Robert Houston Brank

Other Events:

• Group: Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant John Davidson
• Group: Davidson DNA Family 001
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 48400518

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.

Group:
Descendants of immigrant John Davidson of DNA Family 001

Group:
Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48400518

Robert married Malinda Ruth Tennessee Davidson on 14 Sep 1826 in Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. Malinda (daughter of Thomas Irwin Davidson and Mary Kennard) was born on 4 Jul 1804 in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi; died on 29 Sep 1892 in Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee; was buried on 30 Sep 1892 in Zion Presbyerian Church Cemetery, Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]