Samuel Trotter

Known to have died as result of the Cholera Edpidemic which overcame the city of Lexington from June 1st to August 1st or better of 1833.

William Leavy paper indicate the following dead during the Cholera Edpidemic.

At Mr. Trotter's my sisters in law, Mrs. Holland and Sarah K. Trotter, aged 14, and Mr. Trotter himself were all numbered among the victims. Mrs. Holland died 1/2 past 2 o'clock Saturday Aug. 24th. Sarah L. Trotter at 1/2 past 9 o'clock 12th Augt. 1833 after 4 or 5 days illness of Bilious Fever, Saml. Trotter died 23d 1833 aged 54 yrs. 9 months 25 days.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kyfayett/memoir_part8.htm

Note: I had found him mentioned as dying in Aug of 1833, this goes along with what Mr. Leavy writes in his notes. Using this death date and subtracting the years, months and days, this is how I came up with a possible birth date for Samuel Trotter.

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• O'Dell, Gary A. "The Trotter Family, Gunpowder, and Early Kentucky Entrepreneurship, 1784-1833." The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 88, no. 4 (1990): 394-430. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23381898.
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