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OLINTHUS M. GARRETT was born June 22, 1842, in Hardin County, Ky.; was taken in infancy by his parents to McCracken County, where he grew to manhood, and in 1876 came to Ballard County, where he now resides. His father, Elder Thomas L. Garrett, a native of Prince Edward County, Va., died in 1856, aged fifty four years. His wife was Keturah B. Smith, of Virginia; she died in 1857, aged fifty-two years, and their offspring are Ann J. (Cook), James R., Leander S., Carrie B. (Mahony), Marietta H. (Cooksey), Alfonsa K., Rockwood G., subject, Thomas L., Jr., and Keturah (Green). On March 14, 1867, subject was married to Miss Florence, daughter of Capt. Robert and Elizabeth (Pell), McConnell, of Paducah, born in 1850, died in 1874, and from this union sprang Horace (deceased), Maxwell and Lida. Subject was next married October 25, 1876, to Mrs. Mary E. Rutherford, daughter of Thompson D. and Elizabeth Williams, of Christian County, and to them have been born Carrie L., Harry, Olinthus M., Jr., and James R. Mrs. Garrett’s children by her first husband are Eddie M. and Joseph T. Mr. Garrett was for twenty years a mason and brickmaker, and is now a farmer, owning 160 acres of good land in a high state of cultivation. He is a member of the Christian Church, also of the K. of H., and a Democrat.