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VanRiper-Trimble-Jones family of Indiana and Kentucky

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  Robert Trimble (1776-1828) — of Kentucky. Born in Augusta County, Va., November 17, 1776. Member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1802; state court judge in Kentucky, 1807; U.S. Attorney for Kentucky, 1813-16; federal judge, 1817; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1826-28. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons. Died August 25, 1828 (age 51 years, 282 days). Interment at Paris Cemetery, Paris, Ky.
  Relatives: Grandfather of James Garrard Jones.
  Political family: VanRiper-Trimble-Jones family of Indiana and Kentucky.
  Trimble County, Ky. is named for him.
  James Garrard Jones (1814-1872) — also known as James G. Jones — of Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Ind. Born in Paris, Bourbon County, Ky., July 3, 1814. Republican. Lawyer; mayor of Evansville, Ind., 1847-53; Indiana state attorney general, 1861; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; circuit judge in Indiana, 1869. Episcopalian. Died in Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Ind., April 5, 1872 (age 57 years, 277 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.
  Relatives: Married 1838 to Rose Ann Rappelye; father-in-law of Eccles G. Van Riper; grandson of Robert Trimble.
  Political family: VanRiper-Trimble-Jones family of Indiana and Kentucky.
  See also Wikipedia article
  Eccles G. Van Riper (b. 1841) — of Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Ind. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., October 4, 1841. Democrat. Mayor of Evansville, Ind., 1870. In 1862, while traveling on business in Arkansas, was captured by the Confederate Army and charged with being a spy; tried before a military court in Little Rock and sentenced to death; reprieved by the arrival of a new military commander, but imprisoned until the end of the war. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son-in-law of James Garrard Jones.
  Political family: VanRiper-Trimble-Jones family of Indiana and Kentucky.
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