Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 19-21.  Christian Co.

ISAAC BURNETT

Isaac Burnett, deceased, was one of the prominent attorneys of western
Kentucky.  A brief sketch of his life and ancestry is as follows:
     Isaac Burnett was born in Trigg county, Kentucky, January 13,
1838, and died in Hopkinsville, Christian county, same state, December
21, 1889.  His father, Dr. Isaac Burnett, was a native of Virginia,
born in Essex county; was married in that state to Martha Garnett,
daughter of General Garnett, of the well known Garnett family of
Virginia; and after his marriage came to Kentucky and settled in
Christian county where he established an extensive practice and became
a prominent factor in the pioneer settlement.  He and his wife had a
family of six children, who grew up to occupy honored and useful
positions in life:  Henry C., who was honored by his constituents with
a membership in the senate of the Confederacy; Robert, a lawyer;
James, a soldier in the Confederate army, was kiilled in battle at
Fort Donelson; Isaac, whose name introduces this sketch; Lucretia,
widow of Judge George Cook; and Jennie, wife of Dr. James Allison, of
Indiana.
     In his native state Isaac Burnett was reared and educated.  He
chose the law for his profession, pursued a course of study in the law
department of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, graduated
in due time and then entered upon the practice of his profession, with
office at Hopkinsville.  He soon gained high standing in the legal
profession, which he maintained up to the time of his death.
     He married, July 3, 1866, Miss Virginia Ritchie Poindexter, a
native of Christian county, and a daughter of Major John Poindexter.
John Poindexter was a Virginian, born in 1793, of French Huguenot
descent; earned his title of major in the war of 1812; in 1831 moved
west to Kentucky and settled in Christian county, where he became the
owner of a large tobacco plantation, fifteen hundred acres in extent,
and he owned slaves to the number of three hundred.  Politically he
was a Democrat, in all public matters he took an active interest, and
few men in his locality were better known or more highly esteemed than
he.  He died at the ripe old age of eight-four years.  His wife was
before marriage Miss Elizabeth Graves, and she, too, was a native of
Virginia.  They were the parents of six daughters and five sons, Mrs.
Burnett being the youngest of the family and the only one now living.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Burnett are two, a son and daughter, John
P., engaged in the manufacture of shoes at Columbus, Ohio, and
Ritchie, wife of Julian B. Adoue, of Louisville, Kentucky.

Burnett Garnett Cook Allison Poindexter Graves
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Trigg-KY Essex-VA TN Franklin-OH Jefferson-KY IN

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