(1) Name: Governor James GARRARD
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Birth: January 14, 1748 Stafford County, Virginia
Death: January 19, 1822 Mount Lebanon, Bourbon County, Kentucky Age: 74
Father: William GARRARD (1714-1786)
Mother: Mary NAUGHTY (-1755)

Misc. Notes
Notes on James GARRARD: [1]
James Garrard served with distinction in the Revolutionary Army and he was a member of the Virginia Legislature. He emigrated to Kentucky in 1783, and shared conspicuously in the early history of the state. He was a member of the conventions which met in Danville in 1785, looking to the formation of a new state; served in the conventions of 1787-88, representing Bourbon County; was a member of the Virginia Legislature from Kentucky; was a member of the convention of 1792 which framed the first constitution of Kentucky, was several times member of the legislature and in 1806 was elected second Governor of Kentucky, and at the expiration of his term was re-elected, filling the position for eight years with distinguished ability, his long administration being characterized for the peace and prosperity of the state.

In honor of him Garrard county was named. He was a man of great strength of character; was a Christian; possessed a practical mind, which made him one of the most useful men in his time; was greatly beloved by the people of the state; in every way honored as a friend and neighbor. Of early legal and official life in Kentucky few men stand out in the picture more prominently than General James Governor. He came to the state at a time when he was most needed and he left his finger marks upon its early history, telling the story of his handiwork and writing his epitaph in the hearts, not only on his descendants, but of thousands who reaped and enjoyed the fruits of his labor.

He died at his residence, Mount Lebanon in Bourbon County, January 19th, 1822 and in the winter of that year the legislature declared a monument to be erected to his memory in the family burying ground next to the residence.

The inscription reads, " this marble consecrates the spot on which repose the mortal remains of Col. James Garrard. Endeared to his county, his friends and to society by the practice of social virtues of husband, father, friend and neighbor, honored by the country by frequent calls to represent her dearest interests in her legislative councils, and finally by two elections to fill the chair of governor of the state;.....a trust for eight successive years he filled with that energy; vigor and impartiality, which, tempered with Christian spirit and with god-like mercy and charity for the fraility of man, is but calculated to perpetuate the inestimable blessings of government and happiness of man."

Information on the dates of births and marriages of his children was taken from his Bible and copied by Mrs. Jouett Taylor Cannon, Susannah Hart, Shelby Chapter, Frankfort, Ky., and Miss Genevieve Lindsey, Frankfort, Ky., March 1928.
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HON. JAMES GARRARD (Second and Third Governor) [2]
(1749-1822)

In his sketches of the "Governors of Kentucky" in 1862,Orlando Brown said that in the eight years of James Garrard's two terms from 1796 to 1804, graver and more momentous subjects were encountered than in any other eight years of the state's political existence. The occupying claimant laws, the disposal of the Green River lands, the establishment of a Court of Appeals, discussions of the gradual emancipation of slaves (as advocated by Henry Clay and opposed by John Breckinridge), the chartering of banks in the guise of insurance companies, the debates and resolutions of opposition to John Adams' Alien and Sedition laws, were a few of the issues, while the adoption of the second constitution in 1799 was an important accomplishment.

Born in Stafford County, Virginia, to William and Mary Lewis Garrard, Colonel James Garrard had served in the county militia during the Revolution and as a member of the House of Delegates in 1781, before coming to Kentucky. In 1785/6 he was again in the assembly, representing Fayette County, then in Kentucky District. A delegate to four conventions at Danville, looking toward separation, 1785 to 1788, he was also one of the framers of the first Kentucky Constitution in 1792, after statehood was achieved. In grateful remembrance of France's timely assistance in our struggle for independence, he is said to have proposed the name "Bourbon" for the new county formed in 1786, and "Paris" for its county-seat, previously established as "Hopewell."

His portrait is one of many copies which he commissioned Chester Harding to make for his children, from an earlier painting by St. Leger de Happert, at Philadelphia in 180 5. This copy formerly belonged to his son, Colonel Daniel Garrard, of the War of 1812, a senator from Clay County, 1813 to 1817 and 1825 to 1829. From him it descended to the donor.

