History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr, American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. IV, p. 201, Fayette Co. ALBERT CREATH KARSNER, member of the Lexington real estate firm of Cassell & Karsner, has spent the greater part of his active life in practical farming operations in the famous Blue Grass section of Kentucky. His middle name was given in honor of the famous blind Baptist preacher Creath, who is remembered by many for the wholesale influence he exercised over the country for a generation, and his remarkable oratorical ability. Mr. Karsner was born at Lexington, August 12, 1873. His father, Albert Gallatin Karsner, was a native of Woodford County. Mr. Karsner's mother was Frances Cassell, eldest daughter of Leonard Cassell. She is still living at the age of ninety. Albert C. Karsner was for many years engaged in the livery business at Lexington and Danville. About 1874 he moved to the farm now owned by the State University just south of Lexington. In 1881 he went to another farm north of Lexington, and about 1896 to a farm on Nicholasville Pike, three miles south of Lexington. This farm is still occupied by his son William C. He lived there about ten years and died at the old homestead in March 1906 at the age of eighty. Mrs. Karsner is still living in the south part of Lexington. Her first husband was James Price and they spent their brief married life in Jessamine County. Her two sons by that marriage were Leonard C. and James C. Albert C. Karsner is the youngest of the surviving children. The oldest, George D., is a farmer on Clays Mill Pike, near Lexington; William C. has already been mentioned as owner of the old homestead farm; Allie W. is Mrs. C. N. Cochran, of Lexington. Albert C. Karsner grew up on the several farms mentioned as having been occupied by his father. He acquired good advantages in the local schools and learned the practical business of farming under his father. For over twenty years he was an independent farmer, and he still lives in the country on Versailles Pike. November 1, 1920, he became associated with Mr. Cassell in the real estate business. Mrs. Karsner is a daughter of Rufus and Belle (Pettit) Bryant. Mr. Karsner's grandmother was born in Virginia in 1800 and when two years of age rode in front of her mother on horseback to Kentucky. Belle Pettit's father, William Pettit lived south of Lexington on Nicholasville Pike. He erected the present Burt residence, which for years has been an interesting and historical landmark in that section. Being a Southern sympathizer William Pettit was ordered to leave the country during the Civil war, and his residence was occupied as headquarters for the Federal General, Burbridge. Cassell Cochran Karsner Pettit Price Bryant Creath = Woodford-Jessamine-KY VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/fayette/karsner.ac.txt