Person

William F. Barret (Louisville attorney)

b. 1820-04-05 d. 1882-09-28

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney. Green County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Barret and Mary Walker Wood Barret. Married to Maria Elizabeth Goodloe Barret on July 8, 1846. Father of William Goodloe Barret, Henry Owsley Barret, Mary Walker Barret, John Barret, William Goodloe Barret, Maria Elizabeth Barret. Attorney in Green County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Green County in 1850. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p.120A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 6, p. 361.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 6, pp. 279A, 281B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 8th Ward, p. 86.

George Norbury Mackenzie, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, vol. VI (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1966), 275-6.

“William F. Barret Dead,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), September 29, 1882, p. 8.

Citation

Barret, William F.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198069 (November 12, 2026).

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