His parents had ten children, of whom half lived during census years, including three elder and a younger brother and Ann, the eldest daughter and nearly a decade older than this boy.

[8] During the Civil War, in 1864 Trigg enlisted as a private in the First Virginia Cavalry, a unit in which his older brother Thomas K. Trigg (who in August 1861 had enlisted in the 37th Virginia Infantry) had transferred, but would himself transfer to the Confederate States Navy and served on the CSS "Leasing" in 1865 before becoming involved in Confederate organizations after the war.

[9] After the war, Trigg studied law, was admitted to the Virginia bar in Abingdon in 1870, and two years later was elected Commonwealth attorney for Washington County, which position he held until resigning in 1884 to become run for Congress.

Wyndham Roberston died in 1863, but whose brother CSA Lt. Frank Robertson survived the conflict and lived in Abingdon.

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