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.