McDuffie - Fielding
Note 1: Thanks so very much to JDG not only for this picture but so many he has sent for the GenWeb page :)
Note 2: We are not 100% positive this is Fielding McDuffie but he ties into families here and is really the only McDuffie in the area (any spelling) -- this is also the old McDuffy Log Cabin that is thought to have stood about 2/3 of the way down on the right of what is now State Road 59 (Main St) in Waveland.
Fielding was born to a soldier of the War of 1812, Enoch McDuffie and his wife, Catherine Pope. The McDuffie's were married 15 August 1817 in Harrison County, Kentucky where their large family were all born. Fielding was their second child, born on a cold 5th day of February in 1821. The family moved to Rush County, Indiana fairly early on in its history.
His grandfather, James Robert McDuffey seemed to begin the American side of the McDuffee family (yes, indeed, the family name was spelled many different ways) who owned land on Peter's Creek, Peters Twp, Washington County, PA. By 1815, the family was in Harrison County, Kentucky where Robert served as a Justice of the Peace for five years. Robert died in Rush County, Indiana 1830 having been born in 1756. His wife, Rachel Collins was born in 1755 Somerset, Orange County, Virginia and died 1825 in Claysville, Harrison County, Kentucky (no stone - buried on their farm). Her first husband, Lt. William Murley was killed by Indians.
Two of their sons, Robert Jr. and Gabriel served as circuit riders and by 1808 were both ordained Methodist Episcopal ministers, Gabriel later becoming a Christian Church minister so that he and his brother could move their families to Rush County, Indiana.
Also in Rush County, Indiana was Fielding Delaplane McDuffie's father, Enoch, a brother to the above ministers. All tolled, Enoch had five sisters and five brothers, including Fielding Bell McDuffee, for him he named his son, Fielding Delaplane McDuffie. Enoch was born in Harrison County, Kentucky and died 10 April 1840 and is buried in the Nelson Cemetery in Arlington, Indiana along with many relatives. Fielding's mother, Catherine Pope (called Kitty) was born in New Jersey on the 21st of March in 1797 and died in Rush County in 1867. When Enoch died so young, she remarried to a Methodist Minister, James W. Stallard.
At age 21, he married Harriet Beckner (1 June 1824 Fleming County, KY to 29 April 1912 died Greenfield, Hancock County, Indiana buried Dodge Grove Cem, Mattoon, Coles County, Illinois, daughter of William Beckner and Catherine Six) and they were parents of 10 children. Together in the 1870 census in Rush County, Fielding is a farmer with $1000 worth of real estate and the same amount of personal property, fairly good for the day. Mainly, the majority, except for a couple of the older ones who already had married, the children went with their mother, Harriet to Coles County, Illinois.
It is unknown why Fielding came from Rush to Montgomery County, but he married Alice Margery Lough (2 Dec 1820 Cumberland County, KY died in Waveland 10 Nov 1897 in Waveland, daughter of Thomas Warner Jefferson Lough and Nancy Bushong). We can only speculate why he had ten children with a wife, moved five counties away and married here in Montgomery. One of his daughter's Miranda's Death Record says she was born in Brown Twp, here on 29 Dec 1859 but I think this is incorrect as they are in Rush County in the 1860 census and his youngest child, a son Sanford Clark was born 5 Dec 1861 in Rush County.
Alice died in November of 1897 and Fielding is found just a couple of months before his death in the 1900 Wayne Township census with his stepson, Perry Lough (a dry goods merchant in Waynetown). His Death Record in Crawfordsville is sad with very little filled out. He was 80 (correct) but no month and days filled out; died of gastritis and a general debility; his father is unknown and not known where he was born the mother listed as "Miss Pope" born in Kentucky. It also has him buried in the Masonic Cemetery in Crawfordsville
His obituary in the Daily News-Review was titled, "Death of an Octogenarian" but didn't even have his name correct -- "Fielding Daffer, aged eighty years died yesterday evening from paralysis at the residence of Rev. Kerr. The funeral, which was private, took place at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Interment at the Masonic Cemetery." This agrees with his death record above; however, he has no stone and findagrave.com has him buried with Alice in the Waveland Presbyterian cemetery.
Thus is the life of an interesting man, but with too many questions --
