Charles Clay Trabue Explained

Charles Clay Trabue
Birth Date:August 27, 1798
Birth Place:Woodford County, Kentucky, U.S.
Death Date:November 24, 1851
Resting Place:Nashville City Cemetery
Occupation:Politician
Spouse:Agnes Green Woods
Children:9
Parents:Edward Trabue
Jane Clay

Charles Clay Trabue (1798–1851) was an American banker and Whig politician.[1] [2] [3] He served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1824 to 1828, and as the Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1839 to 1841.[1] [2] [3]

Early life

Charles Clay Trabue was born in Woodford County, Kentucky on August 27, 1798.[1] [3] His father was Edward Trabue and his mother, Jane Clay.[1] [3] At the age of seventeen, he joined served as Sergeant and joined Andrew Jackson in his fight against Native Americans during the Seminole Wars.[3]

Career

Trabue arrived in Tennessee in 1818[1] in order to work as a clerk at the Nashville branch of the Second Bank of the United States.[3] [4]

Shortly after marrying in 1820, the newlywed couple moved to Missouri.[4] In 1824, he was elected as Missouri State Representative, where he served one term, until 1828.[3] The couple then relocated to Tennessee. In 1836, he was elected to the Nashville Board of Aldermen, and reelected in 1837.[3] He served as Mayor of Nashville from 1839 to 1841.[1] [2]

Personal life and death

Trabue married Agnes Green Woods on July 5, 1820.[1] They had nine children.[1] He attended First Baptist Church of Nashville and sat on its building committee for a new church on Fifth Avenue.[3]

Trabue died of brain fever[4] on November 24, 1851, and he is buried in the Nashville City Cemetery.[1] [3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN . 2013-03-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160313015642/http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nashvillearchives/mayors.html . 2016-03-13 . dead .
  2. Web site: Nashville Library . 2013-03-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160314070753/http://www.library.nashville.org/research/res_nash_history_mayors.asp . 2016-03-14 . dead .
  3. Web site: Nashville City Cemetery . 2013-03-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141112193654/http://www.thenashvillecitycemetery.org/110026_trabue.htm . 2014-11-12 . dead .
  4. Book: Colonial Men and Times. 9781428629615. Harper. Lillie Dupuy Vanculin. June 2006. Kessinger .