History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p.
675.

SETH A. DU VAL was born on the James River, eight miles southwest of
Richmond, Va., Jan. 7, 1846.  His father was Stephen Du Val, whose
grandfather came from France, among the Huguenots that were driven from
France and settled the Huguenots Springs in Powhatan County, Va. 
Stephen Du Val married first a Miss Shepherd, and they had nine
children.  The mother died, and he married Mrs. Susan Cottrell,whose
maiden name was Haley.  She was a sister of Seth Haley, the tobacconist
of Lynchburg, Va.  Seth Du Val was their only child.  He remained on the
old homestead until the late war, when, in December, 1863, he enlisted
in Company I, Tenth Regiment of Virginia Confederate Cavalry Volunteers,
and remained in the service until the close of the was; was in the
battles of Spottsylvania, Wilderness, Court- House, Cold Harbor, Supona
Church, White Oak Swamp, Ream's Station, Hatcher's Run and Five Forks,
Va.; was in various skirmishes, and was under fire constantly for twelve
months and never received a wound.  At the close of the war he went to
his brother in Goochland County, Va., where he remained until January,
1866, when he came to Daviess County, Ky.  Oct. 10, 1867, was married to
Miss Mary A. Haynes.  She was born in the same house where she now
resides, and was a daughter of Dr. Samuel and Mary (Barnhill) Haynes,
old settlers of Daviess County.  He was a native of Virginia and she of
Oldham County, Ky, a relative of Daniel Boone.  After Mr. and Mrs. Du
Val were married he bought a farm three quarters of a mile southwest of
Masonville, where he remained until the spring of 1874, when he
purchased the old homestead farm of his father-in-law, where he has
since resided.  Mrs. Du Val is a member of the Christian church and he
of the Baptist church.  They have two children--Samuel S., born Oct. 9,
1868; Benjamin A., born Jan. 27, 1874.  Mr. Du Val owns a fine farm of
146 acres, all under cultivation except seven or eight acres timber. 
Mr. Du Val raises tobacco, corn wheat, hay, oats and stock.  In politics
he has always been a supporter of the Democratic party.  His mother's
cousin, James Thomas, was the late wealthy tobacconist of Richmond, Va.,
who died in 1882.  He was a millionaire and was father-in-law of Dr.
James Curry, ex-United States Senator from Georgia before, and after the
war President of the Richmond Baptist College, at Richmond, Va.

Du_Val Shepherd Cottrell Haley Haynes Barnhill Thomas Curry
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Powhatan-VA Goochland-VA Oldham-KY GA

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