Legend has it that Isaac Nazarre Filiatreau, the first of his surname to settle in Washington County, had been “stolen” as a child and packed off to Kentucky from Quebec. This romantic tale has not been substantiated, but the little that is known about “Nazarre” (or “Nazaire” or Nazarie”) suggests that it is plausible. He told census officials he has born in Canada on March 20, 1809. He told his children that his forbears had crossed the water fron Alsace, France. His 1840 marriage, in Washington County, apparently was the first occasion to warrant the recording of his name.

Excert from From Washington County Bicentennial Book.