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John W. Gaines (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and politician.)

b. 1821-03-16 d. 1884-01-13

Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and politician. Virginia native. Married to Martha A. Perkins Gaines. Father of Randolph Gaines, Walter Gaines, John Gaines, Lucy Gaines, Annie Gaines, Thomas Gaines, and George Gaines. Farmer in Trigg County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned twenty enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1850. Farmer in Trigg County in 1860. Owned twenty-two enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1860. Employed Robert E. Morgan as a farm manager in Trigg County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Trigg County from 1861 to 1862. Resigned from office on January 20, 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1, p. 307A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1, p. 245.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 91.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 375B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Cadiz Precinct, p. 35A-B.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994056, Trigg County Births.

William Henry Perrin, ed., County of Trigg, Kentucky: Historical and Biographical (Louisville, KY: F.A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884), 32.

David Sumner, Kim Fortner, Pam Metts, and Charles Morris, Cemeteries of Cadiz and Trigg County, Kentucky (Sunforme Publishing, 2008), 165.

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Gaines, John W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199499 (November 12, 2026).

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