John Ducan
John DUNCAN, a native of Kentucky, settled in what is now Sugar Creek township in 1818, where he lived several years, and then moved down and improved a place one mile north of where Damionsville now is, afterwards moved on the west side of the creek, and improved a farm, where he died in 1842. He raised a family of four children. M. Duncan, now living at New Memphis station, is the only survivor of the family. He was born in the county in the year 1829.
Copied from the "1881 History of Marion & Clinton Counties, Illinois"