Person

Lafayette Carrington (Georgia, Clerk and teacher)

b. 1824-07-04 d. 1888-01-08

Baldwin County, Georgia, teacher and clerk. Georgia native. Married to Pauline V. Launay Carrington on December 7, 1853. Father of Jane E. Carrington, Frank Carrington, Pauline Carrington, Carrie Carrington, Emma Carrington, Paul M. Carrington, and Forest L. Carrington. Teacher in Hancock County, Georgia in 1850. Teacher in Baldwin County in 1860. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Baldwin County in 1860. Clerk of the Georgia House of Representatives in 1861.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Georgia, Hancock County, District 116, p. 38B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Georgia, Baldwin County, Smith's District, p. 211.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Georgia, Baldwin County, Smith's District, p. 56B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Georgia, Baldwin County, p. 178B.

Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia Passed in Milledgeville at an Annual Session in November and December 1860 (Boughton, Nisbett, and Barns State Printers, 1861), 35.

Find A Grave, "Lafayette Carrington (1824-1888)," Memorial #20388050, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20388050 (accessed April 8, 2020).

KYR-0004-033-0037.

Citation

Carrington, Lafayette. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205305 (November 12, 2026).

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