Ulysses Grant Duvall, Arlington National Cemetery Section 13 Gravesite 145.
Earl Dean Uhler, Sr. Section 25 Plot 4273
Gravesite Lt. Col. Earl Dean Uhler, Sr.
Blanche Duvall Uhler Section 25, Plot 4273
26 Apr 1902 died 2 Jul 2000
Lt. Col. Earl Dean Uhler, Sr, was born in Elkton, Maryland in 1892 to Samuel and Mary "Mollie" Uhler. He had three brothers, Harry O. Uhler, Norris Uhler, and Leonard Uhler, and a half-sister, Catherine Uhler Abbott, daughter of Samuel Uhler and his second wife, still living at the time of his death who all settled in Baltimore as did he. Samuel had another daughter Margaret and a son George. As a boy, Earl lived in Owings Mills, Maryland, and graduated from Franklin High School in Reisterstown, then called Franklin Institute. He studied Mechanical Drawing at Maryland Institute where he graduated in 1915.
He enlisted in the 110th Field Artillery, 29th Division in 1917 and was in France in World War I. He served in the Army until 1945 retiring as a Lt. Col. He died in 1970 and was survived by two sons, a daughter, and ten grandchildren. He was married to Blanche Duvall Uhler who died in 2000. PopPop, as his grandchildren knew him loved to garden, take photographs and develop them, tend to his koi pond and he studied Russian and yoga. He passed away at Lutheran Hospital in Baltimore, Md.
Earl and Blanche had three children, Nancy Uhler Waterman, Earl Dean Uhler, Jr., Edwin Uhler. Edwin was named for Aunt Margaret's husband, Uncle Eddie Brownley.
Earl and Blanche had three children, Nancy Uhler Waterman, Earl Dean Uhler, Jr., Edwin Uhler. Edwin was named for Aunt Margaret's husband, Uncle Eddie Brownley.
Blanche Irene Duvall Uhler was born in Hoadly, Virginia an April 26, 1902, the daughter of Ullysses Grant Duvall and Anna Hixon of Spring Gap, Maryland. Her father served in the US Army during the Spanish American War and made a living as a lumberman. Her mother, who died when Blanche was 8 years old on Easter Sunday 1910, was remembered by her daughter as “a wonderful person who never angered.”
Blanche grew up with her brother William Jasper Duvall in a log cabin, between Quantico and Manassas Virginia. When she was 11 years old, her father “decided that he could not manage a girl on his own,” in Blanche’s words, and her Aunt Caroline Duvall Robey took her to live in Washington, DC. Of her time in Washington, Blanche remembered that she lived close to the Smithsonian Institute and the Washington Monument and that she also sometimes stayed with another relative, Charles Bohanon, at 12th and D Streets. From Washington, Blanche moved to Relay, Maryland to live with Caroline’s daughter, her cousin Margaret Robey Brownley, in a large Victorian house on Gun Road, with several other young cousins who had lost their mothers, all taken in by “Aunt Margaret.” Margaret Brownley raised Blanche, her 1st cousin Charles Duvall, and her 1 st cousins-once-removed Marion and Camilla (Dee Dee) Beall. Of her years spent in Washington and Relay, Blanche remembered that she rarely saw her father and brother, although Ullysses spent his final years with her in Baltimore.
Blanche married Earl Dean Uhler of Baltimore on March 26, 1921. He was a close friend of her cousin Charlie Duvall, having served with him in the 110th Field Artillery in France during World War I. During World War II, Earl served as Provost Marshall for Maryland and the surrounding states, responsible for POW camps. Blanche and Earl Uhler had 3 children: Earl Dean Uhler Jr. (1922-2017), Edwin Lee Uhler (1925-2017), and Nancy Margaret Uhler Waterman (1927-2009). Blanche was a homemaker, a seamstress who worked for many years part-time in the Notions Departments of the Hutzler Brothers and Hochschild Kohn department stores, and an avid gardener who was long a member of the Halethorpe Garden Club. After the death of her husband in 1970, Blanche was a generous volunteer, first at the Spring Grove State Hospital in Catonsville, Maryland, and later at the Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, DC. In 1981, she moved from her home in Halethorpe, Maryland, where she had lived for 40 years, to the Army Distaff Home on NW Oregon Ave., in Washington DC. There she remained active, participating in many of the programs and continuing to maintain gardens on the Home’s extensive grounds. She died there.
on July 2, 2000, survived by her 3 children and their families, including 10 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
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Having known William "Bill" Jasper Duvall and his sister, Blanch Duvall Uhler for many years, wonderful memories of both these great people are cherished. Both the kind souls were the nicest people one could ever know.
William "Bill" Jasper Duvall was born on May 13, 1904 and raised on his family's farm. He was born in Hoadly, Va, now part of Lindendale Road in what is now known as Dale City, Virginia.
Bill Duvall's father, Ullysses Grant Duvall (Born in 1867) married Anna Hixon. He was a corporal with the 3rd US Volunteer Engineers. He and Anna had three children; Carl who died at 2, William Jasper Duvall and Blance Irene Duvall (Uhler). Ullysses and Anna lived in a 3 or 4 room log cabin with his parents in Hoadley, (Dale City area )Virginia. In the early 1900s they built a house a house next to log cabin that they then referred to as the "summer kitchen". William "Bill" Duvall spent his youth in this house.
William "Bill" Jasper Duvall's Mother, Anna Duvall died on March 27, 1910, when he was only a six years old. His sister, Blanche was 8 years old at the time of Anna's death. He was rasied by his father and later by a stepmother. Blanche was raised by relatives. During his youth he helped his father haul mining timber props to town of Occoquan,VA where they were placed aboard barges. Mr. Duvall and his father operated the first electrical power generators for powering street lights in the town of Occoquan.
William "Bill" Jasper Duvall became a well known builder of homes in the Northern Virginia. He built homes and commercial buildings for almost 50 years before retiring and coming to Amissville, Virginia in April 1968. He purchase 16.4 acres of land and built his retirement house (1968-1971) using mostly his own labor. He lived in this house from Apri l971 until the summer of 1981 when his health failed. Soon after that he entered a nursing home in Frederickburg, Virginia where he remained until his death on 23 June 1986. His wife, Grace Hart Duvall was born on August 19, 1901 and died while living in this home in August 1977. She was a school teacher in her younger years. Mr. Duvall passed away in June 1986 at the age of 82. They had one son, William Hart Duvall (16 Dec. 1926 - 5 May 1992).
Mr. Duvall had one sister, Blanche Irene Duvall Uhler. Blanche was born on 26 April 1902 and died on 2 July 2000 at the age of 98. Blanche visited the Duvall property many times and was a guest at Chestnut Oak and Autumn Haze Farm during the 1980s. It will forever be a joy to have known this wonderful person along with Mr. and Mrs. William "Bill" Duvall.
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