Oil on canvas, 29" X 241/2". By Chester Harding after De Happert, Paris
Owner: The National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Kentuckv, by gift of Mrs. Ingles Folger Frost (Elizabeth Garrard Baker)
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Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago. Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press. p. 639. Bourbon County.

JAMES GARRARD, in whose honor Garrard county was named, was the second governor of Kentucky and was an important factor in founding the state and molding its early policy. He was born in Stafford county, Virginia, January 14, 1749, and served with distinction as one of the Revolutionary patriots. He was a member of the Virginia legislature and at an early day removed to Kentucky, where he bore a prominent part in the events which formed the early history of the state. He was a member of the convention which met in Danville in 1785, looking to the formation of a new state; served in the conventions of 1787 and 1788, representing Bourbon county, and was a member of the Virginia legislature from Kentucky. He was also a prominent figure in the convention of 1792, which framed the first state constitution; was several times the representative of his district in the Kentucky legislature, and in 1796 was elected the second governor of the new commonwealth, filling the office by re-election for eight years, the only man so honored in the history of the state, he administering its affairs with distinguished ability and thereby promoting the peace and prosperity of the state.
He was beloved by all Kentuckians and was honored for his able public service, for his Christian character and the purity of his private life. He died at his home in Bourbon county, January 19, 1822, and in the winter of that year the legislature ordered a monument to be erected to his memory.

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Spouses
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1: Elizabeth MOUNTJOY
Birth: May 2, 1751 Stafford County, Virginia
Death: August 28, 1832 Bourbon County, Kentucky Age: 81
Father: William MOUNTJOY
Mother: Phillis REILLY

Misc. Notes
MRS. JAMES GARRARD [3]
(Elizabeth Mountjoy)
(1751 -1832)

From the day when Mrs. Garrard drove up with her husband in a carriage drawn by four black horses to become the first mistress of the netv Governor's Mansion in 1799, she dispensed the lavish hospitality for which her descendants are famous. At a family Christmas dinner soon after, she served two turkeys, a number of ducks, fifty pounds of roast beef, bacon, vegetables, and side dishes, topped off with her home-made peach wine.

Born in Stafford County, Virginia, to William and Phyllis Markham Mountjoy, she was married in 1769. Bringing five children, she came to occupy the site of Martin's Fort, Bourbon County, which her husband had purchased. So great was her relief after her weary journey, and so pleasing the prospect of their campsite in a horseshoe bend of Stoner Creek by a fine, flowing spring, that she christened it "Fairfield" and the small stream below, "Aquia" for the creek near her former home. Whether she grew to fear a repetition of the Indian attack from the overlooking cliff, or whether she decided that the low-lying position was unhealthy, we do not know. But when James Garrard returned from his Virginia legislative session in 1786, he found she had calmly started the building of another stone house on the elevation across Stoner. This became "Mt. Lebanon," still occupied by descendants.

This portrait is one of a pair chosen by her daughter, Elizabeth Mountjoy, who, as the widow of James Allen Brooks, accompanied by a small daughter, Eliza, came home to live until the latter's first marriage in 18 3 3. The painting was somewhat damaged in 1930 by a fire at the home of the great-great-granddaughter who owns it.

Oil on canvas, 26" X 21". By Chester Harding
Owner: Mrs. Polk South, Jr., (Alice Alexander), Franklin County
Hume print from the owner

Marriage: December 20, 1769
Children: William (1771-1838)
James Douglas (1773-1838)
John (1774-1776)
Mary (1776-~1818)
John Mountjoy (1778-1838)
Daniel (1780-1866)
Elizabeth Mountjoy (1783-1843)
Nancy (1785-1785)
Anne Eleanor (1786-1875)
Margaret “Peggy” (1788-1815)
Maria (1790-1876)
Sarah (1793-1793)


Sources
1. Genealogies of Kentucky Families [Register of the Ky. Historical Soc.] Vol O-Y, pp. 689-690]
2. Whitley, Edna Talbott. Kentucky Ante-Bellum Portraiture, (The National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1956), pp. 366-367
3. Whitley, Edna Talbott. Kentucky Ante-Bellum Portraiture, (The National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1956), pp. 260-261

(2) Name: James Douglas GARRARD Jr.
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Birth: January 31, 1773 Stafford County, Virginia
Death: September 1, 1838 Age: 65
Father: Governor James GARRARD (1748-1822)
Mother: Elizabeth MOUNTJOY (1751-1832)

Misc. Notes
All of the children of James and Nancy were born at Fairfield in Bourbon County. He had no children by his second wife Mary Kerfoot Williams , widow Of Gen. Roger Williams. James died at Fairfield.

