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County of Christian, Kentucky; Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., Chicago and Louisville, 1884. Longview Precinct.

REV. JOSIAH CARNEAL. Among the most prominent and useful men of the southeastern portion of Christian County, Ky., and whose influence for good has been great and enduring, may be mentioned the venerable patriarch whose name appears at the head of this sketch. He was born September 23, 1810, in Caroline County, Va., where he was reared, and at the age of eighteen years removed to Christian County, in this State, to commence the battle of life, in which he has proved successful in an eminent degree. His father, James CARNEAL, was a native of Virginia, and a soldier at Norfolk in the war of 1812. James was the son of Patrick CARNEAL, who was born in Ireland, and died in Virginia about 1835, at the age of ninety-six years. Subject’s mother, Elizabeth Wright, of Caroline County, Va., died in 1813. From the union of her and James CARNEAL, sprang: Thomas, Walker, John, Josiah and Sally (Thacker). In 1831 Josiah was married to Kittie Galbreath, of Christian County, Ky., and to them were born: Henry W., John D., Mary (Harris), Martha (Graham), twin with Walker, Eliz. (Crutchfield) and Robert P. Mr. Carneal’s wife dying in 1849, he next married in 1851, Mrs. Nancy Harris, daughter of William Rice. One child – Josiah, now deceased – was born to this union. In 1858 Mr. Carnel was married to his present wife, who is Miss Lucy J., daughter of Thomas McQuary, of Todd County, Ky., and to them were born: Isaiah T., Victoria R. (Massie), Silas, Wesley, Demetrius, Paul and Fannie. In 1827 Mr. Carneal became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was licensed to exhort in 1850, and became a local preacher in 1856, and has been active in his labors from that time to the present. He has been largely instrumental in establishing the society and building Chapel Hill Church. He commenced active life as a carpenter and builder, which vocation he followed for fifteen years, with success, and is at present engaged in farming, owning 558 acres of valuable lands, in a good state of cultivation, and having distributed about 600 acres to his children. Mr. Carneal’s life has been one of marked success, and he is held in high esteem in the community where he lives.