Thomas Jefferson DuVall

Shoemaker Watchman - Wise Bros.
8/15/1814 - 9/14/1891
Jane E. Foreman DuVall

10/16/ 1820 - 2/8/1897
Buried:
Baltimore Cemetery,
2500 E. North Avenue
Baltimore, MD

Jane Foreman DuVall with an unknown
grandchild - she is identified on the back in my father's
handwriting.





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Most of the following information has
been gleaned from the Foreman/DuVall family bible, which was given
to me by my father after the death of my grandmother. It had
belonged to her mother Ella and when Ella died, Grammy came into
possession of it. When Grammy passed away in 1985, my father found
it and passed it on to me knowing that it contained a plethora of
family information and knowing my interest in the family tree. Dad
had no clue how to tie things together and wasn't really interested, but I had already begun
asking questions before my grandmother died and had been given a box
of photographs of the DuValls. The photographs are labeled on the
back with full names in most cases, which enabled me to tie them
directly into names and dates listed in the bible. It is
200 years old and was purchased in Philadelphia for $5.00 by Joshua
Forman, the father of Jane Foreman. It is very fragile and has
therefore spent most of it's tenure with me wrapped in plastic wrap,
secured in one of dad's old meter boxes. I zeroxed the pages years
ago and am just getting around to sorting through the information. I
know who most of the people - it was just a matter of putting it all in
some kind of clear, coherent order. Between this fantastic source,
Maryland Marriage Records
and Baltimore Census records - I've been able to put together more
generations of my family.
Thomas Jefferson DuVall was the son
of Nathan Thomas DuVall (b. abt 1787 d. 8/25/1853) and Elizabeth
Glover. Thomas and Elizabeth were married according to bible records
on December 31, 1807. They had seven children:
~Mary Carroll DuVall b.1/2/1809 - d.
9/7/1844 married a man named Clark
~Elizabeth Ann DuVall b. 9/25/1811 - d.
1/12/1844 married a man named Burns, probably the brother of Lucy's
husband ~Thomas Jefferson b.
8/15/1814 - d. 9/14/1891 married Jane Foreman
~James Madison DuVall b. 10/13/1816 - d.
9/15/1881 married Elizabeth J. McFarland (per census records)
~Sarah Jane DuVall b. 5/12/1819 - d. ????
married William H. Forley
~George Washington DuVall b. 4/30/1822 - d. 4/18/1897 married Ruth Ann Harker ~Lucy Ellen DuVall b.
2/10/1825 - d. 3/13/1854 married John Thomas Burns
Thomas lived in Baltimore were he worked
as a shoemaker. His brother James was also a shoemaker as was his
brother George. Thomas and his wife Jane were the parents of 12
boys. Five of the boys died very young - only 7 grew to manhood.
Baltimore, particularly the Fells Points area were the family lived,
was subject to smallpox, yellow fever and measles epidemics around
the time of their deaths so is possible that one of these was the
cause. The family bible only lists dates and times, and the tiny
graves in Baltimore Cemetery are illegible so it is unknown what
they died from.
Per the book "Mareen DuVall of Middle
Plantation" - Mary DuVall (b. 1767) the widow of Joseph DuVall
resided in Baltimore Town. When she applied for her widow's pension
on Sept 23, 1844, she stated that her husband has served between
1777 and 1780. Although her family bible had been lost - she was the
mother of three children, Nathan, Eli and and an unnamed daughter,
and grandmother to 18. All sorts of
human depositions were made to prove the marriage and the services
of her husband. (pp. 275-276) Nathan (and I believe this is the same
Nathan) served as a private in the 51st MD Militia during the War of
1812. He married his wife Elizabeth Glover on Jan 1, 1807 in
Annapolis. This is the Nathan and Elizabeth that are listed in the
family bible. John D. Foreman and Thomas DuVall certified to the
marriage. (p. 558) These two gentleman are also listed in the family
bible.
Jane Foreman was the daughter of
Joshua Forman and Rebekah (Rebecca) Cook. She was born in
Philadelphia in 1820 and moved to Baltimore when she married. She
had five brothers and a sister:
~William Foreman b. 1811- d. 1814
~Henry Cole Foreman b. 9/25/1813 - d.
10/30/1847 married Catherine Kroah
~Joseph E. Foreman b. 10/25/1815 -
d. ??? married Mary Jane Davis
~John D. Foreman b. 5/16/1818 - d.
10/11/1860 married Eleanor Binton
~Jane E. Foreman b. 1820 - d. 2/8/1897
married Thomas Jefferson DuVall
~Rebekah Foreman b. 12/17/1823 - d.
5/30/1830
~Joshua A. Foreman b. 1/21/1829 - d.
???? married (per census records) a woman named Tillie
All of Jane's siblings were born in
Philadelphia, but most moved to Baltimore upon marriage. Jane and
Thomas were married in Baltimore City - Fells Point in 1837. The
area was considered to be a "den of pirates" by the British during
the War of 1812, simply because of the number of "privateers" turned
out by the ship yards. The waterfront was home to merchants and sea
captains and did a bustling business and two of Thomas's sons worked
in dry goods. They had 13 sons. All are listed in the family and in
census records from 1860, 1870 and 1880. Six died young and 7 lived
to grow up, marry and have children of their own. There were:
John William H. DuVall b. 2/9/1839 - d.
11/18/ 1841 died aged 3 years 9 months
Thomas Joshua DuVall b. 3/20/1840 - d.
???? married Frances A. Egleston ( 5 children)
James Edward DuVall b. 11/30/1841 - d.
3/7/1903 married Katherine Sankey ( 3 children)
William Clark DuVall b. 1/17/1844 - d.
10/1852 died aged 8 years 9 months
George Washington DuVall b. 9/14/1845 -
d. 4/18/1897 married to Mary Bell Phillips (3 children) Henry Cole
Foreman DuVall b. 11/14/1846 - d. 11/28/1847 died aged 1
year
John Wesley DuVall b. 12/11/1848 - d.
8/1852 died age 3 years 8 months
Charles Wesley DuVall b. 5/5/1850 - d.
9/1851 died aged 1 year 4 months
Charles Wesley DuVall b. 10/5/1851 - d.
3/6/1923 married Margaret Sylvia (6 children)
Louis Marion DuVall b.3/4/1855 - d.
12/24/1912 married Laura Kauffman (1 child)
Richard Menton Johnson Harker DuVall
b.12/11/1857 - d. ???? married Clara M._______ (1 child)
Joseph Henry DuVall b. 6/30/1860 - d.
???? married Annie Loney (1 child)
William Fensley DuVall b. 10/1862 - d.
8/1863 died aged 9 months

George W. DuVall
Mary Bell Phillips
Louis Marion DuVall Edna
May DuVall (his daughter)
Charles Wesley
DuVall
Margaret Sylvia
Joseph Henry DuVall
Annie Loney


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