MARGARET A. GRIER DUNCAN

MRS. MARGARET A. DUNCAN DIED AT 1 O’CLOCK A.M. SATURDAY MORNING AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER, MRS. T.H. TODD IN POE TOWNSHIP, AGED 89 YEARS, ELEVEN MONTHS AND FOUR DAYS. SHE AS BORN APRIL 15, 1811, IN DARLINGTON, BEAVER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, TH DAUGHTER OF GEORGE AND ANNA (TAGGART) GRIER, WHO WERE AMONG THE EARLIEST SETTLERS OF THAT COUNTRY.  IN 1832 SHE WAS MARRIED TO JOHN DUNCAN, WHO DIED OCTOBER 28, 1875. TO THEM WERE BORN FOURTEEN CHILDREN OF WHOM FIVE ARE LIVING: MARGARET J. DUNCAN, MRS. T.H. TODD, JOHN J. DUNCAN AND MRS. CAROLINE MASON, ALL OF MOUNT AYR; GEORGE DUNCAN OF ENON, PA.  IN HER EARLY YOUTH SHE UNITED WITH THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND LATER TRANSFERRED HER MEMBERSHIP TO THE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF MOUNT AYR OF WHICH BODY SHE WAS FAITHFUL AND CONSISTENT MEMBER AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH. THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED MONDAY AT 3 O’CLOCK P.M. FROM THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BY HER PASTOR, REV. DR. JOSEPH CALHOUN ASSISED BY REV P.V.D. VEDDER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH.  THE REMAINS WERE TAKEN ON THE EVENING TRAIN TO DARLINGTON, PA FOR INTERMENT.