The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-12-08
CAPT SAMUEL MCKEE DUNCAN
Stricken With Heart Failure And Dies Al
His Home In This City Sunday
Afternoon.

sky came the sad intelligence of the |
death of Capt Samuel M. Duncan at
his home on Sunday afternoon. While |
Capt. Duncan for the last few years
had been subject to severe attacts of !
heart trouble, and on more than one
occasion had fallen and sustained slight
injuries, his health within the last few
weeks was thought to have materially
improved. On Sunday morning he
was up town, in his usual good spirits
and attended service at the Presby-
terrain church. Shortly afternoon he
went into a stubble field near the
family home to look after some hogs,
his sister, Miss Jennie, demonstrated
with him, but he insisted upon going;
the field was only a short distance
from the house and his sisters, Miss
jennie and Mrs. Gill watched him from
the doorway, suddenly he was seen to
reel and fall, and before assistance
could reach him, life was extinct.
Mr.. Jesse Doty and James Hatcher
who saw him fall reached him first and
assisted in carrying him to the house.
1t is always with great difficulty
that we write line in remembrance
of departed friend, and in the case
of Sam Duncan, were we capable of
welding as fluent pen as the best
writer in the Universe, we would not
feel capable of doing justice to his
memory; but here among his home
people where hewa born and raised
it requires no eulogy to commemorate
him, for his memory will ever occupy
a warm spot in the heart of every per-
son in Lancaster, for every one, young
and old, knew and loved him. Warm
hearted and generous, not willing to
share but to give all to a friend if it
should be desired; kind to the young,
courteous to his elders and sociable
with all, his death will be source of
deepest sorrow to all. No more low
ing tribute to his memory than the
love and respect which is entertained
for him by the members of his old
Company, Co. L. I'd Regiment, which
he recruited her in Lancaster at the
outbreak of the Spanish-American war,
took them to Lexington and thence to
Chicamauga; to the members of his
command he gave the kindly care and
attention of a father more than that of
military commander, did one of
them get sick he ministered to them,
were they in trouble he stood by them,
and'if necessary he would have lain
down his life in their behalf, and they
to man both officers and Ten all but
wOrshiped him.
Capt. Duncan was 50 years old at the
time of his death. he was the son of
the late DR.. Benjamin and Jean Logan
Mckee Duncan, both of whom decended
from good old Virginia stock, and
Capt Duncan inherited from them the
innate instincts and principles which
made him the noble gentleman that he
was. He is survived by two brothers,
Judge William Mckee Duncan OF
Louisville and Mr.. John M. Duncan of
this place, and five sisters, Mrs. w. o.
Bradley of Frankfort, Mrs. w. S. FL
kin of Atlanta Ca, Mrs. Charlotte
Warren of Stanford and Mrs Pattie D..
Gill and Miss Jennie Duncan of Lam
caster.
After funeral services at the Presby-
terrain Church, of which he has long
been a member and regular attendant,
at o'clock. Tuesday afternoon con-
Quoted by Rev. C. C Brown,
| followed by long concourse of
Borrowing friends, his remains were
taken to their last resting place at the
Lancaster cemetery and placed beside
his dear ones who had precede him to
the Great Beyond.