Person

Silas Gatewood (Trimble County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1809? d. 1880

Trimble County, Kentucky, school teacher and county clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Frances A. Bell Gatewood in Trimble County on July 19, 1835. Father of Martha B. Gatewood. Mary E. Gatewood, Pulaski B. Gatewood, Silas Gatewood, Jr., and Fanny Omega Gatewood. Appointed Postmaster in Bedford, Trimble County, Kentucky in 1834. School teacher in Trimble County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Trimble County in 1860. Clerk of the Trimble County Court in Trimble County in 1862.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trimble County, Bedford, p. 257.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trimble County, p. 396B.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Trimble County Marriages, Film #000482445, p. 226.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306.

Federal Mortality Census Schedules, 1850-1880, and Related Indexes, 1850-1880, Collection T655, Archive Roll Number 20, 1880, Milton, Trimble, Kentucky.

Citation

Gatewood, Silas. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202746 (November 12, 2026).

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