The Times of Long Ago, Barren County, Kentucky by Franklin Gorin. John P.
Morton & Company, Incorporated, 1929. Published originally in the Glasgow
Weekly TImes, 1870's. pp. 133-134.

IN MEMORY OF JOHN DUFF.  John Duff was born in Virginia in the year 1763,
and came to this county from Fauquier County in that State in the year 1798
and settled on a farm near Old Rocky Hill, where he continued to reside
until his death in 1850.  He came of Scotch lineage, whether descended from
brave Macduff, Thane of Fife, who in the battle of Dunsiwane engaged in
deadly combat with Macbeth, when the latter cried, "Lay on Macduff, and
damn'd be him that first cries hold, enough," we do not know, however, he
was a brave and noble in nature.  He was generous and kind, a good
industrious farmer, a sensible man, a good husband, father, neighbor,
friend and citizen, temperate, hospitable, frugal.  In size he was large,
and his heart was in proportion to his body.
	John was a soldier on the Amererican side during the Revolutionary War,
and was a pensioner up to the time of his death for services rendered by
him in that war.
	He wife was Mary Whitney, whom he married in Virginia.  She died at their
old home near Old Rocky Hill in the year 1844.  They raised a large and
highly esteemed family, which consisted of eleven children - six boys and
five girls.  The names of the boys were:  Fielding, Austin, Hubbard,
Wesley, Edmund and Chilton; of the girls: Cassie, Pamelia, Rhoda, Nancy and
Sallie.
	Fielding married Betsy Willis, daughter of Wm. Willis.  He was in the War
of 1812, with Forbes' Company.  Austin died when about sixteen years of
age.  Hubbard married Sallie Drane, daughter of Thomas Drane.  Wesley never
married.  Edmund married Eliza Evans, daughter of Maj. J. W. Evans. 
Chilton was never married.  He was for a number of years Justice of the
Peace for Barren County.
	His daughters married as follows:  Cassie married Robert Whitley; Rhoda,
Wm. Parker; Nancy, James Goodnight; Sallie, Nelums Everett; and Pamelia
never married, having died when quite young.
	His sons are now all dead, except Edmund and Chilton, and only one
daughter is living, Rhoda, leaving only three out of the family of eleven
children now living.
	Mr. Duff lived in friendship with all his neighbors, and he and his family
were highly esteemed by them.  They were:  Isaac Davidson, Wm. Edmunds,
Richard Bridges, Wm. Parker, Dodds, --- Cooney, Mrs. Lee Morris, Cornelius
Burnett, Wm. Walden, John Rodes, Robert Duvall, Willis, Settles', Jas.
Matthews, John Marr, John Button, Jonathan Jewell, John and Henry Holman,
Henry Carter, --- Stringfield, H. Nawkins [sic - Hawkins], James Mentloe,
John Allen, David Warren and the James'.  This formed one of the finest
neighborhoods in the county.
	Edmund Duff, the fifth son of John Duff, was born on the 16th of March,
1795, and is consequently in his eighty-second year.  As above stated, he
married Eliza Evans on the 23rd day of December, 1847.  They have seven
children - six sons and one daughter.
	In early life, before his marriage, Mr. Edmund Duff made several trips to
New Orleans, and walked from there home two or three times, coming through
the Indian nation, sleeping and eating with the natives.  He is a farmer by
profession - never held an office except that of Deputy Sheriff, in which
capacity he acted for several years, when a young man, giving general
satisfaction.
	He is a member of the Reform church, having attached himself to that
church some three or four years since.
	He is, at this advanced age of life, hale and hearty and bids fair to yet
live many years.  He is the only one of the guards living, that guarded
John C. Hamilton where he was executed, from the jail to the gallows.
	One of his sons, George T., a worthy and promising young attorney, who has
settled in Glasgow, was born in Barren County Kentucky, August 10th, 1850. 
He was Deputy Clerk of Barren County for three years under Joseph P.
Nuckols; was appointed Clerk in the Auditor's office of Kentucky, August
17th, 1871; remained there until July 10th, 1874, when he was appointed by
Preston H. Leslie, then Governor of Kentucky, with the concurrence of the
Secretary of State, to the office of Assistant Secretary of State, which
position he held until September 1, 1875.  He was appointed Clerk of the
Barren County Court May 1st, 1876, which office he held until September
1st, 1876.

Duff Whitney Willis Forbes Drane Evans Whitley, Parker Goodnight Everett
Davidson Edmunds Bridges Parker Dodds Cooney Morris Burnett Walden Rodes
Duvall Settles Matthews Marr Button Jewell Holman Carter Stringfield
Nawkins Hawkins Mentloe Allen Warren James Hamilton Nuckols Leslie
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