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The Duncan Family Connects With Grady Baggett
Brantly Duncan is as far back as the family has gone with the Duncan Family. There has been rumors by older people of the family that there were three brothers who came to Georgia in the nineteenth century. No one has yet to find either. One may have been George and another Elbert Duncan.
Brantly Duncan served in the Confederate Army on 6 June 1864. Personnel Record: Record number 321 composed of five documents. Recorded on Document number 5. He died of Febris Typhordas. Tombstone information: B. Duncan, County K, 60 GA. C.S.A., Stonewall Confederate Cemetery, Lagrange, Troupe County, GA. Main Residence: Walnut Grove area, 88 Division, Walton County, GA. He entered the Military 22 September 1863 as Private, Company K, 66th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of TN, C.S.A. He was enlisted by Captain L. T. Langston for the duration of the war. Brantly’s first appearance in public records was when he bought his marriage license to marry Matilda Head on 22 March 1845 in Gwinnett County, Georgia.
There are records in 1849 in Bumcomb District where Brantly Duncan paid one poll tax of 39 cents. Again in 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862. The above was taken from the 1862 Walton County, GA tax digest of six children living between the ages of 6-18 year, and this fits Brantly’s six oldest children (ages 6-15). The other two children are less than 6 years old in 1862 (ages 2 and 5). Following this assumption then Brantly and Matilda most likely had no additional children after William in 1860 or any that lived there in 1862.
If Brantly stayed in Gwinnett County, GA until moving into Walton County, GA by September 1850, then his first two children (Martha and Margarett) would have been born in Gwinnett County. His third child, Georga W. Duncan, at the time of the 1850 census (4 October 1850) is listed as 1 ½ months old, thus making him being born in September 1850, and the first child was born in Walton County, GA. Brantly does not appear on the Walton Couny, GA tax digest between 1854-1859 and 1861. He had moved out of Walton County and moved to Jackson County, which is northeast of Walton County, GA.
Brantly Duncan was born in 1821 in South Carolina, died in Cannon Hospital on 6 June 1864 in LaGrange, Troup County, GA. He married [first] 23 March 1845 Matilda Head. She was born ? She died in Georgia. Brantly and Matilta were married in Gwinnett County, GA. They had eight children:
1: Martha
E. Duncan, born 1847 in Gwinnett, married 17 December 1871 in Gwinnett
County A. J. Brewer.
2: Margarett
Duncan, born 1848 in Gwinnett County
3: George
W. Duncan, born September 1850 in Walton, County, GA
4: Josephine
Duncan, born 1853, married 26 July 1887 in Gwinnett County, GA W. A. Brassell.
5: Levi Brantly
Duncan, son of Brantly Duncan, born 23 July 1854 in Covington, Newton County,
GA, died 10 November 1934 in Bowdon Junction, Carroll County, GA, buried
Union Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Paulding County, GA, married
22 March 1912 Lucy Ann Dobbins, born 19 February 1855 in Douglas County,
GA, buried Union Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery. Her parents were William
Dobbins, born 1790 and Elizabeth Jeffries, born 1825. Lucy's family lived
in the New Georgia Community in Paulding County, GA.
Senoia Duncan is a grandson of Brantly Duncan and son of Levi Brantly Duncan. His family’s story is that Levi Brantly Duncan and his siblings were split apart during the Civil War, and this is supported by the information gathered so far. As an adult, Levi stated that he did not know where his siblings were.
Levi Brantly Duncan, son of Brantly Duncan, was born in Covington, Newton County, GA. The Editor of “The Carroll Free Press,” Carrollton, GA of the 15th of November 1934 stated that Levi was born in Newton County, 23 July 1854, son of Brantly Duncan.
The Editor of “the Carroll Free Press, Carrollton, GA Thursday 15th of Novermber 1934.” Obituary Notice: Front page, column 6, “Levi Brantly Duncan, of Bowdon Junction, well known and highly respected citizen of this section, died last Saturday in the 81st year of his age. His funeral was held at the Union Primitive Baptist Church and he was buried there in the Union Cemetery, Paulding County, GA.
