Robert Wilford

Birth Date

1823-10-03

Death Date

1892-04-28

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Trigg County, Kentucky, overseer, farmer, and juror. Trigg County, Kentucky, native. Son of Bennett Wilford and Sarah Randolph Wilford. Married to Nancy Jane Manning Wilford in Trigg County, Kentucky, on February 1, 1849. Overseer for Albert G. Dabney in Trigg County in 1844. Farmer in Trigg County in 1850. Farmer in Trigg County in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1860. Juror in the Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Thomas B. Wadlington in Caldwell County on December 8, 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1, p. 310A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Cadiz, p. 108.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 381A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Trigg County Marriages, Film #000321335, p. 125.
William Henry Perrin, Counties of Christian and Trigg, Kentucky (Chicago: F. A. Battery, 1884), 208-09.
Find A Grave, "Robert Wilford (1823-1892)," Memorial #88566436, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88566436 (accessed May 23, 2021).
KYR-0001-020-0001.

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