George Washington Padgett, a farmer, married Mary Jane Amanda Mitchell on 26 December 1853 & they had 11 children. His ninth child was named in honor of his second child who passed away earlier the same year.
George died when his musket accidentally discharged. He had been asleep when his dog treed a raccoon. He went to get the musket and it went off and killed him. He is buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery located on the Ft. Knox Military Base where four generations of the Padgett family are interred.
According to my grandfather Wilbur Anthony Padgett (George Washington Padgett's great-grandson), George Washington Padgett at one time owned a farm comprised of approximately 500 acres along Otter Creek in Hardin and Meade County.
The map I've posted shows many of the farms after they had been subdivided up over time by descendants and various family members.
The Padgett family story is they came to Kentucky from Maryland as part of a large migration of Catholics to settle Kentucky when Maryland became violently anti-Catholic in the late 18th and early 19th Century.
May he rest in peace.
George Washington Padgett, a farmer, married Mary Jane Amanda Mitchell on 26 December 1853 & they had 11 children. His ninth child was named in honor of his second child who passed away earlier the same year.
George died when his musket accidentally discharged. He had been asleep when his dog treed a raccoon. He went to get the musket and it went off and killed him. He is buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery located on the Ft. Knox Military Base where four generations of the Padgett family are interred.
According to my grandfather Wilbur Anthony Padgett (George Washington Padgett's great-grandson), George Washington Padgett at one time owned a farm comprised of approximately 500 acres along Otter Creek in Hardin and Meade County.
The map I've posted shows many of the farms after they had been subdivided up over time by descendants and various family members.
The Padgett family story is they came to Kentucky from Maryland as part of a large migration of Catholics to settle Kentucky when Maryland became violently anti-Catholic in the late 18th and early 19th Century.
May he rest in peace.
Family Members
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Mary Catherine Padgett
1856–1856
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Zachariah Abel Padgett
1857–1870
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William Pius Padgett
1858–1880
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James Thomas Padgett
1860–1930
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Mary Catherine "Molly" Padgett Todd
1861–1913
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George Washington Padgett Jr
1863–1864
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Matilda Rebecca Padgett Streible
1865–1958
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George Sylvester Wheatley Padgett
1868–1916
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Zachariah Abel Padgett
1870–1874
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John Edward Padgett
1872–1917
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Henry Clay Padgett Sr
1874–1944
