Robert Houston Brank

1799 - 1827  (28 years)

• Name	Robert Houston Brank
  Born	1799
  Gender	Male
  Group	Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant John Davidson
  	Descendants of immigrant John Davidson of DNA Family 001
  Group	Davidson DNA Family 001
  	Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina
  FindaGrave Memorial ID	48400518
  	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48400518
  Died	Mar 1827	Simpson County, Kentucky
  Buried	Aft Mar 1827	Brank Cemetery, Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky
  Person ID	I11221	DNA Family 1 Genealogies
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2018

  
  

  Father	Robert Brank, Jr.,   b. 17 Mar 1757, North Carolina ,   d. 10 Apr 1846, Paint Lick, Garrard County, Kentucky  (Age 89 years)
  Mother	Margaret McLean,   b. Jun 1763, Burke County, North Carolina ,   d. 25 Dec 1837  (Age ~ 74 years)
  Married	28 Sep 1778	Burke County, North Carolina
  Family ID	F1519	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Malinda Ruth Tennessee Davidson,   b. 4 Jul 1804, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi ,   d. 29 Sep 1892, Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee  (Age 88 years)
  Married	14 Sep 1826	Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee
  	Ancestry.com. Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002 Name:     Ruth M T Davidson Gender:     Female Marriage Date:     14 Sep 1826 Marriage Place:     Maury, Tennessee, USA Spouse:     Robert H Brank
  Children	1. Robert Houston Brank, Jr.,   b. 15 Aug 1827, Tennessee ,   d. 1904  (Age 76 years)
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2018
  Family ID	F4741	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Married - 14 Sep 1826 - Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee Buried - Aft Mar 1827 - Brank Cemetery, Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Histories

  Letter from Alney McLean to cousin Samuel Stockard This letter had been transcribed and posted on the Tennkin.com site and was saved in 2009 and supplied to me by Kenneth Rickett in October 2018. This site no longer seems to be extant. This letter provides many valuable insights on the McLean and Davidson families but it has several provable errors. None the less, it is a useful testimony to the early history of these families.

  
  

• Notes

  From FindaGrave: Two lawyers from Maury Co, TN had exchanged angry words during a trial. Calvin M Smith accepted a challenge from Robert M Brank to fight a duel in Simpson Co, KY. Smith killed Brank with the only shot fired. Tradition says that, by a request Brank made just before the duel, he was buried close to where he died. Robert Houston Brank was born about 1799. His father, sheriff of Madison County, was a co-founder of the Paint Lick Presbyterian Church (Garrard County, KY) and many of the family are buried in the church cemetery. Robert H married Malinda Tennessee Davidson, a cousin, 16 Sep 1826, in Maury County, TN. Their son, Robert Houston Jr, was born 5 months after the fatal duel.