JAMES GARRARD, [1] son of Governor James and Elizabeth Mountjoy Garrard, was born in Stafford county, Va., January 31st, 1773. He came when ten years of age with his parents to Kentucky, and was reared at “Mount Lebanon,” their home in Bourbon county. He was a distinguisetd officer in the war of 1812, and participated in the battle of the Thames. In 1817 he was appointed Brigadier General of the Fourth Brigade Kentucky State Militia, by Governor Slaughter.

He was a member of the Kentucky Senate from 1813 to 1817, and it is found from the journal of the Senate of the latter year that he was chairman of the Committee on Propositions and Grievances. He was a Representative in the Lower House of the Legislature in 1808, 1820 and 1830.

In early life he engaged in agricultural pursuits and breeding fine stock, in which he was deeply interested. He, perhaps, contributed by his spirited enterprise as much to the improvement of the breed of Kentucky stock as any other citizen of the State, having made a voyage to England for the purpose of selecting by his own judgment from the best stocks. He was a man of superior business qualifications, sterling integrity and untiring energy, and he accumulated a large estate. His farm adjoined that of his father, and his residence, known as "Fairfield," was situated on the opposite side of Stoner Creek, commanding a view of "Mount Lebanon."

On December 18th, 1793, he married in Fayette county Nancy Lewis, eldest child of Thomas Lewis, who emigrated from Fairfax county, Va., to Kentucky in 1785. He was the only son of Stephen Lewis and Elizabeth Offutt, of Fairfax county, Va., who were both of Maryland families. He was born May 8th, 1749, and died in Kentucky in September, 1809. Mrs. Garrard's mother was Elizabeth Payne, daughter of Edward Payne and Anne Horden Conyers, of Fairfax county, Va. She married Thomas Lewis, October 27th, 1773, and died March 24th, 1827.

Mrs. Garrard was named for her grandmother, Anne Conyers Payne, but from some fancy she was always called Nancy, which name has been given to many of her descendants. She was born in Fairfax county, Va., August 18th, 1774. She was gentle and lovely in character, and her death on November 17th, 1835, left her home desolate. Gen. Garrard feeling acutely the loneliness of his home, married secondly, in 1837, Mrs. Mary Kerfoot Williams, widow of Gen. Roger Williams, a Revolutionary officer. From this marriage there were no children. He died after a few days of illness at "Fairfield," September 1st, 1838.


Spouses
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1: Nancy LEWIS
Birth: August 18, 1774 Fairfax County, Virginia
Death: November 17, 1835 Bourbon County, Kentucky Age: 61
Father: Thomas LEWIS (1749-1809)
Mother: Elizabeth PAYNE (-1827)
Marriage: December 10, 1793
Children: Thomas Lewis (1794-1863)
James (1796-1858)
Stephen Lewis (1798-1840)
Massena (1800-1850)
Jeptha Dudley (1802-1837)
Elizabeth Lewis (1808-1873)
Edward (1808-1826)
Sarah Lewis (1810-1881)
Charles Todd (1812-1873)
Ann Maria (1814-1872)
Margaret Talbot (1817-1863)
Mary (1819-1829)

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2: Mary “Polly” KERFOOT
Birth: 1772
Death: 1841 Age: 69
Father: George KERFOOT (1746-1778)
Mother: Margaret “Peggy”

Misc. Notes
MRS. ROGER WILLIAMS [2]
(Mary Kerfoot)
(1772-1841)

To the Shenandoah valley, a few miles north of the white sign post erected by Lord Fairfax to guide friends to his bachelor establishment at "Greenway Court," came William Kerfoot, late of Ireland, to establish a plantation on the Opequon in 1763. Here he built a log house, cleverly insulated with tree bark behind the wooden panels which lined it. Here he lived until 1779, surviving his wife, Margaret, several years. Their oldest son, George, born 1746, was the father of our subject.

