The Dalles Daily Chronicle The Dalles, Oregon December 19, 1928 LAST RITES HELD FOR JOHN HENRY DUNCAN Pioneer MASON OF OREGON INTERRED IN LOCAL I.O.O.F. CEMETERY Funeral service for John Henry Duncan, 91, one of the oldest Masons in Oregon, were held from Crandall’s this afternoon. Rev. Joseph Knotts officiating. The local Masonic lodge, assisted by Rev. Knotts, conducted graveside services at the Odd Fellows’ cemetery. Mr. Duncan was a resident of Sherwood. He was born in Missouri February 21, 1838. After the Civil war he lived in Kansas, Colorado and California, coming to Oregon in 1901 and settling near Sherwood. He became affiliated with the Sherwood Masonic lodge, although having joined the order in the seventies. He was a member of the South Methodist church. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Cecelia P. Duncan, who is 85 years of age and to whom he was married almost 69 years ago; a daughter Effie at home; a son Monty Fleet Duncan of McDonald’s ferry, Sherman county, where he was visiting at the time of his death; a son, E. L. Duncan of Portland, and six grandchildren, sons and daughters of an older son, now deceased. Mr. Duncan’s widow was injured almost a year ago when struck down by an automobile and has not been well since then. Funeral services were delayed nearly a week in order that she might attend. An interesting incident in the service today was that Rev. Knotts used the old Duncan family Bible, more than 125 years old, from which he read the twenty-third psalm. The Bible was given to Mr. Duncan’s father, Henry Duncan, who was born in 1801. Earline, Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society http://community.oregonlive.com/cc/genealogy 78th Annual Wasco County Pioneer Association Reunion May 5 & 6, 2000 The Dalles, Oregon http://w3.gorge.net/dzopf/wcpa.htm