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William Garnett (Jefferson County, Kentucky, clerk, trustee, and bank cashier)

b. 1816-03-27 d. 1906-04-16

Jefferson County, Kentucky, clerk, bank cashier, and trustee. Kentucky native. Married to Eugenia Tompkins Garnett in Barren County, Kentucky, on January 21, 1840. Father of Theodocia P. Garnett, Christopher Garnett, Benjamin G. Garnett, Elizabeth Garnett, Frances Carrey Garnett, Richard Garnett, John L. Garnett, William Garnett, and Eugenia Garnett. Clerk in Barren County, Kentucky, in 1850. Trustee of the Kentucky Institution for the Education of the Blind in Jefferson County in 1859. Cashier of the Southern Bank of Kentucky in Louisville from 1860 to 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Glasgow, p. 397A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 7, p. 523.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Ward 5, p. 158B.

The Bankers’ Magazine and Statistical Register, ed. J. Smith Homans, vol. 16 (January 1860), 572, 995.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Barren County Marriages, Film #005552451.

Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-1859 (Louisville: Hurd and Burrows, 1859), 236.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 97, 325, 337.

"William Garnett (1816-1906)," Find A Grave, Memorial #121158427, accessed September 30, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121158427.

KYR-0001-031-0051.

Citation

Garnett, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214221 (November 12, 2026).

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