John W. Jared biography : Breckinridge County, Kentucky

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[This biography was found while researching at the West Central Kentucky Family 
Association in Owensboro, Kentucky.  I failed to record the name and page of the book.]
John W. Jarrett was born October 28, 1844, in Breckinridge County. He was a member 
during the late war of Company K, Forty-eighth Kentucky Mounted Infantry, with which 
he served about two years as orderly sergeant. He was with the regiment at Hopkinsville 
and Eddyville, besides being in a number of minor battles and skirmishes. Wilson Jarrett, 
his father, was born August 29, 1810, also in Breckinridge County, where, except two 
years spent in Meade County, he has since resided. 

He was in early life a farmer, after which he engaged for about five years in general 
merchandising, embarking at the end of that time in the hotel business, in which he has 
since engaged. He is the fifth of a family of twelve children born to Joel and Mary 
(Dowell) Jarrett, both of Virginia. The former was born in Bedford County, July 12, 
1785. He was a farmer and a son of John Jarrett, who was born June 25, 1737, and who 
was a wagon-maker and son of Thomas and Martha Jarrett, who were of English descent. 
Wilson Jarrett has twice married; first, September 2, 1833, to Miss Catherine, daughter of 
Nehemiah and Mary (Board) Dowell. From this union sprang eleven children, of whom 
Samuel, William H., John W., Louisa (Smith) and James D. still survive. His second 
marriage was solemnized November 28, 1867, with Catherine, daughter of Steven R. and 
Matilda (Pemberton) Moredock. John W. Jarrett was married, March 5, 1882, to Miss 
Jennie, daughter of Samuel and Catherine (Ackerman) Perrigo. This union has been 
blessed with one son, Grover C. Mr. Jarrett started in life with no capital but a strong pair 
of hands and a good constitution, but has by perseverance succeeded in securing for 
himself and family a comfortable competency. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, 
also of the Baptist Church, and in politics a Democrat.
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