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The Dalles Daily Chronicle
The Dalles, Oregon
December 19, 1928
Last Rites Held For Mr. John Henry Duncan
Pioneer MASON OF OREGON INTERRED IN LOCAL I.O.O.F. CEMETERY
Funeral service for John Henry Duncan, 91, one of the oldest Masons in
Oregon, were held from Crandall’s this afternoon. Rev. Joseph Knotts
officiating. The local
Masonic lodge, assisted by Rev. Knotts, conducted graveside services at
the Odd Fellows’ cemetery.
Mr. Duncan was a resident of Sherwood. He was born in Missouri February
21, 1838. After the Civil war he lived in Kansas, Colorado and
California, coming to Oregon in 1901 and settling near Sherwood. He
became affiliated with the Sherwood Masonic lodge, although having
joined the order in the seventies. He was a member of the South
Methodist church.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Cecelia P. Duncan, who is 85 years of
age and to whom he was married almost 69 years ago; a daughter Effie at
home; a son Monty Fleet Duncan of McDonald’s ferry, Sherman county,
where he was visiting at the time of his death; a son, E. L. Duncan of
Portland, and six grandchildren, sons and daughters of an older son, now
deceased.
Mr. Duncan’s widow was injured almost a year ago when struck down by an
automobile and has not been well since then. Funeral services were
delayed nearly a week in order that she might attend.
An interesting incident in the service today was that Rev. Knotts used
the old Duncan family Bible, more than 125 years old, from which he read
the twenty-third psalm. The Bible was given to Mr. Duncan’s father,
Henry Duncan, who was born in 1801.
