This information was found in the vertical files of the Genealogy Department of the Longview Public Library.

THE AVINGER CITIZEN
Special Historical Edition
June 18, 1954

DUNCAN FAMILY CAME FROM GEORGIA

William Edward (Bill) Duncan, son of Hinton and Lucinda Duncan, was born in Jones Co., Georgia, Jan. 31, 1831. Prior to coming to Texas, he married Sarah Frances Bragg, daughter of Samuel C. and Sarah L. Bragg of Wilkins County, Ga.

The young married couple made the long trip to the new, sparsely settled Texas frontier in 1852, settling first in the vicinity of Young's Chapel. Several of their firstborn are buried in the old Abernathy-Hearne cemetery nearby.

Several years later they moved to a large tract of land bordering the waters of Black Cypress near Barnes Lake. A brother, Hinton Duncan had arrived from Georgia in the meantime and settled nearby.

W.B. (Brag) Duncan, sole surviving heir of the K.W.E. Duncan's, was born April 10, 1860. As a young man he farmed and hauled logs by ox teams to his fathers sawmill.

In 1896 W.B. Duncan married Miss Lula Armstrong. Mr. Duncan had become a man of considerable means down through the years, having acquired extensive real estate holdings and other property. His varied interests included business buildings, railroad stock and miscellaneous securities. He was a large cotton buyer and exporter for a number of years and did his part toward putting the town on the map as an agricultural product shipping center.

W.B. Duncan died Feb. 19, 1931, and is buried in the Avinger cemetery. His wife Lula Duncan out lived him 3 years departing this world Dec. 17, 1933. The attractive Duncan home with the big Magnolia and Holly trees in front still stand as a show place among the older houses of the town. It is now the residence of Miss Esta McCain, niece of Mrs. W.B. Duncan.