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Charles S. Brent (Bourbon County, Kentucky, banker)

b. 1811-01-28 d. 1881-02-16

Bourbon County, Kentucky, merchant and banker. Son of Hugh Brent. Married to Susan Clarissa Taylor Brent in Bourbon County on July 19, 1831. Father of Hugh Taylor Brant. Married to Matilda Chambers Brent. Father of John Brent, Elizabeth Brent, J. Sprigg Brent, Belle Hart Brent, Charles Brent, Hannah Brent, Thomas J. Brent, James A. Brent, Matilda Brent, Henry C. Brent, and Kelly Brent. Married to Martha Harding Ford Brent. Merchant in Bourbon County in 1850. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Bourbon County in 1850. Banker in Bourbon County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 2, p. 246A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon, Paris, p. 489.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon, Paris Ward 1, p. 424B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film 000851644.

George Norbury Mackenzie, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America: In Which is Given the History, Genealogy and Armorial Bearings of Colonial Families Who Settled in the American Colonies from the Time of the Settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775, vol. II (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1966), p. 419.

"Charles Scott Brent (1811-1881)," Find A Grave, Memorial 89874910, accessed December 8, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89874910.

Citation

Brent, Charles S.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214687 (November 12, 2026).

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