James Pinkney Duncan

1805 - Bef 1880  (< 74 years)

• Name	James Pinkney Duncan
  Born	6 Oct 1805	Duplin Co, North Carolina, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Bef Jun 1880  [2]
  Buried	Isaac Duncan Cemetery, Walthall Co, Mississippi, USA
  Person ID	I794	Guido Family Tree
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2019

  
  

  Father	Jacob Cullen Duncan,   b. 1776,   d. 1812  (Age 36 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Frances Conerly,   b. 1790,   d. 1860  (Age 70 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F309	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Martha Ann Walker,   b. 10 Oct 1836, Alabama, USA ,   d. 28 Nov 1910, Pike Co, Mississippi, USA  (Age 74 years)
  Married	27 May 1858
  Children	1. Miranda Jane Duncan,   b. 1859,   d. 1932  (Age 73 years)  [natural]   2. William James Duncan,   b. 19 Feb 1861, Pike Co, Mississippi, USA ,   d. 3 May 1943, Tylertown, Walthall Co, Mississippi, USA  (Age 82 years)  [natural]   3. Myra B. Duncan,   b. 1862  [natural]   4. Sarah Elizabeth Duncan,   b. 13 Aug 1865, Pike Co, Mississippi, USA ,   d. 15 Apr 1904, Tylertown, Walthall Co, Mississippi, USA  (Age 38 years)  [natural]   5. Charles Felder Duncan,   b. 1868,   d. 1944  (Age 76 years)  [natural]   6. Joseph Pinkney Duncan,   b. 8 Feb 1870, Pike Co, Mississippi, USA ,   d. 2 Oct 1950, Walthall Co, Mississippi, USA  (Age 80 years)  [natural]   7. Louis Cornelius Duncan,   b. 1873,   d. 1920  (Age 47 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2019
  Family ID	F295	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Winney Cameron,   b. 1813, Marion Co, South Carolina, USA ,   d. 1856, Marion Co, South Carolina, USA  (Age 43 years)
  Married	30 Mar 1831
  Children	1. Mary L. Duncan,   b. 22 Dec 1851,   d. 8 Nov 1934  (Age 82 years)  [natural]   2. Eliza Ann Duncan,   b. 29 Dec 1831, Pike Co, Mississippi, USA ,   d. 19 Dec 1911, Red River Co, Texas, USA  (Age 79 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2019
  Family ID	F299	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Son of Jacob Duncan and Frances "Fanny" Conerly. Married first to Winnie Cameron, March 30, 1831, and had 14 children. Married second to Martha Ann Walker, May 27, 1858, and had seven children. Note that that the year of death on his headstone is incorrect. Refer to the Mortality Schedule, which states "March 1880". The 1880 census was taken the 12th day of June, and Marthan is listed a "Widow". "In 1821, James Pinkney Duncan's mother, Frances "Fanny" Conerly Duncan, remarried after the death of her first husband, sold the family's landholdings in North Carolina, and along with her children and six or eight other families, traveled by wagon train to the Mississippi territory. The Duncan family were among the first to settle Pike and Walthall counties. As a man, James Pinkney Duncan fathered fourteen legitimate children by his first wife, and seven by his second-the last of which was born when Duncan was nearly 70-years-old. Having acquired land (Pike and Walthall), he became known as a prosperous and influential cotton planter-at least before the Civil War, which may well have impacted his resources for the worse, as it did for nearly all Mississippians. (He was listed as a "planter," an occupation of privilege, in the 1850 Pike County, MS, Census, but as a "laborer" by the time of his death.) James Pinkney Duncan and his ancestors on both sides owned slaves (at least a few passed through each household from generation-to-generation, as such men and women are sited as "property" in family wills and testament). Mississippi Reconstruction records appear to list the names of several former slaves (and what appears to have been their "value") on Duncan lands, including the names and ages of what were then termed "Mulatto" child slaves. These children are listed as having duties inside the home, and because they were the children of a white male(s), it is not unreasonable to assume they were fathered by Duncan himself, or else a close relative. It is notable that in his lifetime, both he and they experienced Emancipation, and finally the passage of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, abolishing slavery forever and granting citizenship to all people born or naturalized on American soil, regardless of race. For the descendants of James Duncan, these truths are important to know and share. There are perhaps a great many Duncan relatives-the descendants of those former slaves-whom we might come to know if only our genealogies were more searching and more clear." - contributed by Julie Jordan Avritt #49602306 Please note that there is no proof at all that there were any other children than those linked here. Also, the mention of Emancipation above is significant in that it effected the life of Jimmy Duncan and his family in a huge way, including a great financial decline following the war.

  
  

• Sources

  [S11] Headstone/Gravestone (full date). [S40] Federal Census (1880).