Nelson County, KY - Bios:  Duvall, Gabriel
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Gabriel DUVALL 3558, Nelson Co. 

Surname: Duvall, Grable, Overall, McCormick

Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887, Nelson County.

GABRIEL DUVALL was born February 29, 1828, on the place where he now resides. In 1847 he 
enlisted in Company C (Captain Rowan Harding) Fourth Kentucky Infantry, and remained in 
the army until the close of the Mexican war. His father, Gabriel Duvall, Sr., was born in 
1787, at Annapolis, Md., and in 1790 removed with his mother to Kentucky, where he died 
August 1, 1827. He was both a farmer and cooper. He was the son of Miles Duvall, a privateer 
in the Revolutionary war, and afterward a coast trader supposed to have been killed by 
pirates in 1787. He was the son of Hugh Duvall, a French Huguenot. The sons of Miles were: 
Thomas, Senate, Jacob, John and Gabriel Sr. Gabriel Sr., married Mary Grable (born on the 
farm where subject now lives, in 1792, and died here in 1869), and to them were born Cyrus G., 
Joseph, Thomas, Gabriel and Louisana (Overall). On January 7, 1851, Gabriel Duvall Jr., was 
married to Miss Rebecca, daughter of Andrew and Priscilla McCormick, of Nelson County, born 
October 14, 1833, and from this union there is no issue, but they have reared an adopted 
daughter, Sallie Duvall. Mr. Duvall has served as magistrate and member of the court of claims 
of Nelson County for four years. He is a farmer, having 240 acres of productive and well 
improved land in his native county of Nelson. He is an Ancient Odd Fellow, but is not connected 
by membership with any church. In politics he is independent.