When a large tract of land in that section was granted to Robert Borden, a Baptist from New Jersey, it opened up the area to Protestants, Quakers and other denominations previously rare in Virginia. Mary Kerfoot's sister, Elizabeth, wrote hymns and published a collection used in the Bethel Baptist Church service. Her brother, John, burned the brick for the church walls in 1809 while making brick for "Providence," his home, which still stands near White Post.

Marrying, probably on the eve of their removal to Kentucky, Roger and Mary Kerfoot Williams must have kept some contact with their Virginia home by visiting, for in 1811 Margaret, her seventeen-year-old niece, was married in Bourbon County to their neighbor, Solomon, son of Jacob Spears. Margaret's brother's name, John Bradford Kerfoot, suggests a possible connection with the artist.

Oil on canvas 28” X 22". By Alexander Bradford, June 1824
Owner: Mrs. Frederick A. Wallis (Nannine Clay), Paris
May print and data from the owner

Marriage: September 1, 1836


Sources
1. Anne Russell de Cognets, Governor Garrard of Kentucky, His Descendants, Lexington, Kentucky: James M. Byrnes, 1898, 19-20.
2. Whitley, Edna Talbott. Kentucky Ante-Bellum Portraiture, (The National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1956), pp. 56-57

(3) Name: Jeptha Dudley GARRARD
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Birth: December 5, 1802 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: January 26, 1837 Cincinnati, Ohio Age: 34
Father: James Douglas GARRARD Jr. (1773-1838)
Mother: Nancy LEWIS (1774-1835)

Misc. Notes
Notes on Jeptha Dudley Garrard: [1]
JEPTHA DUDLEY GARRARD was born at "Fairfield," Bourbon county, Ky., December 5th, 18o2. He received his education at Transylvania University, at Lexington, Ky. After completing the study of law he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he entered upon the practice of his profession. His untimely death occurred at his residence in that city, January 26th, 1837, at the early age of thirty-four years. The editor of the Cincinnati Gazette, in its issue of that date, says of him :

"Mr. Garrard is called off in the prime of life, in the midst of usefulness. It is not for the editor of the Gazette to pronounce his eulogium. He may be misled by feelings of private friendship. But he feels at liberty to say that Mr. Garrard was one among our most useful, most valuable citizens. His public spirit, his individual activity, his private charities were extensive, active, energetic-felt, not seen; practiced, not proclaimed-extended to every department of usefulness : city enterprise, county improvement, religion, politics, political economy. Few men in our community were more valued by the friends that knew them; few could be called from us who will be more missed-and most of all, missed by the poor and needy. Even now not a few hearths are cold and comfortless, wbich would have been far otherwise bad not death called Jeptha D. Garrard to his last account."

In 1824 Mr. Garrard married Sarah Bella Ludlow. She was a daughter of Israel Ludlow, one of the early founders and proprietors of Cincinnati., and was born at Ludlow Station in 1802. Her mother was Charlotte Chambers, daughter of Gen. James Chambers, who was Colonel of the First Pennsylvania Regiment, war of the Revolution, and a member of the Society of Cincinnati. She was highly endowed with beauty and intellect, and was a brilliant 'Woman in all respects. Ten years after the death of Mr. Garrard she married judge John McLean, justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. They resided in Cincinnati until Judge McLean's death in 1861, after which she lived much with her children. She died in Cincinnati, January 12th, 1882, aged eighty years.


Spouses
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1: Sarah Bella LUDLOW
Marriage: 1824


Sources
1. Anne Russell de Cognets, Governor Garrard of Kentucky, His Descendants, Lexington, Kentucky: James M. Byrnes, 1898, 29.

(4) Name: Stephen Lewis GARRARD
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Birth: July 15, 1798 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: December 3, 1840 Harrison County, Kentucky Age: 42
Father: James Douglas GARRARD Jr. (1773-1838)
Mother: Nancy LEWIS (1774-1835)

Misc. Notes
The Western Citizen, Wed 20 Sep 1816--Marriages: On Thursday evening by the Rev. A. Eastin, Stephen Garrard to Maria Neal, daughter of John Neal, all of Bourbon County.


