History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 589.
[Scott County]  [Georgetown City and Precinct]

HON. WILLIAM S. DARNABY, lawyer; Georgetown; was born Dec. 20, 1821, in
Fayette County, Ky.; his father James Darnaby, was surveyor of Fayette
County for thirty years; was for a time Deputy Sheriff; a Kentuckian by
birth, of Virginia parents; his mother was Ellen Sharp, daughter of Richard
Sharp, of Fayette.  William Sharp Darnaby received a good education in the
best private schools of the country; served eight years as Deputy Surveyor
of Fayette County; at the age of twenty-two, commenced the study of law
with Samuel R. Bullock, of Lexington; attended two courses of lectures at
Transylvania University; graduated in 1846; in the following year entered
upon the practice of his profession at Georgetown, where he has since
resided; was County Attorney of Scott County for twelve years, serving
two terms before, and one after, the war; was elected to the State Senate
in 1857; was, from the first, a strong sympathizer with the cause of the
South; accompanied Bragg's Army; was appointed aid to Provisional Governor
Harris, with the rank of Colonel; and, at the close of the war, returned to
Georgetown, and resumed the practice of his profession, in which he has
taken a leading rank in central Kentucky.  In politics he is a Democrat,
of the States Rights School.  Col. Darnaby was married in 1859, to Miss
Fannie H. Lindsay, daughter of James M. Lindsay, of Scott County.  In 1872,
he was again married, to Miss Lizzie Wheeler, of Hampton, Virginia.

Darnaby Sharp Lindsay Wheeler
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Fayette-KY VA

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