History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. V, p. 222,
Grant County

     A. G. DE JARNETTE, president of the Bank of Williamstown, has been
a practicing lawyer of that city for over fifty years, and is one of the
oldest members of the bar in Grant County still in active service.
     Mr. De Jarnette was born in Owen County, Kentucky September 22,
1841, .  His family has been identified with Kentucky affairs since the
closing years of the eighteenth century.  The De Jarnettes came
originally from France and were Colonial settlers in Virginia.  The
great-grandfather of the Williamstown attorney was Daniel De Jarnette, a
native of Virginia, who founded the family in Madison County, Kentucky,
where he acquired extensive tracts of land and developed much of it to
farm purposes.  He lived out his life in Madison County., One of his
sons, James De Jarnette, was a major in Colonel Dudley's Regiment during
the War of 1812, and for many years was prominent in county and state
affairs while a resident of Madison County.  Another son, John De
Jarnette died while with the army in the War of 1812, being in charge of
a transportation train.  Still another son of Daniel De Jarnette was
Abijah De Jarnette, grandfather of the Williamstown banker.  He was born
in Madison County, Kentucky in 1788, and for many years was identified
with farming in Madison County, but in 1846 moved to a frontier
district, Andrew County, in Northwest Missouri, where he died in 1861. 
He married Sarah Swinford, a native of Harrison County, who died in
Grant County.  Their son, J. W. De Jarnette, was born in 1841 removed to
Grant County, where he married and where he had extensive interests as a
farmer.  He served as sheriff of Grant County, was an active democrat, a
member of the Christian Church, and spent his last years retired at
Crittenden, where he died in February, 1920.  His wife was Margaret Ann
Williams, a life-long resident of Grant County, where she was born in
1820 and died 1n 1888.  A. G. De Jarnette is the oldest of her
children.  Sarah Elizabeth became the wife of G. W. Osborne, a farmer,
and both died in Grant County.  John M. was a farmer and died in Ohio. 
Monira, of Labelle, Missouri, is the widow of Dr. A. M. Thompson.  Miss
Romania died in Grant County at the age of thirty-two.  Charles A. was a
farmer and died in Grant County aged twenty-six.
     A. G. De Jarnette has been practically a life-long resident of
Grant County.  He attended rural schools, spent two years in the
literary department of the State University at Lexington, and another
two years as a student of law at the University, graduating L.L.B. in
February, 1869.  In the same year he began his practice at Williamstown,
and his devotion to the interests of his profession has been one of
marked regularity and attended with exceptional success.  He still keeps
his law offices in the Odd Fellows Building.  For the past six years he
has been president of the Bank of Williamstown and has been a director
for twenty years.  He owns considerable real estate in Williamstown,
including a modern home on Cynthiana Street.
     Mr. De Jarnette was for six years commonwealth attorney and since
1885 he has been local council for the C. N. O. & T. P. and the L. & N.
Railroad companies.  He has served on the City Council and on the School
Board, is an active democrat and a member of the Baptist Church.
     In December, 1869, in Grant County, he married Miss Alice Elliston,
who died nearly forty-seven years later, in June 1916.  Her parents were
J. T. and Maria (Merrell) Elliston, her father a farmer.  Mr. De
Jarnette has four children: Robert E., a druggist at Dry Ridge, Grant
County; J. B., unmarried, for many years associated with tobacco firms
and now oil inspector and trustee of the Jury Fund of Grant County;
Alice, living with her father, wife of W. E. Sullivan and Marie, wife of
Dr. J. J. Marshall, a physician and surgeon at Crittenden, Kentucky. 

De_Jarnette Elliston Marshall Merrell Osborne Sullivan Swinford Thompson
Williams
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