History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,

Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p.

728.



LARKIN M. BURNETT, born in Hancock County, Ky., Dec. 17, 1825, is a son

of William and Nancy (Vest) Burnett, natives of Virginia.  His parents

move to Kentucky, first going to Grayson County, where they remained

only a year, and went to Hancock County.  Larkin M. was reared in

Hancock and Breckinridge counties, and when sixteen years old went to

learn the blacksmith's trade, which he worked at twenty-five years.  He

was living in Memphis at the breaking out of the Mexican war, and

enlisted in Company I, Fourteenth Tennessee Regiment, and served through

the war.  After the war he returned to Hancock County and resided there

a year, and Jan. 15, 1850, came to Daviess County and located at

Yelvington, where he lived a short time and then moved to the forks of

Panther Creek and resided thirteen years.  He then moved ten miles above

Owensboro and remained a year.  In 1866 he bought a farm in Murray

Precinct where he lived four years and then bought his present farm of

150 acres.  Mr. Burnett has served as Road Overseer and Trustee of this

precinct.  He has been a member of the Baptist church thirty-four

years.  He was married in 1850 to Mary Arminta, daughter of Richard C.

Jett, and a native of Daviess County.  They have had nine children, only

seven living--Gramalda, now Mrs. William Hedges; Susan F., now Mrs.

Morris Enright; William T., married Alice Calvert; Richard L., Mary B.,

now Mrs. J. H. Burnell; John C., married Mollie Knott; Minnie.  David T.

and Emily L. are deceased.



Burnett Vest Jett Hedges Enright Calvert Burnell Knott

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