1899-1902 City Directories. John Duckett was born in 1880 in Georgia and came here in 1899 with the marble and worked as a "stone sawyer" in the shed. He became a union bricklayer and although he was in Atlanta in 1905 working as a bricklayer (Union Advocate Feb. 5, 1905), he returned, married, and raised a family in St. Paul. He died here in 1952.