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John R. Grace (Trigg County, Kentucky, clerk, attorney, and county judge)

b. 1834-05-27

Trigg County, Kentucky, county judge and attorney. Trigg County, Kentucky, native. Son of William D. Grace and Mary Organ Grace. Married to Susan Emeline Terry Grace in 1859. Father of Mary Grace. Graduate of Transylvania College in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1855. Clerk in Trigg County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned eleven enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1850. County judge in Trigg County from 1858 to 1860. Household owned fourteen enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1860. Partners with Matthew Mayes in Mayes & Grace law firm from 1860 to 1865.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 2, p. 377A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 2, p. 291.

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, p. 391B-392A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Trigg County, KY, June 1863, p. 19.

William Henry Perrin, Counties of Christian and Trigg: Historical and Biographical (Louisville, KY: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884) 190.

Citation

Grace, John R.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209001 (November 12, 2026).

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