The Hyphen Family Lineage

[Excerpt from The Duckwalls and Allied Families (1972), pp2-3.]

E. REV. LEWIS DUCKWALL & SUSANNA CRONE

Little is known about the boyhood days of Lewis Duckwall. However, he was a sturdy industrious lad with an ambition to be a Minister. About the time of the Revolutionary War he married a gentle woman, Susanna Crone of Maryland, and in 1802 was ordained a minister in Berkley County, Virginia. In the year 1811, shortly after his father's death, he purchased a farm about a mile north of what is now Hillsboro, Ohio.

He first came to his new homestead on horseback. Bringing with him what few supplies he could carry and his Bible. This Bible is still in existence. (I, Clyde Mitchell Duckwall Jr., Great, Great Grandson of Rev. Lewis Duckwall, have this Bible at my home, 1913 N. W. 21, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.) A log house was already on the land and in due time he brought his family here to live. He suffered many hardships and labored unceasingly to wrest a living from the soil. In the year 1811 he was ordained a Minister by the conference in Greentownship, Rose County, Ohio. Preaching the gospel was not a highly remunerative occupation in those days. His greatest reward was the love and respect that his congregation paid him.

The Reverend Lewis Duckwall continued his occupation as a farmer and Minister for many years and prospered as all good people should. He lived a long and useful life. For 95 years he lived for the good that he could do. He died 9 May 1847 about 15 years before the Civil War and was buried on the land he loved so well, the land that had sustained him for half a century. In those days there were few public cemeteries. Most interments being made on private land.

This Duckwall Cemetery is still being cared for. The last of the Duckwalls to own this farm poured cement over the entire cemetery, with the headstones sticking up, so the graves are preserved on this farm one mile north of Hillsboro, Ohio. Rev. Lewis and his wife Susanna Crone are both buried in this cemetery, as is his son, Rev. Lewis and his wife Matilda Dyche and their second oldest daughter, Susan Matilda.