I have just read several statements that seem to disassociate the Duncan's from the OK and MO area from the Duncan's from the AL, LA, KY and NC areas. I feel you all are very wrong. It is a very well know fact in our family that John Pickens Duncan and two other brothers came toward AL in the late 1800's from the North Carolina area. There were other family members that left shortly thereafter and headed in a more westernly fashion. Due to the fact that this was a large family, and some did not read or write, they did not go in the direction they assumed the first ones had went and sorta got lost and ended up in AR, OK and MO. The reason we know this so well is because one of my great grandfathers (Arlander Duncan) sisters left the AL area headed to where some of her other relatives were and was not heard from again for a very long time. When she returned she had married a Cajun decent man and had been living in the AR/MO area. In the 1950's one of Arlander's children visited with the family in OK and found that they were all from the same decent. I think you will find that John, James, William, Mary and Virginia are very common names in the Duncan families. My grandmother was Vergie Bell Duncan