George M. Southgate

Birth Date

c1800

Death Date

1867

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Nashville, Tennessee, justice of the peace. Virginia native. Married to Gertrude Robinson Southgate. Father of Lucy J. Southgate, William R. Southgate, and Marcellus Southgate. Tobacconist in Covington, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Covington in 1850. Justice of the peace in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Nashville in 1860. Justice of the peace in Nashville in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 1, p. 217B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, p. 115.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville Ward 2, p. 347.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, p. 241A.
Tennessee Death Records, 1908-1958, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Davidson County Death Certificates, File 321.
E.D. King, ed., Singleton's Nashville Business Directory for 1865 (Nashville: R.H. Singleton, 1865), 139.
"Died," Republican Banner (Nashville, TN), April 9, 1867, p. 4.

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