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| 1. Samuel Duvall (b. 1770) m. | Polly (1780) | |||
| a. John Duvall (1800 Jefferson, Ashe County, NC-1870) * | ||||
| b. James Monroe Duvall (1802) | ||||
| c. Thomas Duvall (1807) | ||||
| d. Jarrett Duvall (1809-1881) | ||||
| e. Ann Duvall (1811) | ||||
| f. Nancy Duvall (1813) | ||||
| g. Jesse Duvall (1825) | ||||
| 2. John Duvall m. | Mary Baldwin Plummer (1805-1870) | a. Margaret Duvall (1832) | ||
| b. Samuel (1833-1894) | ||||
| c. Elizabeth Duvall (1838) | ||||
| d. John Duvall (1839-1862) | ||||
| e. Alphia Duvall (1840-1916) | ||||
| f. Mastin Duvall (1841) | ||||
| g. Mary Duvall (1843) | ||||
| h. Thomas Duvall (1844-1930) | ||||
| i. Elijah Duvall (1856-1923) | ||||
| j. John Marshall Duvall (Jul 1861NC -15 Aug 1931 Jenkinjones, Adkins, McDowell, WV) * | ||||
| 3. John Marshall Duvall m. | Sarah Jane Lazenby (1860-1940) | a. Melvin Thomas Duvall (1885 Ashe County, North Carolina) * | ||
| b. Albert Haig Duvall (1889-1974) | ||||
| c. William Harvey Duvall (1892-1977) | ||||
| d. Cora E Duvall (1894) | ||||
| e. Mary A Duvall (1897) | ||||
| f. Emma Duvall (1904-1994) | ||||
| g. Mariah Duvall (1905) | ||||
| 4. Melvin Thomas Duvall m. | 1) Mariah Worley | a. Mabel (1903) | ||
| b. Dayton Ambros Duvall (1908-1937 | ||||
| c. Edna Duvall (1911-1987) | ||||
| d. Earl Livingston Duvall (1913-1977) | ||||
| 2) Dora Johnson (1905-1988) | a. Jackson Duvall (1920) | |||
| b. Infant Duvall (1922-1922) | ||||
| c. Louise Duvall (1925) | ||||
| d. Corene Duvall (1927) | ||||
| e. Bettie J Duvall (1929) |
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The information I received in 1980 when I worked on my Appalachian studies project was inaccurate. I was told that Frances Duvall came to America approximately 1890. Actually the Duvall line that we decend from was in North Carolina as ealy as 1800 and probably were part of the Maryland Duvalls. The first ancester I have record of is Samuel Duvall born in 1770. The first census that lists the appropriate ages and numbers of adults and children can be found in Randolph County, North Carolina. I suspect that this Samuel Duvall was born in Maryland but to date I do not have any documentation. My theory is that Samuel Duvall (1770) is the son of Samuel Duvall (1740-1804) and Mary Higgins (1711-1799). After a review of all of the Maryland Samuel Duvall's of the correct birth years this was the only one who matched the age of the one in our line. John Marshall Duvall married Sarah Jane Lazenby June 14, 1883 in Ashe County, North Carolina. The 1900 census finds the family in Brady Island, Lincoln, Nebraska where John Marshall was a laborer for the Union Pacific Railroad. Jack Duvall (a relative of my dad) spoke of the sons of John Marshall Duvall (my great-great grandfather) when he described a son with red hair. Melvin Thomas Duvall had red hair and was the father of Dayton Ambrose Duvall (my grandfather who died March 3, 1937), Earl Livingston Duvall (born July 4, 1913 in St. Mary, Tennessee), Mabel Duvall, Edgar Duvall and Edna Duvall Mulkey (born April 19,1911). Mariah Worley Eggers Duvall Perry was the mother of these children. In 1910, Melvin Thomas and his father are living in Johnson, Tennessee. By the 1920 census, Mariah Duvall and her children are living in Kentucky. There is some confusion in the documentation because Mariah reported herself as a widow on the census where Melvin Thomas is not listed. My aunt said this did not seem right to her because she remembered seeing her grandfather at her father's funeral. After much searching we located Melvin Thomas Duvall on several WV census records where he started another family. Melvin Thomas Duvall was tall and thin. He lived in McDowell County, West Virginia for awhile after leaving Kentucky. Edna was living in Dayton, Ohio when I talked with my aunt in 1980. No one knows what happened to Mabel. My aunt says that Edger was a ventriloquist. McDowell County was also the home of Thomas Harvey Duvall, John Marshall and Sarah Duvall. |
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| The death certificates for Sallie Duvall (wife of Thomas Harvey), John Marshall Duvall, Sarah Lazenby Duvall, and an infant child of Melvin Thomas are available from the West Virginia Archives. Click on each name to view copy of each death certificate. |
| Dayton Duvall married Kate Moore. They had three children: Evelyn, Russell and Dayton. The Duvall family lived int eh Baldman coal camp in a 3 room house.
