Trimble County, Kentucky, Links & Miscellany

Trimble County was the 86th county formed in Kentucky. The law enacting Trimble County was passed on February 9, 1837 and the county was formed on April 1, 1837 from parts of Gallatin, Henry and Oldham Counties. Its boundaries are unchanged since March 6, 1850. It has an area of 148.8 square miles, making it the 117th largest of Kentucky's 120 counties.

Trimble County was formed from parts of Gallatin, Henry, and
Oldham Counties, and was created on February 9, 1837. Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia of the internet, has an article on Trimble County, as well as Bedford, and Milton, and a page on the man for whom Trimble County is named, Robert Trimble.

In 1876, the R. L. Polk Company published The Kentucky State Gazetteer and Business Directory, which listed information about virtually every town in Kentucky. The listings from Trimble County are these:
Bedford	Milton	Winona

From George W. Hawes’ Kentucky State Gazetteer and Business
Directory, for 1859 and 1860, is this listing for Bedford. (pdf)

Trimble County sites placed on the National Places of Historical Places are here.

One of Trimble County's most written about citizens is artist
Harlan Hubbard. There are oral history interviews that have been transcribed. You
can read them, but need to search for "Harlan Hubbard" (use the quotes)
when you get here. A site devoted to the work of Hubbard is here, and last
but not least, you'll want to visit www.harlanhubbard.com.

The Kentucky Department of Agriculture's assessment of agriculture in Trimble County, in 1898-1899 can be found here. (pdf)

Lottie Snyder asked Byron Bacon Black for a History of Bedford. From his hospital bed, he said that’d take way too long, but he’d give her a view of the earliest days of the town. You can read his letter to her here.

Citizens of Trimble County, Carroll County, and Madison,
Indiana meet in April of 1861 to avoid Civil War Hostilities.
Read the story here, and follow-up stories here.

As part of his 1952 dissertation at UK, a student pastor in Bedford, Paul Richardson, made a list of the non-church, community organizations in Trimble County. Want to take a guess at how many? If so, you probably came up short of the 37 he found. The full list is here. (pdf)

In 1883, the Trimble Banner-Democrat described
the businesses in the City of Bedford. Read it here.

The Daily Commonwealth, a Covington Newspaper, reported on June 9, 1883
that the road from Locust, in Carroll County, to Milton would be completed "soon."

In 1920, John C. Strother compiled, and presented to the Louisville's
Filson Club in 1920, his Historical Sketch of Trimble County.
You can read it here. Clara Scott found the need in
1983 to correct a small piece of it, and her remarks are here.

"At 2 places between Carrollton and Madison, the Confederate flag is displayed to every passing steamer, particularly those descending the Ohio loaded with troops. These rebel ensigns are unfurled and vaunted to the breeze by females who flatter themselves that their sex will protect them." Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, February 23, 1862

A nice article on the magnitude of the blackberry crop in antebellum Trimble County is here. Curiously, there is no mention of slaves being involved. It’s also the only article you’ll read today which contains the sentence “Not bad wages for children to make.”

"Madison, Ind., Dec. 9. – James Divine shot “Lafe” Gammons dead in a quarrel at Bedford, Ky., 10 miles south of this city, last night, and was arrested today. Divine had been previously severely stabbed by Gammon’s father. In Trimble County opposite Madison, George Ewing probably fatally wounded one Evans, who was courting Ewing’s daughter against her father’s wishes." - New York Times, December 10, 1884.

In 1930, Kentucky Progress Magazine ran a feature letting each of Kentucky's counties list their accomplishments for 1929. What Trimble County came up with is here. (pdf)

Information on the two covered bridges that used to serve in Trimble County are listed in the data base at web site of Kentucky Covered Bridges, here.

The Interstate Commerce Commission moved part of Carroll County and Trimble County from the Central to the Eastern time zone at 2 a.m. on Sunday, July 23, 1961.

"Clarence Harmon has a new automobile. There are now 17 machines
owned by persons in or near Bedford. The whir of the engine is so
great on Sunday morning that the denizens of the county seat are
aroused from their slumber before 8 o'clock." Trimble Democrat, 7-13-1916.

In 1969, Edna Talbott Whitley compiled a list of Cabinetmakers
in Kentucky. The only one in Trimble County was F. F. Skidmore, who
was a furniture maker in Bedford in 1850.

Trimble County's Charles H. Hardin became Governor of
Missouri. Read about him here.

The Kentuckiana Digital Library has a number of Trimble
County images. Quality is erratic, but it's worth a look, here.

The Kentucky Historical Society's Trimble County images can
be found here. Click on the county search box when you get there.

The farmers of Trimble County elect to grow no group in 1908.
Story is here, a little background on the 1908 tobacco situation is here.

A status report from the Superintendent of Schools in Trimble County from 1900 is here.

Miss Louise B. Logan started at the Bedford Deposit Bank beginning
March 25, 1910, and was still with them over 64 years later, advancing from
clerk, to cashier, to vice-president.

In 1919, there was a farm census, counting livestock, crops and farms. Trimble County's is here.

The Madison Jefferson County Library has a collection of nearly 200 older
Madison, Indiana pictures from photographer Harry Lemen, here.

This list of Trimble County deaths from WWII is from
the National Archives. There's a key to what the
various abbreviations mean here, and the actual list is here.

There have been 24 locations in Trimble County that have
had a post office. The list is here.

You can get information on Trimble County ancestors by subscribing
to the mailing list created for that purpose. You'll get periodic
information, and can submit your own questions, all via email.
Sign up here for Trimble County.
Here is a list of all available lists on Kentucky.

There are two oral histories that have been transcribed
from former slaves from Trimble County. Assuming
you can read Adobe pdf files, the can read the story of
John Daugherty and the story of Grace Monroe.

Additional Links that apply to all of Northern Kentucky Views, and may or may not
be related to Trimble County, are on the main Links & Miscellany page, here.

Membership Rolls of the Masonic Lodges of Trimble County in 1911: (pdf's)
Bedford	Milton