Col. Edward Trabue
“My grandfather’s name was Sir Anthony Straboo, but Colonel Byrd (of Virginia), set it down as Anthony Trabue, and so we write our names to this day.” — Colonel Daniel Trabue’s Journal.
The Trabue family bloodlines runs across two continents and is very documented. Other historical figures dot the tree as well. Henry Clay, American Statesmen was the first cousin to Edward Trabue’s wife, Jane Elizabeth Clay (photo).
His father, John James Trabue, born in 1722 in Henrico, Virgina, was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War and received pay and bounty lands under an Act of Congress. Trabue and five of his sons were in the Revolutionary War …
Edward’s mother, Olymipia Dupuy hailed from a Huguenot family as did the Trabue’s, they had fled from France at he time of the bloody persecution against the dissenters of the Roman Catholics. John James and Olympia Dupuy Trabue built a large limestone home on Grier’s Creek in Woodford County near Tyrone, KY. It is on the National Registry of Historical Houses. John and Mary O’Rear’s family live in the house today.
The Trabue’s had 16 children. The four sons of John James Trabue and Olympia DuPuy Trabue—William, Col Daniel, Edward, and Stephen—married four daughters of Col Robert Haskins and his wife Elizabeth Hill Haskins— Elizabeth, Mary, Martha (or Patsy), and Jane Haskins.
Also, five of John James and Olympia Trabue’s sons James, John, William, Daniel and Edward fought in the Revolutionary War.
James Trabue – Born in 1745 in Chesterfield County, Va., was Commissary Gen. Under Col. George Rogers Clark; was Commissary Gen. in the Revolutionary War, in the Dept of KY. Surveyor with Col Daniel Boone: Died 1803 in Kentucky.
John Trabue – Born in 1754 in Chesterfield County, Va., was Col. in Revolutionary War; Deputy Surveyor of Kentucky lands under John May.
William Trabue – Born in 1756, Sergeant in the VA. Line in the Revolutionary War, given bounty land of 200 acres for his service.
Daniel Trabue – Born in 1760, Commissary General in Continental Army and served in the expedition under Col. George Rogers Clark. He was Issuing Commissary General under his brother, James Trabue, who was Commissary General; was at the surrender at Yorktown, served under Generals Lafayette and Muhlenberg, sheriff and Justice of the Peace in Kentucky, settled on Greer’s Creek, Fayette County, Kentucky. On July 13, 1778 Daniel Trabue became quartermaster sergeant of Logan’s fort. In a twelve-week span he recorded supplies, either bought or acquired by hunting of 84 bushels of corn, 724 pounds of pork, 2779 pounds of tame beef, and 2820 pounds of buffalo beef. (18) Daniel Trabue presided at the court martial of Daniel Boone. Family home in Columbia, KY. 8 children; One of Daniel’s children, 12-year-old Johnny, was murdered by the infamous Harpe Brothers during their 1798-9 foray through southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee during which they butchered more than 25 settlers.
Edward Trabue – Born 1762, Chesterfield, Va, enlisted at age sixteen and became a Colonel in the Virginia Militia in the Revolution War. He fought at Guilford Court House, NC 15 Mar 1781; was present at Gates’ defeat at Yorktown in 1782. Edward received a tract of 200 acres in Lincoln County from Patrick Henry, Esq., Governor of VA on March 24, 1783. The deed was issued at Richmond, VA, December 2, 1785. Edward Trabue and his wife Martha Haskins Trabue, a daughter of Col Robert Haskins and his wife Elizabeth Hill, of the Hills of Surrey, both of English origin, and descendants of the early Virginia Colonists, immigrated to Kentucky after the Revolutionary War.
The Trabue’s built for themselves a handsome home in Woodford County, near the Kentucky River and the home of Edward’s parents, John James and Olympia Du Puy Trabue. History of Woodford County relates the story that when General Lafayette toured America after the Revolutionary War in 1824-5, he visited Fayette and Woodford counties and upon meeting Edward Trabue he “put his arms around Edward and wept at the sight of a fellow Frenchman. He may well have become acquainted with Edward years before during the Revolutionary War. Edward died in 1814 and is buried in the family cemetery in Tyrone, KY.
Sources:
From Daniel Trabue ‘s Journal and family historical and genealogical research –
Colonial men and times; containing the journal of Col. Daniel Trabue, some account of his ancestry, life and travels in Virginia and the present state of Kentucky during the revolutionary period; the Huguenots, genealogy, with brief sketches of the allied families – 1915 by Harper, Lillie Du Puy Van Culin, editor; Trabue, Daniel, 1760-1840. Published by Philadelphia, Penna., Innes & Sons
https://archive.org/details/colonialmentimes00harp/page/n9/mode/2up
Trabue Family in America -Julie Trabue Yates and Dr. Charles C. Trabue 1983
Trabue, Charles C., ed. 1983. The Trabue Family in America, 1700-1983. Nashville, Tennessee: J.T. Yates & C.C. Trabue IV.
Trabue Family Tree – Georga Foster, 2001 – Ancestry
Trabue Family Reports – Southern Kentucky Researchers – https://www.so-ky.com/
Submitted by Georga Foster – Col. Edward Trabue is my third great- grand father.