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REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER MOSES DUNCAN



BURIAL SITE:

Cave Spring Cemetery, La Russell, Jasper County, Missouri

Cave Spring cemetery is a very old burial place in the southeast part of Jasper County and almost into Lawrence County. It is located in Sec 26, T28N, R29W of Jasper County, Mo. Moses Duncan, Revolutionary War soldier, is buried in that cemetery.

This cemetery is really out in the sticks but is on a country road. There is no sign, but there is a very old country school on the property with a sign on it that tells it's history. Cave Spring cemetery is still being used (2004). There are several hundred graves in the cemetery.

Moses Duncan (1764-1845) may have been the original landowner of the land where the cemetery and church/school is located. The DAR has placed a plaque on his grave.

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There is both an SAR marker and a DAR marker at his grave: The SAR marker says:

S-A-R
1776
This is embedded in stone with the soldier's name engraved underneath:

MOSES DUNCAN

The DAR marker at his grave says:

REVOLUTIONARY
SOLDIER
MOSES DUNCAN
1764-1845
PLACED BY RHODA FAIRCHILD CHAPTER
DAR

___________________________

Moses Duncan was born in Newberry Co. SC in 1764. During the Revolutionary War he served in the South Carolina Militia with Roebuck's Regiment, and was at the Battle of Charleston. He also served in the War of 1812 as a member of Capt. James Tunnell's Co. of the East Tennessee Militia.

Moses married, probably in South Carolina, Sarah ----, ca 1788, and migrated to Sumner Co. TN. In 1828, the year his son William married Eliza Potts, Moses and Sarah and William and Eliza joined a wagon train and migrated to Springfield [Sangamon Co.], IL. There Moses owned several houses in the city and some farmlands near the city.

In 1833 Moses and William Duncan moved to the Cave Spring community in Jasper Co. MO. He died in 1845.


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Last updated May 15, 2005.


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