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George Chilton Riffe (Lincoln County, KY, farmer and KY senator)

b. 1802-10-02 d. 1877-09-05

Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Anderson Riffe. Father of Mary Frances Riffe, James C. Riffe, Emily Riffe, Jesse P. Riffe, Susan H. Riffe, Martha A. Riffe, and Henry Clay Riffe. Married to Elizabeth Weatherford Riffe in Lincoln County, Kentucky, on June 14, 1859. Farmer in Casey County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned twenty enslaved persons in Casey County in 1850. Farmer in Lincoln County in 1860. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Casey County in 1860. Senator for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1863 to 1867.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Casey County, District 1, p. 359A

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Casey County, District 1, p. 930-31.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, p. 127.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, p. 36, p. 32 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Hustonville, p. 62B.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1914), KDLA, Rolls #994045, Lincoln County Marriages, 1859, p. 12 of microfilm.

Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1965), KDLA, Film #7016133: All Counties, 1911, File #11547, p. 1553 of 3257 of microfilm.

Find A Grave, "George Chilton Riffe (1802-1877)," Memorial #80647396, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80647396 (accessed July 11, 2019).

Citation

Riffe, George Chilton. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203596 (January 20, 2026).

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