Person

Matthew Mayes (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney.)

b. 1797?

Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Robert C. Mayes and Agnes T. Locke Mayes. Married to Eliza B. Crump Mayes in Trigg County, Kentucky, on December 25, 1832. Married to Elizabeth Ann Caldwell Utterback Mayes in Calloway County, Kentucky, on January 3, 1842. Father of Emma C. Mayes, Robert Mayes, and Julia Mayes. Resident of Trigg County in 1840. Owned ten enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1840. Attorney in Trigg County in 1850. Owned twenty-five enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1850. Attorney in Trigg County in 1860. Owned twenty-four enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Trigg, District 1, p. 290A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1, p. 226.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Cadiz, p. 189.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Cadiz, p. 392A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Cadiz, District, p. 1.

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

_ Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Trigg County Marriages, Film 005685969.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Calloway County Marriages, Film 004261209.

Elizabeth Petty Bentley, Virginia Marriage Records: From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly (Baltimore, MD: Genealogy Publishing Co., Inc., 1984), 54.

John Livingston, The Official Registry of and Law Register for the United States for the Year 1866 (New York: Merchants’ Union Law Company, 1866.)

William Henry Perrin, Counties of Christian and Trigg, Kentucky: Historical and Biographical (Chicago and Louisville: F. A. Battey Publishing Co, 1884.)

Citation

Mayes, Matthew. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202162 (November 12, 2026).

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