Alanson Trigg

Birth Date

1795-01-08

Death Date

1873-05-12

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Barren County, Kentucky, farmer. Virginia native. Son of Haiden Trigg Sr. and Martha Gatewood Trigg. Married Mary Frances Martin Trigg. Father of Eliza Trigg, Haiden Trigg, Alanson C. Grigg, William F. Trigg, John M. Trigg, Turk Trigg, and Thomas H.Trigg. Resident of Barren County, Kentucky, in 1840. Owned twenty-four enslaved persons in Barren County, Kentucky, in 1840. Farmer in Barren County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned thirty-four enslaved persons in Barren County in 1850. Farmer in Barren County in 1860. Owned thirty-three enslaved persons in Barren County in 1860.

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, p. 172.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Glasgow, First Division, p. 399B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States_ (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 1, pp. 191, 202-203.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 2, p. 899.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 2, p. 58B.
James Knox Trigg, Trigg History, (Knoxville, TN: Tennessee Valley Publishing, 1994), pp. 362-363.
"Alanson Munson Trigg (1795-1873)," Find A Grave, Memorial 32110014, accessed May 1, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32110014.

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