George L. Torian

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1805-02-09

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1889-09-19

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"George L. Torian" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00019886, (accessed June 29, 2024).

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Trigg County, Kentucky, planter. Halifax County, Virginia, native. Married to Harriet Burbridge Torian in Trigg County, Kentucky, on December 12, 1826. Father of Lavinia Torian. Married to Elizabeth E. McCarty Weakley Torian in Christian County, Kentucky, on October 5, 1837. Father of Harriett Torian, Margaret Torian, and Thomas K. Torian. Farmer in Christian County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in Christian County in 1850. Planter in Trigg County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 1, p. 456A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 1, p. 55.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Cadiz, p. 190.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Cadiz, p. 392A-B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 378B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, p. 98A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Christian County Marriages, Film 000465562.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Trigg County Marriages, Film 000321335.
William Henry Perrin, Counties of Christian and Trigg, Kentucky: Historical and Biographical (Louisville, KY: F.A. Battey Publishing CO., 1884), 205.
David Sumner, Kim Fortner, Pam Metts, & Charles Morris, Cemeteries of Cadiz and Trigg County, Kentucky (Sumforme Publishing, 2008), 150.
"George Lynn Torian (1805-1889)," Find A Grave, Memorial 124399699, accessed May 3, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124399699.

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