Person

Kenaz Farrow (Montgomery County, Kentucky, judge and farmer)

b. 1794-12-23 d. 1864-08-31

Montgomery County, Kentucky, judge and farmer. Culpeper County, Virginia, native. Married to Susan French Farrow in Clark County, Kentucky, on January 14, 1814. Father of Edward R. Farrow, Elizabeth B. Farrow, and Stephen F. Farrow. Read law with Samuel Hanson in Clark County in 1812. Served in Captain James Sympson's Company, Kentucky Militia, as a private in the War of 1812 in 1814. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1822 to 1824. Judge of the Eleventh Judicial District of Kentucky from 1838 to 1851. Household owned sixteen enslaved persons in Montgomery County in 1850. Owned at least two enslaved persons in Montgomery County in 1857. Farmer in Montgomery County in 1860. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in Montgomery County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, District 1, p. 13B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, District 1, p. 110.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, p. 241.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, p. 77A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Clark County Marriages, Film 001943687, p. 118.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994049, Montgomery County Births.

Kurt X. Mertzmeier, "Judges of the Kentucky Circuit Courts, 1831-1861," Kentucky Ancestors, vol. 43: (Spring 2008), no. 3,151-156.

Richard Reid, Historical Sketches of Montgomery County, (Lexington: James M. Byrnes Company, 1926), p. 42-43.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 632.

G. Glenn Clift, Notes on Kentucky Veterans of the War of 1812 (Anchorage, KY: Borderland Books, 1964), 18.

"Judge Kenaz Farrow (1794-1864)," Find A Grave, Memorial 13122435, accessed July 19, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13122435.

Citation

Farrow, Kenaz. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213703 (November 12, 2026).

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