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Dr Philip Grable Trunnell

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Dr Philip Grable Trunnell

Birth
Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA
Death
4 Apr 1913 (aged 67)
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
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Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
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Philip Grable Trunnell was born on the family farm in Bullitt County, KY in 1846. His parents were Henry Trunnell and Louisa Grable. They divorced when he was very young and he was raised by his father and his 2nd wife, Mary Jane Bowman Trunnell. He was 14 when the Civil War started and he ran away to join the Rebel troops at Bowling Green, Kentucky. He served throughout the entire Civil War in the famed Orphan Brigade and under General John Hunt Morgan as a sharpshooter and one of "Morgans Raiders". At the end of the War he attended Medical School at the University of Louisville, practicing medicine in Louisville for 41 years until his death in 1913. He married Hattie Virginia Hatzell in 1875 and they had three children- Bradley James Trunnell, Edna Crauch Trunnell and George Hatzell Trunnell. He and Hattie divorced and he later married Margaret Weiss Chessman.

Philip Grable Trunnell was born on the family farm in Bullitt County, KY in 1846. His parents were Henry Trunnell and Louisa Grable. They divorced when he was very young and he was raised by his father and his 2nd wife, Mary Jane Bowman Trunnell. He was 14 when the Civil War started and he ran away to join the Rebel troops at Bowling Green, Kentucky. He served throughout the entire Civil War in the famed Orphan Brigade and under General John Hunt Morgan as a sharpshooter and one of "Morgans Raiders". At the end of the War he attended Medical School at the University of Louisville, practicing medicine in Louisville for 41 years until his death in 1913. He married Hattie Virginia Hatzell in 1875 and they had three children- Bradley James Trunnell, Edna Crauch Trunnell and George Hatzell Trunnell. He and Hattie divorced and he later married Margaret Weiss Chessman.

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Philip G. Trunnell
2nd Ky Cavalry
Morgan's Command
The headstone is in the Confederate section at Cave Hill Cemetery. CS LOT 2671/2 #63

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