Robert Trimble Davis, Sr.

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c1829

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1874-12-15

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"Robert Trimble Davis, Sr." in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00000528, (accessed April 28, 2024).

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Paris, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Garrett Davis and Eliza J. Davis. Married Martha H. Davis. Father of Mary H. Davis, Rebecca T. Davis, Robert T. Davis, Jr., and Garrett Davis. Resident of Bourbon County in 1850. Attorney in Paris, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Bourbon County from 1865 to 1869.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 289; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 37; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 9; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, Ward 2, p. 24; Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), p. 66; Find A Grave, "Robert Trimble Davis (1829-1874)," Memorial #39318711, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39318711 (accessed August 18, 2017).

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