Pinkney Varble

Birth Date

1828-09-05

Death Date

1892-04-02

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, riverboat captain. North Carolina native. Married to Mary Frances Littrell Varble in 1852. Father of Mary C. Varble, Nelson L. Varble, Pinkney Varble, Jr., Melvin D. Varble. Falls pilot in Louisville in 1860 and 1870. Owned and captained steamboats which transported troops and supplies during the Civil War.

W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 8th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 919-20.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 1, p. 124.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 4, p. 20.
Find A Grave, "Daniel Pinkney "Pink" Varble (1828-1892)," Memorial #84250064, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84250064 (accessed October 26, 2017). “Reminiscences of Capt. "Pink" Varble,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), August 8, 1897, p. A6.

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