OBITUARY
Died; at her home
near Spring Creek Phelps county, April 3, 1906. Mrs. Ardilara, widow
of the late John R. Duncan aged 51 years 7 months and 2 days.
Mrs. Duncan was born
in Warren county Tennessee Aug, 31st, 1854, her maiden
name was Scott, and she was married to John R. Duncan at Bloodland
September 19th, 1872 and became step-mother to three
children and mother of eight children, three have passed on before
with one step-daughter, Mrs. Elmer Duncan, five children survive her.
Mrs. Duncan was a true mother and grandmother several of whom she
cared for so faithfully. May God in mercy comfort the bereaved ones
so suddenly deprived of a mothers love and care. Some months ago she
was partially paralyzed, and on Tuesday, morning at 11 she received a
second stroke and passed away the same evening at five o’clock p.m.
---J.J. Watts
The Pulaski County
Democrat
Waynesville,
Missouri
20 April, 1906
Page 4
Transcribed by Laura
(Abernathy) Huffman
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