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Subject: [SW_VA] Spensor Duncan & Annie Akers info
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 01:25:37 EDT

I'm posting to this list to see if anyone can help me with these brick walls
that I just can't break out of. Although most of the information I've found
have been in Floyd and Montgomery County, I'm hoping someone in neighboring
Southwest Virginia counties can help me out!!

Seeking information on Annie Aker's parents. Her name may have been Anna. She
married Spencer Duncan. His name may have been spelled Spensor. His parents
are Blanch Duncan, Sr., and Nancy Reed. Spensor's grandparents are John
Duncan and Elizabeth Ann Holtzclaw. Based on the 1850 Census, Annie was born
approximately in 1810 in or around Montgomery County, Virginia. In the 1870
Census, they are living in Floyd County. Her husband, Spensor, was born
approximately 1818. Here they are in a few censuses:

1850:
41st District, Montgomery Co, Virginia
Page - 50, Family # 673
Spencer Duncan.................m..32...VA
Ann Duncan........................f...40...VA
James (s/b Jane?) Duncan...f...13...VA
Ellendor Duncan..................f...11...VA
Sampson Duncan...............m...9...VA
Major Duncan.....................m...7...VA
Nancy Duncan....................f.. .3...VA


1860:
Christianburg P.O., Montgomery Co. VA Census
Page - 616
Spencer Duncan......m...45...VA...farmer
Annie Duncan..........f....45...VA
Jane Duncan...........f....20...VA
Ellender Duncan......f...18....VA
Sampson Duncan...m...15...VA
Major Duncan........m...13...VA
Nancy Duncan........f....11...VA
Frances Duncan.....f.....7...VA


1870:
Alum Ridge Twp, Floyd Co, Virginia
Page - 4-5
Spencer Duncan...60...VA...farmer
Anna Duncan.........57...VA...keeping house
Nancy Duncan.......22...VA...without occupation
Francis Duncan.....16....VA...at home
Mary Duncan..........4....VA


1880:
Census Place: Alum Ridge, Floyd, Virginia
Source: FHL Film 1255365 National Archives Film T9-1365 Page 272B
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Spensor DUNCAN Self M M W 60 VA
Occ: Farmer Fa: VA Mo: VA
Anna DUNCAN Wife F M W 65 VA
Occ: Keeping House Fa: VA Mo: VA
William H. DUNCAN GSon M S W 10 VA
Fa: VA Mo: VA

Further, Spensor and Annie's daughter, Nancy Duncan, had two children, Mary
Ann Duncan and Judge Duncan, before she married in 1877 to Edward David
Kennett. In 1879, Mary and Edward David Kennett had their own son, Spensor
Kennett. They also had a nephew living with them in 1880. Here is some
information on this family.

Families of Floyd Co, Virginia / marriages -
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~barbr/Cont.htm
.......groom........................bride..............year...register...page
Kennette, Edward D....Duncan, Nancy.....1877.......3..........54


1880:
Census Place: Alum Ridge, Floyd, Virginia
Source: FHL Film 1255365 National Archives Film T9-1365 Page 272A
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
David KENNETT Self M M W 21 VA
Occ: Farm Laborer Fa: VA Mo: VA
Nancy KENNETT Wife F M W 33 VA
Occ: Keeping House Fa: VA Mo: VA
Mary A. DUNCAN Dau F S W 17 VA
Occ: At Home Fa: VA Mo: VA
Judge DUNCAN Son M S W 5 VA
Fa: VA Mo: VA
Spensor KENNETT Son M S W 1 VA
Fa: VA Mo: VA
Thomas A. SANNER Nephew M S W 3 VA
Fa: VA Mo: VA


Any information on this family would be appreciated, especially in regards to
Annie (Anna) Aker's parents. Also, any information on her husband's mother,
Nancy Reed who married Blanch Duncan, Sr., would be appreciated too.

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