. Their sister Dora married at a young age to a coal miner James Millroy Carson. We don’t know if she was living with her young brother Ben with kin after their mother died.
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