George W. Sutton

Birth Date

c1805

Death Date

c1870

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Fayette County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of David Sutton and Juliet May Sutton. Married to Laura Grosvenor Sutton. Father of Mary Louisa Sutton Norton. Farmer in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned forty enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Farmer in Lexington in 1860. Owned thirty enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 190B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 50.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 416.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 453A.
Susan Riviere Hetzel, Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, vol. 014 (Washington, D.C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1902), 346-47.
Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Jefferson County Wills, vol. 8-9. 1861-1879, p. 330-32.

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