0104 – Thomas Sr.

1820 NC Rowan Yadkin p209

1830 NC Ashe none p18

1840 NC Wilkes LewisFork p97

1850 NC Wilkes none p355 51WM NC

1860 AR Fulton BigSpringTwp p457 62WM NC

Thomas first appears in the census in 1820 Rowan County. He and his wife are shown in the 16-26 years old category. There are no other persons in the household. Thomas is shown in the 1830 Ashe county census with one male child, Isaac, under five years of age, and two unidentified females, 5-10 years old. In the 1840 Wilkes County census, Isaac is now in the 10-15 age range, and there is another unidentified female, 5-10 years old. Thomas Sr. is in the 1850 census living in Wilkes County, North Carolina with wife Polly and sons Thomas, 9, and Lindsey, 5.

Thomas Trivitt and sons Isaac, Thomas, and Lindsey moved to Arkansas from North Carolina between 1850 and 1852.  William Cranfill and family probably came at the same time.  William is the next door neighbor of Thomas Sr. in the 1860 Fulton County, Arkansas census.

A Thomas Trivitt or Isaac Trivitt were on the Fulton County, Arkansas tax rolls for the years 1852, 1853, 1856, 1858, 1859, 1861, and 1867. Those rolls do not distinguish between Thomas Jr. and Thomas Sr. (2).

Thomas Sr. died possibly in 1867, since the property tax rolls show an entry for that year as “Trevit, Thomas, William Cranfield as Admn.” (2). They also were the recipients of federal government land grants. Again, the names on the grants do not differentiate between Thomas Jr. and Thomas Sr., although the 1904 grant was undoubtedly for Thomas Jr. The same-dated grants in 1859 and 1860 were most likely for each of them (72):

Thomas Trivitt July 1, 1859 Baxter County 38 acres

Thomas Trivitt July 1, 1859 Baxter County 42 acres

Thomas Trivitt May 1, 1860 Baxter County 80 acres

Thomas Trivitt May 1, 1860 Baxter County 120 acres

Thomas Trivitt August 1, 1861 Baxter County 40 acres

Thomas Trivitt October 22, 1904 Baxter County 75 acres

Remarks: “RIGHT BANK OF WHITE RIVER”

Thomas Jr. and Lindsey both enlisted on the same day in the 14th Arkansas Confederate Infantry.  Lindsey died at a Confederate hospital in Priceville, Mississippi of unknown causes.  Thomas Jr. was part of the surrender of the unit at the battle of Port Hudson, Louisiana after it was learned Grant had taken Vicksburg.  He and the rest of the unit were released four days later (1).

Thomas owned slaves, which he probably brought with him from North Carolina to Arkansas. In the 1860 census slave schedule Thomas Trivitt owned three slaves: a 25 year old male, a 22 year old female, and a one year old male. In the 1870 Fulton County census there is a black family four households from Tinley Trivit, widow of Isaac. It is headed by Wesley Trivit, 30 years old, with his 29 year old wife and four children.  The oldest child is an 11 year old male. He and his wife were born in North Carolina; the kids were born in Arkansas.  There are no other black residents nearby. The ages of the parents do not match up well between the 1860 and 1870 censuses, but the son is an exact match. It is not likely a black family would move on its own from one slave state to another slave state.

Fulton County, Arkansas is now Baxter County.

The Arkansas Trivettes seem to prefer the Trivitt spelling.