Spouses
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1: Mary NEAL
Father: John NEAL
Marriage: September 14, 1816 Bourbon County, Kentucky

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2: Elizabeth NEAL
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(5) Name: Captain William GARRARD
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Birth: April 20, 1771 Stafford County, Virginia
Death: December 30, 1838 Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky Age: 67
Death Memo: On a farm near Paris.
Occupation: Surveyor; Bourbon County Representative To Kentucky Legislature, 1795-1800, 1822
Father: Governor James GARRARD (1748-1822)
Mother: Elizabeth MOUNTJOY (1751-1832)

Misc. Notes
William Garrard married Susan Peers. They lived at Woodlawn which adjoins Mount Lebanon. Woodlawn was in the family of Gov. Garrard's oldest son for years and said to be one of the most charming and best preserved homes in Bourbon County.

WILLIAM GARRARD, [1] eldest child of Gov. James and Elizabeth Mountjoy Garrard, was born in Stafford county, Virginia, April 20th, 1771. He was twelve years of age when his parents removed to Bourbon county, Kentucky, where he was reared and educated. He was for many years clerk of the Bourbon County Court, and was a Representative in the Kentucky Legislature in the years 1793, '96, '97, 198, 199, 1800 and 1822.

In the war of 1812 be was captain of a troop of volunteer state dragoons, of Major James V. Ball's squadron, in the service of the United States. Upon the original muster. roll, which is certified as being "correct," it is found under the head of "remarks" that he and a number of his company were "frost- bitten" while in that service.

He lived for many years in Paris, and in 1826 removed to his farm adjoining "Garrard's Station" or farm, his father's fort or residence, known as "Mount Lebanon," built in 1785 or '86, where he lived until his death, which occurred on Sunday, December 30th, 1838.

On January 20th, 1818, he married Susan Dalrymple Peers, daughter of Major Valentine Peers, an officer of the Revolution, and Eleanor Orr, his wife. She was born at Waterside, Loudoun county, Va., September 7th, 1794. She died at her home near Paris, Ky., March 8th, 1838.


Spouses
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1: Susan Elizabeth PEERS
Birth: September 7, 1794 Loudon County, Virginia
Death: March 7, 1838 Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky Age: 43
Father: Major Valentine PEERS (1756-1830)
Mother: Eleanor ORR (1772-1817)
Marriage: January 20, 1818 Kentucky
Children: William Mountjoy (1818-1892)
Eleanor Orr (1821-)
Elizabeth (1829-)


Sources
1. Anne Russell de Cognets, Governor Garrard of Kentucky, His Descendants, Lexington, Kentucky: James M. Byrnes, 1898, 16.

(6) Name: William Mountjoy GARRARD
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Birth: 1818 Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: 1892 Hot Springs, Arkansas Age: 74
Education: Rev. Ben O. Perr’s Electic Institute, Lexington, Kentucky; Centre College, Danville, KY; Transylvania University, Lexington, KY (M.D.)
Occupation: Physician
Father: Captain William GARRARD (1771-1838)
Mother: Susan Elizabeth PEERS (1794-1838)

Misc. Notes
William Mountjoy Garrard was educated at his uncle's [Rev. Benjamin O. Peers] Eclectic Institute, Lexington, Centre College, and in medicine at Transylvania University. He practiced his profession at Paris until 1865, and then went to Lawrenceville, Ill., Where he practiced medicine until his acceptance of the position of receiver of public accounts for the territory of Wyoming, under Cleveland's first administration, which office he held four years, being located at Cheyenne. He died at Hot Springs, Ark., In 1892, aged seventy-four years. (Governor Garrard of Kentucky by Anna Descognets pp. 16-17)


Spouses
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1: Matilda Ann COBURN
Birth: Maysville, Kentucky
Death: 1879
Father: Dr. Wilson COBURN
Marriage: November 25, 1847 Maysville, Kentucky
Children: Wilson Coburn (1848-)
William Mountjoy (1850-1881)
Bessie (~1850-)
Nannie Coburn (1852-)
Susan Peers (1854-)
Bettie (~1856-)
Matilda (~1860-)