Person

Robert A. Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, circuit clerk.)

b. 1832-03-25 d. 1909-03-01

Trigg County, Kentucky, circuit clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth C. Thompson Burnett in Trigg County, Kentucky, on October 17, 1854. Father of George Burnett, James Burnett, and Robert Burnett. Married to Ann Maria Roach Burnett in Trigg County, Kentucky, on October 10, 1861. Clerk of the Trigg Circuit Court in 1860. Household owned one enslaved person in Trigg County in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Cadiz, p. 194.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 378B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Cadiz Precinct, p. 17B.

Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954, Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, UT, Trigg County Marriages, Film 000321335.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Trigg County Marriages, Film 000321335.

"Robert A. Burnett Is Dead," The Daily News=Democrat (Paducah, KY), March 3, 1909, p. 3.

"Yields to Pneumonia," Owensboro Daily Messenger (Owensboro, KY), March 3, 1909, p. 3.

David Sumner, Kim Fortner, Pam Metts, and Charles Morris, Cemeteries of Cadiz and Trigg County, Kentucky (Sumforme Publishing: 2008), 107.

Citation

Burnett, Robert A.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201091 (November 12, 2026).

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