George A. Trumbo

Birth Date

c1806

Death Date

1865-09-21

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bath County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Charlotte Trumbo. Father of William Trumbo, Mary A. Trumbo, Oliver Trumbo, Benjamin Trumbo, Henriette Trumbo, and Jennette Trumbo. Farmer in Bath County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Bath County in 1850. Served in the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as supply 2nd lieutenant from November 22, 1862, to September 14, 1863. Shot and killed in Bath County on September 21, 1865, allegedly by Jesse Underwood and David Underwood.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, p. 62A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, p. 252.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 253.
KYR-0001-005-0126.

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