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About Alexander de la Planche Duval
Alexander de la Plaunche Duval
Find A Grave Memorial ID # 174201589
Alexander De La Plaunche DuVal, youngest son of Maj. Claiborne (1760-1824) and Elizabeth Pope DuVal (1760-1815), was born November 30, 1793, at Lombardy, Hanover County, VA. He moved to Kentucky with his parents when he was one year old. He lived at White House near Gallatin, TN, at San Jacinto farm near Nashville and later at Woodlawn on the banks of the Mississippi River in Issaquena County, MS. He served with General Jackson in 1812 in Florida and at New Orleans.
He married in 1818, Margaret Gwin (1800-63), daughter of Rev. James (1766-1841) and Mary Adair McAdams Gwin, of Nashville. Her father was a Methodist minister, served in the Revolutionary War and was chaplain for Andrew Jackson in the New Orleans campaign. Her brother was U.S. Senator William McKendree Gwin (1805-85) of California, who with Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Benton and Soule were members of the great Senate of 1850.
Their nine children were Elizabeth Pope (1819-1901), Caroline Amelia (1821-1903), Margaret Ann (1823-47)(dsp), Lucy Jane (1825-41), Mary Catharine (1828-1908), James William (1830-31), Dr. Claiborne Alexander (1832-1906), Matilda Kiser (1834-1924), and Gwinette Samuella DuVal (1836-67)(dsp).
Elizabeth Pope (DuVal) McNairy (1819-1901) married in 1838, Col. William Hobson McNairy (1815-73), son of Nathaniel A. and Catherine Blakely Hobson McNairy, of Nashville. Their children were Col. Alexander DuVal CSA (1840-1901) who moved to Abilene, TX, Susan Vaulx (1841-1924), and Margaret Jane McNairy (1849-1929).
Mary Catharine (DuVal) Kelley (1828-1908) lived in Nashville and married in 1852, James Augustus Kelley (1821-62), son of Capt. Henry (1791-1841) and Ann McCullen Kelley (1792-1849). A daughter was Lilly A. Kelley (1853-)(dsp).
Dr. Claiborne Alexander DuVal (1832-1906) served in the Civil War (CSA) in battle at Jackson, MS, and as field surgeon at Vicksburg. He lived at Eastonia, a large sugar plantation a few miles west of Houma, LA. He married in 1860, Julia Ann Easton (1836-1911), daughter of Tristram Shandy and Catherine Beach Easton, of Grampian Hills, Wilkinson County, MS. Their six children were Claiborne Alexander, Jr. (1860-1910), Easton William (1865-1934), Stanwood (1868-1928), Horace (1869-), Gwinette (1872-1943) and Dr. Joseph Berwick DuVal (1876-1953).
Matilda "Tilla" Keiser (DuVal) Baskette (1834-1924) lived in Nashville and was noted for her writings in prose and poetry. She married in 1854, Judge John Howard Baskette (1829-84), son of Dr. William Turner (-1867) and Mary W. Howard Baskette (1791-1841) of Midland, TN. He was an attorney, a member of the Tennessee legislature before 1854, and judge of the Davidson County (TN) Court for twenty years. He was a founder of the West End Methodist Church in Nashville and was a Colonel in the 68th regiment of Tennessee militia during the Civil War. He was a descendent of John Baskette, printer of the Oxford Edition of the King James version of the English Bible.
Their ten children were Dr. William Howard (1855-1913), Claiborne Alexander (1858-1925), Margaret Gwin (1860-1946), John Henry (1862-1955), Robert E. Lee (1865-1942), Ernest DuVal (1869-1927), Marvin Young (1871-72), Col. Alvin Kelly (1873-1963), Tilla Grace (1875-) and Walter Lambuth Baskette (1878-1942).
See 1850 Census, Issaquena County, MS; Margaret Gwin Buchanan, The DuVals of Kentucky from Virginia 1794-1935 (Lynchburg, VA, 1938), 46-47, 59-60, 67-68; John Frederick Dorman, Claiborne of Virginia, Descendants of Col. William Claiborne (Baltimore, 1995), 194-196; Joseph Stephen Hays, Descendants of Col. Claiborne DuVal (Smith's Grove, KY, 2012) (unpublished edition), 4-5, 16-18; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Col. Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660 of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, KY 2018), 93.
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Alexander de la Planche Duval's Timeline
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November 30, 1793
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Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia, United States
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TN, United States
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