Evelyn Duvall Hamilton, daughter of Dayton Duvall, did provide some information about the Duvall family. She remembered attending her father's funeral and seeing her tall, blue-eyed grandfather. Evelyn said she remembered Dayton and Lulu Ferrell (half sister to Kate) arguing about what color eyes the little Dayton had. The older Dayton said, "If he ain't got blue eyes, can pack his clothes and leave."
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| The Duvall family lived below Thomas Harvey and his wife while Dayton worked at the Baldman coal camp. Once after Dayton had "whipped" one of the children, Evelyn recalls her grandmother taking a shoe and whipping him with a shoe while saying, "If you can whip yours I can whip mine." Evelyn said that she remembers Grandmother Duvall's white hair and her children taking turns sitting up with her in Pennhook. She was dying of cancer and her son Dayton was reluctant to give his mother medicine. One time he tricked his mother into going an hour and a half beyond the time for her shot. | ||
| My aunt remembered when my father was born at the Duvall home. She remembered playing tag and hide and go seek. That evening she went to Hillard's home and her father came and got her. Dayton switched her all the way home. Evelyn recalled that when her daddy would switch her she would run ahead of him. Her mother would always tell her to not run from her dad because it made him madder. My aunt said but I always did anyway. |
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Evelyn said that she remembered watching her father shave when he was going to sit with his mother. She remembers thinking "I have the prettiest daddy in the world."
Evelyn also remembered one occasion when her mother had taken the children and hid in a cow pasture above the camp. She said they could see in the flats people looking for them. Russell was eating peanuts. Evelyn said her mother wanted her to eat them too. But she was afraid of chewing too loud. The next morning they returned to the house and Evelyn remembers seeing her father with his head in his hands and his face looking beat up. I suspect that occasion was related to drinking but my aunt mainly just remembered being afraid. Another time Evelyn recalled her father coming home drunk and knocking the Christmas tree down for "meanness." She said the next morning, he was very sorry and put the tree back up.
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| In 1937 there was not much work in the mines, working days were few (only 2 days a week.) Dayton was working in Harald at the time. Dayton and Kate Duvall decided to walk to the commissary and the mine office to check if there would be work on March 3, 1937. Evelyn, their daughter, attempted to go with them but her father made her stay at home. |
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A big truck struck Dayton and Kate on the highway coming back. Dayton was killed instantly but Kate hung on until December 15, 1937. Uncle Joe, her half brother took her and the children to North Carolina where she could be near a sanitarium for Kate's health.
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| Eventually, they returned to Kentucky because of her increasing ill health. My aunt remembered an incident in North Carolina. Uncle Joe was blowing up balloons for the children. My dad (2 years old) was playing with a hammer and hit Joe in the head drawing blood. | ||
| Kate Duvall died in Charlie Moore's home (her brother) in December. |
| Lexie Hamilton Ferrell took Dayton, the youngest, supposedly for a week while Ellen Moore rested up. This became his permanent foster home. Lexie said that when Dayton came to live with her, all of his clothes were in a brown paper bag. The small child pulled a little toy duck with baby ducks, following her to the Ferrell home. Lexie loved Dayton dearly and said couldn't love him more if he was her own. Floss Hamilton (Lexie's sister-in-law) would tell Lexie she could not know. Lexie would get very mad.
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| Kate's half sister Lulu and her husband Judge Webb raised Evelyn. Judge stayed with Evelyn before he died. |
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Russell had a little more difficulty. Felix and Beth Hamilton, Russell's foster parents, split up so he moved back and forth in several homes. Russell moved in with Charlie and Ellen Moore two different times. He even lived with Uncle Joe for awhile. Finally, his cousin Hillard Moore took him in. Russell moved to this home in Mann, WV in his early teens (8th grade).
Evelyn married Virgil Hamilton when she was a junior in high school. She finished high school after her youngest daughter Rita was born.
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| Russell joined the army during the Korean War. He died in 1953 of a kidney disease. This was very sudden to Evelyn and my father, Dayton, who had expected the danger of the war but no one realized that Russell had kidney trouble. Both my aunt and father tell stories of their sometimes stubborn brother. Dad said Russell would cut his nose off to spite his face. Russell loved his food hot. He even covered eggs with black pepper so that you could not see the eggs. My aunt recalled Russell having a little wagon which he was pulling a little girl from the coal camp around. When he wanted the girl to get out and she wouldn't, he bite her. |
| Evelyn said she and her husband drove Russell to Huntington to see him off for basic training. She remembered worrying we might "never see him again." My dad said that he was mad at his brother right before his death and had not responded to his last letter. Russell had been in for a visit with Hillard and Marie and did not visit dad.
There are many interesting stories told by my father's family. Uncle Joe Ferrell in particular was particularly funny. You can find some of these stories in the Meade site. |
