Duckworth - Alvin - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Alvin L. Duckworth died last night at his home on South Walnut Street after a long and painful illness. The funeral will occur tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, Rev. R. S. Inglis officiating. Interment at the Masonic Cemetery.  Mr. Duckwork was born in April, 1812, in Bath County, Kentucky. In 1829 he was married to Narcissa Walker. In 1856 they removed to Crawfordsville and built a home on South Walnut Street where both of them lived and died. Mrs. Duckworth died in 1867. They had seven children, two of whom died in infancy in Kentucky and the rest still live and reside here; Thomas Duckworth, Mrs. Ruth A. McClure, John C. Duckworth, Mrs. D. F. McClure, and Newton M. Duckworth. Mr. Duckworth had been for many years a consistent member of the First Presbyterian Church and his loss will be sadly felt by that congregation as well as his family. -s