Tombstone of Levi Brantly Duncan, Citation on Tombstone: “L. B. Duncan, Born 23 July 1854, died 10 November 1934. Death Certificate of Levi B. Duncan, File 31599-34, died of Natural causes. Their seven children:
1: Senoia Baltimore Duncan, born 29 November 1877 in Douglas County, died 20 February 1953, married 27 December 1903 in C. M. Warren’s Residence, Kansas, Carroll County Aabelle Warren, 5 January 1886 in Carroll County, died 8 January 1953 (daughter of Charles Marion Warren and Josiphine Roberson, both buried Pleasant View Baptist Church Cemetery, Bowdon Junction, Carrollton, GA. Their children:
1: Amon Ocyrus
Duncan, born 23 August 1904 in Mandeville, Garroll County, GA, married
8 June 1931 Willa Mae Stubbs, died 10 February 1972 in Athens, Clarke County,
GA.
2: Ira Jeriah
Duncan, born 16 February 1906 in Mandeville, Carroll Conty, GA, married
3 August 1932 Mildred Grace Jones in Margantown, Monongalia County, WV.
He died May 1992 in Fulton County, GA.
3: Alera
DeMae Duncan, born 25 August 1907 in Mandeville, Carroll County, GA, deceased,
married 13 June 1936 in Bowdon Junction, Carroll County, GA Eugene Oscar
Harrison.
4: Eugene
Everett Duncan, born 16 March 1909 in Mandeville, Carroll County, GA, married
[first] 7 April 1945 in Fayeteville, Cumberland County, NC Ola Blance Smith;
married [second] Beatrice Jeanette Stone. He died 6 July 1993 in Bowdon
Junction, Carroll County, GA
6: Lucy Bernice
Duncan, born 19 June 1912 in Bowdon Junction, GA, died 24 November 1985
in Carrollton, Carroll County, GA.
7: Aubrie
B. Duncan (twin of Audie Duncan), born 23 January 1915 in Bowdon Junction,
Carroll County, GA, married 1 June 1940 Winnie Mae Gilliam, died 1994 in
Carrollton, Carroll County, GA.
7: Audie
Belle Duncan, born 23 January 1915 in Bowdon Junction, Carroll County,
GA, died 30 August 1970 in Atlanta, Fulton County, GA.
8: Daughter
living
9: Mildred
Inez Duncan, 5 June 1920 in Bowdon Junction, Carroll County, Ga, married
21 December 1962 John Charles Carter; married [second] H. Lawton Lee, died
10 March 1990.
2: Savanna
Mahala Duncan, daughter of Levi Duncan and Lucy Dobbins, born 4 April,
1879 in Douglas County, died 17 January 1924, buried in Union Primitive
Baptist Church Cemetery in Paulding County, GA. Never married.
3: Olla F.
Duncan, born February 1881, married John Long of Carroll County, died in
Douglas County, GA. She married John Long after he had reared a family
by his first wife. They lived at Bowdon Junction, GA.
4: Ellen
V. Duncan, born 8 June 1883 in Paulding County, GA, died 18 July 1947 in
Bowdon Junction, Carroll County, GA, buried Union Primitive Baptist Church
Cemetery, Paulding County, GA. Never married.
5: George
Washington Duncan, born 13 April 1886 in Union Community, Paulding County,
GA, died 4 May 1909, buried in Union Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery,
Paulding County, GA. Never married.
6: William
Dolpheus Duncan, born 12 February 1889 in Union Community, Paulding County,
GA, married Jewel Johnson, died 24 July 1976, both buried Pleasant
View Baptist Church, Carroll County, GA. He died 24 July 1976 in Bowon
Junction, Carroll County, GA.
Their children:
1: Son living
2: Son living
3: Maurette
Duncan, married Clyde Waters. She died 13 December 1998.
4: Son living
5: Son living
6: Betty
Duncan, born 9 Fabruary 1932, died 9 January 1997. Never married.
7: Mollie Mae Duncan, daughter of Levi Duncan and Lucy Dobbins, born 26 July 1892 in Paulding County, GA, died 9 January 1929, buried Union Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, married James Grady Baggett, son of Stephen Baggett and Ellen Little, born 10 April 1893 in Paulding County, died 2 February 1959, buried Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Paulding County, GA..
Grady Baggett and Mollie Duncan were married 20 August 1916. Primitive Baptist Minister, W. J. Cheek, performed the Marriage Ceremony. They settled in the Hay Community at Hay, GA. Mollie’s parents lived in what was then the Embry Community. Embry’s Store served as Post Office in that community. There was also a Post Office at Hay, GA located in the General Merchandise Store building at Joseph Baggett’s Home Place. Mollie and Grady Baggett lived not far from the Post Office operated by Postmaster, Joseph Baggett, at his Home Place.
