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Alanson Trigg (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1795-01-08 d. 1873-05-12

Barren County, Kentucky, farmer. Virginia native. Son of Haiden Trigg Sr. and Martha Gatewood Trigg. Married Mary Frances Martin Trigg. Father of Eliza Trigg, Haiden Trigg, Alanson C. Grigg, William F. Trigg, John M. Trigg, Turk Trigg, and Thomas H.Trigg. Resident of Barren County, Kentucky, in 1840. Owned twenty-four enslaved persons in Barren County, Kentucky, in 1840. Farmer in Barren County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned thirty-four enslaved persons in Barren County in 1850. Farmer in Barren County in 1860. Owned thirty-three enslaved persons in Barren County in 1860.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, p. 172.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Glasgow, First Division, p. 399B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States_ (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 1, pp. 191, 202-203.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 2, p. 899.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 2, p. 58B.

James Knox Trigg, Trigg History, (Knoxville, TN: Tennessee Valley Publishing, 1994), pp. 362-363.

"Alanson Munson Trigg (1795-1873)," Find A Grave, Memorial 32110014, accessed May 1, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32110014.

Citation

Trigg, Alanson. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214588 (November 12, 2026).

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