Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 502-506 (portrait with document) [Christian]

     JOSEPH F. GARNETT, the president of the Planters' Bank and
Trust Company of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is the grandson of an old
pioneer, James Garnett, a native of Virginia, who came to Christian
county, Kentucky, in the latter years of the eighteenth century, and
settled at Pembroke, Kentucky, where he died.
     James T. Garnett, the father of Joseph F., was also a native of
Virginia, and came with his father to Kentucky when he was about
twelve years old.  He had the advantages of a course at Princeton
University, where he graduated, and then taught school for about
twenty years, his labors in this line being in Montgomery county,
Tennessee, and Christian county, Kentucky.  After his marriage to
Miss Mary E. Fauntleroy, a native of Virginia and of a prominent
family, he located in Montgomery county, Tennessee, for a time, then
returned to Christian county for one year, and, coming once more to
Montgomery county, built a school-house on his own place and kept a
boarding school, until 1852, when he gave up teaching and bought a
farm in Christian county, Kentucky, five miles southeast of
Hopkinsville.  Here he lived till his death in 1883; his wife died
in 1882, at the home place in Christian county, and both are buried
in the old family plot at Pembroke.  They were life-long members of
the Baptist church.  All of their seven children are still living:
Joseph F. is the oldest, and then came Walter F.; Marion H.; Lyda
B., the wife of Robert J. Downer; Ellen G., the wife of W. W. Boone;
James T.; and Mary Fannie.
     Joseph F. Garnett was born in Montgomery county, Tennessee,
December 16, 1844, and at the age of twelve moved with his parents
to Christian county.  His father gave him a good common school
education, in the old field schools of the county, and at the age of
eighteen he began the duties of teacher himself.  He taught at Oak
Grove Academy for about fourteen years, his long service being ample
proof of his success.  He bought a farm near Bell station, and for
the next ten years was engaged in managing this.  Selling out, he
purchased a place on the Clarksville and Hopkinsville pike, seven
miles from the latter city, and this is where he makes his present
residence, still carrying on farming operations with his son.  In
1900 he was made president of the Planters' Bank, which at the same
time was reorganized and made the Planters' Bank and Trust Company,
with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars.  Mr. Garnett's home
farm consists of six hundred acres, his two older sons own farms of
three hundred acres each, and his wife has one of three hundred, so
that the family possess in all fifteen hundred acres of Christian
county land.  Mr. Garnett is president of the Crescent Milling
Company of Hopkinsville, and is also a member of the furniture firm,
Pyle & Garnett, and owns the large Garnett block in Hopkinsville.
     In November, 1869, Mr. Garnett married Miss Emma Whitlock, and
the two children now living are John W., and Thomas W.  The mother
died in 1876, and Mr. Garnett married, in 1878, Miss Wilmoth
Holland, from which union there have been three children, Holland,
Elizabeth and Fauntleroy.  Mr. Garnet [sic] is a member of and
deacon in the Baptist church, and treasurer of the executive board
of Bethel Association, of which association he was elected moderator
in 1902 and again in 1903.  He is past master in the Masonic lodge,
and has represented his lodge in the grand lodge of the state.  Mr.
Garnett is one of the most influential citizens of Christian county,
and he may be proud of the fact that his position of affluence is
the result of his won persevering and energetic effort.

Garnett Fauntleroy Downer Boone Pyle Whitlock Holland
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VA Montgomery-TN

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