Levi Duncan and Lucy Ann Dobbins, parents of Mollie Mae Baggett, lived across the road from the Union Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery for many years. They were both members of Union Primitive Baptist Church. Steve Baggett and Ellen Little, Grady Baggett’s parents, were also members of Union Baptist Church. Grady and Mollie both joined Union Primitive Baptist Church before they were married in 1916 and were baptized by a Primitive Baptist Minister of that Church.
Lucy Ann Duncan died while her and her husband Levi were living in the Embry Community, now Union Community. William Dobbins and Elizabeth Jeffries were Lucy Ann Dobbin’s parents. They lived in the New Georgia Community about four miles from Union Baptist Church. The family of Levi and Lucy Duncan is buried at Union Cemetery, including their son George, daughters, Mollie, Savanna, and Ellen Duncan. George, Savanna, and Ellen Duncan were never married. Mollie is buried in a tomb at the East End of her parent’s tomb. Levi, Lucy, George, Savanna, and Ellen Duncan are all buried in the same lot.
Mollie died with pneumonia on 9 January 1929 and Grady was left with a son, Amos Baggett, ten years old and an infant, Maury Baggett, only seven months old. Grady also had pneumonia at the time, and he was not able to go to his wife Mollie Baggett’s funeral. Mollie’s brother Sonoia Duncan and his wife kept the infant Maury Baggett for about a year after Mollie died. Grady married a Williams and they later had three daughters. Shortly after Grady Baggett married Della Williams, he brought his one and one-half year old son Maury Baggett home. In about 1930, after Mollie’s death with pneumonia, Levi Duncan and his daughter Ellen moved from the Union Community to Bowdon Junction, GA. Levi Duncan’s wife Lucy had died, along with his son George and daughter Savanna. Levi Duncan was left alone with his daughter Ellen.
Grady Baggett owned a sawmill at the time, and he sawed the timber into lumber for Levi Duncan and his daughter Ellen to build a house. They built near Levi Duncan’s son Senoia Duncan. His home was at Bowdon Junction, GA. Bowdon Junction is near Carrollton, GA. Grady Baggett’s son Amos hauled the lumber from the sawmill that was used to build the new house for his Grandfather Levi Duncan and his Aunt Ellen at Bowdon Junction, GA.
Mollie and Grady Baggett were very prosperous in their young life. They owned several hunderd acres of land, along with their new home built in 1928. They had laying hens, and Grady Baggett hauled the eggs about once a week to Villa Rica, GA to be shipped by rail to Atlanta, GA. They owned a General Merchandise Store on their farm. They had just moved into the new house in the fall before Mollie died in January of the next year. The house is still standing. Grady Baggett rebuilt the house by for his wife to live in, since he knew that death was shortly upon him in 1958. He died in February of 1959. It must have been shortly after Mollie’s death that Grady Baggett owned and operated the sawmill.
7: Mollie
Mae Duncan, youngest child of Levi Duncan and Lucy Ann Dobbins, and James
Grady Baggett, son of Stephen Zachariah Baggett and Ellen Elgyrine Little,
had two children living
6: David A. Duncan,
son of Brantly Duncan, born 13 May 1856 in Newton County, GA, married 25
November 1880 in Newton County Emaline Angie Dorsey, died 11 May 1927 in
Newton, County, GA.
7: Mary Duncan,
daughter of Brantly Duncan, born April 1857 in Newton County, GA Howard
Patrick in Newton County, died 10 December 1937.
8: William
Duncan, son of Brantly Duncan, born May 1860, married [first] Lou
? in Newton County, GA, died 18 December 1921 in Covington, Newton County,
GA. Brantly Duncan married [second] Mahala A. Peaden.
9: Josephine
Duncan, daughter of Brantly Duncan, was born in 1853 in Walton County,
GA, married in Gwinnett County 26 July 1887, W. A. Braswell in Gwinnett
County.
10: David
A. Duncan, son of Brantly Duncan was born 13 May 1856 in Newton County,
GA, died 11 May 1927, buried Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery, Newton
County, GA, married 25 November 1880 in Newton County Emaline Angie Dorsey.
11: Mary
Duncan, born April 1857 in Newton County, GA, died 10 Decamber 1937 in
Gwinnett County, buried at Ebenezer Cemetery, Bethlehem, Barrow County,
GA.
12: William
Duncan, son of Brantly Duncan, born in May 1860, died 28 December 1921,
married Lou
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