William Whitley

ID: 235
This file appears in: County Named, 1818

Portrait of William Whitley. Oil on canvas.

Image Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society

This file appears in: County Named, 1818

By Stuart Sanders
Historical Marker #1067 in Williamsburg commemorates Whitley County's namesake, Colonel William Whitley. Arguably one of Kentucky's hardest-fighting settlers, Whitley was born in Virginia in 1749. …