Lucas W. Trafton

Birth Date

1837

Death Date

1877

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Henderson County, Kentucky, county judge and soldier. Indiana native. Son of William Trafton and America Butler Trafton. Married Helen Gibbs Trafton in Henderson County on November 25, 1865. Attended Wabash College c.1853 in Crawfordsville, Indiana. County judge in Henderson County in 1860. County judge in Henderson County in 1861. Owned two enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1860. Served in the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private, captain, and assistant quartermaster from August 23, 1862, to his surrender on May 12, 1865. Captured as a prisoner of war at Gallion, Ohio, on July 21, 1863, and sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, on August 1, 1863, and to Fort Delaware, Delaware, on March 25, 1864. Signed a loyalty oath to the U. S. government on May 25, 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 28.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, p. 37.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Henderson County, Kentucky, Henderson County Marriages, Film 001944390, p.117.
"Officers and Students in Wabash College,” in U.S., College Student Lists, 1763-1933 (accessed via Ancestry.com).
Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky (Henderson, Kentucky, 1887), 751-52.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 2 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 64.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0059.
Find A Grave, "Lucas William Trafton (1837-1877)," Memorial #80808876, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80808876 (accessed April 10, 2019).
KYR-0001-021-0025.

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