Llano County, Texas Obituaries: Duncan, Hiram Teal, 1932

Wednesday, 02 May 2001



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The death of  Mr. H. T. Duncan, which occurred at his home neat Llano at two-thirty o'clock 

last Friday afternoon, December 16, marked the passing of another Texas frontiersman. Mr. 

Duncan, who was born at Lockhart on March 3, 1852, was a member of a family prominent in 

pioneer affairs of the southwest as early as 1850. One branch of that family came to Llano 

County in 1854, settling on Honey Creek. It was near there on Bedford Creek that Mr. Duncan 

and his widowed mother with her family, made a home in 1866, where they lived for many years. 

At the age of sixteen, accompanied by his brother, he came to town of Llano to enlist as an 

Indian Scout, an experience in which he described in his unpublished history of Llano county, 

in this way.	

	

"We came to the settlement horse back, of course, and reached there in the late afternoon 

to find things astir with the excitement of enlistment. It was in the spring time-wild flowers 

and green grass everywhere. The country was then an open, rolling prairie, dotted by occasional 

clumps of large live oaks. The mesquite and undergrowth have come up in the last fifty years. 

We enlisted in a one-room building, which stood near the big live oak tree south of the present 

courthouse. That night, we, with others, camped in a mesquite flat which in now the site of the 

Judge A. E. Moore home. We slept on the ground with our saddles and saddle blankets for bedding 

and the next morning left on our first Indian expedition."



Mr. Duncan was also one of the men who rode to Llano town after a doctor for the wounded Moss 

Brothers after the Pack Saddle Mountain fight in August, 1873. At that time he was at the home 

of his uncle, J. B. Duncan, where the men were taken for attention.



On June 4, 1872, Mr. Duncan and Miss Harriet Gibson were united in marriage by Rev. J. M. 

Moore at the Pecan Creek church. Mr. And Mrs. Duncan were the parents of eleven children: 

nine of whom are living today. They are: Mrs. John Roberts, of Carrizzo, New Mexico, Mrs. 

Lora Gibson of Marble Falls, Mrs. Phillip Arlett of Llano, Wayne Duncan of Dallas, Ernest 

Duncan of San Saba, Lewis, Slator and Robert Duncan, all of Llano.

Mr. Duncan joined the Macedonia Baptist church in 1872, at Pecan Creek, during an evangel-

istic service directed by Rev. Barton Malloy and his brother. He moved his membership to the 

church in Llano in 1897, when he decided to make his home on the Llano river near town.

Funeral services were held at the Baptist church at three o'clock Saturday afternoon with 

Rev. Jno. N. McKay and Rev. J. J. Garrett in charge. Eloquent tribute was paid to the fidelity, 

heroism and Christian deeds of this good man, who at the close of life could say:



"I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good 

fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me 

a crown or righteousenss."



Surviving members of the Duncan family are: A brother G. W. Duncan of Llano, his wife, four 

daughters and five sons, mentioned above. Interment was made in the City Cemetery immediately 

after the service under the direction of Miles Buttery, local undertaker, The active pall 

bearers were T. J. Moore, Allan Newsom, Linden Foster, G. Groves. H. C. Buttery and Raymond 

Roberts.  The honorary pall bearers were W. H. Roberts, Wilburn Oatman, Champ Farris, John 

Goodman, __.__ Foster, J. D. Slator, Geo. M____, ______Oliver,  J. W. Fowler and ________.