David Chenault [iii], a substantial farmer and citizen of the First District of Sumner County, was born in Madison County, Ky., in 1833, and was the third child of a family of nine sons and five daughters, all living but one daughter, and all of the sons living in Sumner County but one. They are prosperous farmers and all owning adjoining farms, there being over 2,500 acres in one body, of the most fertile land in Sumner County. The father [David, Jr.] was of French descent, born in Madison Co. Ky., in 1800, and a son of David Chenault [Sr.], a native of Virginia, born about 1768, and died in 1852. He moved to Madison County, Ky., when ten years old, with his father, William Chenault, who was a native of France. He spent the rest of his life in Madison County, and was a man of wealth and prominence, and was a Baptist minister for over forty years. David Chenault [Jr.], our subject's father, was married in 1827, and came to Sumner County in 1836, and purchased the farm on which stood the old Greenfield Fort, and he became one of the most successful farmers and extensive land owners in Sumner County. He was a man of fine character, industrious and charitable. He died in 1883. The mother was also a native of Madison County, and still lives at the old homestead in her seventy-sixth year, a faithful member of the Christian Church. The Chenaults are one of the most highly respected families in Sumner County. Our subject received a good common-school and business education. February, 1856, he was married to Miss Martha Elizabeth, daughter of Horace and Mary (Brown) Head. Four sons and two daughters, out of nine children born to this marriage, are living: Walker, Elizabeth (wife of Daniel C. Amos, near Bowling Green, Ky.), Lutie, Joe, David Horace and Frank. At the time of his marriage he was located in District No. 11, where he remained until 1858, when he settled below Gallatin, and in 1860 located on the farm where he now resides, and which he has since increased to 620 acres of land, well cultivated, and with a handsome brick residence on it. He is a man of fine judgment and kind heart, and a valuable citizen. He was formerly a Whig, and cast his first presidential vote for Fillmore in 1856, but since the war has been a Democrat. Mr. and Mrs. Chenault and three of the children are members of the Christian Church. Mrs. Chenault was born at Hickman, Ky., July 29, 1837; her father was a native of Orange County, Va., and her mother of Sumner County.