| Early Records
Phineas Trousdale - 1635 booked passage from England to Barbados; Ann
Trousdale - 1679 - arrived from England, died in Barbados
William and John "the elder" Trousdale show registered in Lancaster
Co., PA, from Ulster Province, Ireland (Protestant); migrated 1730-35
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John Trousdale moved to Orange Co., NC, then to Gallatin, Sumner Co., TN
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William has a land survey in Lancaster Co., PA in 1756; in his will of
1785 he lists children William Jr., Thomas and Margaret, and his brother
John; William's information ends here
Tennessee Trousdales
John Trousdale, 1704-1784, b. Ireland, m. Elizabeth
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six children, eldest two born in Ireland, last four born in Pennsylvania
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family then moved to Tennessee
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John Jr. m. Miss Ferguson, d. 1797, had 5 children
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Captain James, 1736-1818
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m. Elizabeth Ferguson, 1761; had 5 children before she died
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m. Elizabeth Dobbins, b. 1753 Orange Co., NC, d. 1839; had ten children
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one of those children was WILLIAM TROUSDALE, b. 1790, d. 1872, became
Governor of Tennessee, after a distinguished military career; Trousdale
County is named for him
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his younger brother, Bryson Blackburn Trousdale, b. 1793, Orange Co., NC,
d. 1878, buried Mt. Olive Cem., Nashville, TN; he is the father of the
Trousdale family living in Tennessee
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studied law and moved to Robertson Co., TN; owned property at Jackson,
Madison Co., TN; was fined $1.00 for retailing liquor about 1830; secured
a retro-active pension for his elderly mother; appointed trustee of the
Lewis Academy (1856)
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m. Susan Hicks 1813, Springfield, Robertson Co., TN, had five children
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Albert Gallatin b. 1815, no children
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Cincinnatus, d. 1852; a lieutenant in the Mexican War, moved to Arkansas,
no children
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Leonidas 1823-1897, m. Virginia Frances Joy (d/o Levi and Martha Johnson
Joy of Boston, MA), had 5 children; Leonidas was an assistant adj. General
of Wright's brigade in the Civil War; he was editor of the Chattanooga
Rebel, the Memphis Commercial, and the Appeal; he became the State Superintendent
of Education
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Luluh b. 1855, m. Robert S. Cuzzort 1895, no children
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Jennie Joy, 1856-1938, m. Edward Smith, no children
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Susie, died in infancy
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Leon Jr. 1862-1937, m. Lillian James Cantrell, 1892; moved to California
in 1903 due to Lillian's poor health; opened a grocery store in Long Beach,
CA
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Leon III, 1893-1910
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Charles Eastman 1895-1985, m. Florence June Steffy 1900-1983 (d/o Frank
and Rosa Pugh Steffy)
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Levi Joy 1867-1919, m. Mary Martin Wade, 1893
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Goulding Marr b. 1899, m. Martha Perkins; son Goulding Marr, Jr. resides
in TN
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Susan, m. 1847 and had infant daughter that died young
m. Maria Smith, but no children
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