BIO: WILLIAM CORNETT – Leslie County
\nLeslie County, Kentucky
\nFrom: D. M. Parsons <dyyanne@yahoo.com>
\nDate: Sat. June 23, 2001
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\nDr. John J. Dickey Diary, Fleming County, Ky. Recorded in the 1870’s and beyond.
\nReprinted in Kentucky Explorer, Volume 12, No 4 September, 1997, p. 88.
\nBy permission. Leslie County.<\/p>\n
WILLIAM CORNETT (Coon Creek, Leslie County, Kentucky, January 17, 1898.) I was born
\nin Perry County, Kentucky, February 3, 1814, on Leatherwood Creek. My father’s name was
\nArcibald Cornett. He was born in East Tennessee on either Little or Big Moccasin. His
\nfather’s name was James Cornett who came to Perry County, Kentucky, when my father was a
\nboy 7 to 10 years old. My father was 84 years old when he died in 1873. This would make the
\ncoming of the Cornetts to Kentucky from 1796 to 1799. My grandfather was married twice,
\nonce to a Gilliam, once an Everedge. He had children as follows: Nathaniel, Samuel, Roger,
\nArchibald, William, John, Robert, Lucy (Woolery Eversole), Elizabeth (Campbell),
\nand Nancy (Samuel Combs). I have been married three times; first, Nancy Mainyard; second,
\nRebecca Morgan; third, Malinda Garrison. Most of these families were large. There were eight
\nin my father’s family and they all lived to have grandchildren. I was the oldest and only
\none living.<\/p>\n
Bear Hunting. I believe I have killed 30 bears in my life and from 500 to 1,000 deer. I
\nkilled 21 in one season at a lick and never missed a shot. My father-in-law said he killed
\n705 in five yers. He kept a tally on his gunstock. He sold the hams and the hides and said
\nhe made more money than at anything else he ever did. Wild turkeys were abundant. There
\nare a good man in this country yet.<\/p>\n
School Teachers. Old Frederic, Lewis was the first teacher I ever went to school to.
\nBrashears – Old David Fee is the best teacher I ever went to. Brashears was next.<\/p>\n
Preachers. Old Robert Hicks was the first preacher I remember. He was a Baptist. My father
\nand mother were members of the Baptist church. My grandfather, Lewis (Gillam?) [sic], was
\nnot a member of the church but his wife was.<\/p>\n
Mills. We had hand mills when I was a boy, also pound mills run by a sweep and later pound
\nmills run by water power. Stories are told of mice, rats, and many things getting pounded
\nup with the meal. One story is told of a cow who learned to take out a mouthful while the
\npretle was lifted. We used graters when corn was soft.<\/p>\n
Revolutionary Soldiers. My great-grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier. I do not know
\nwhether he was a private or an officer or what regiment he was in.<\/p>\n
War of 1812. My grandfather was in the War of 1812. He was in the Horse Shoe Battle and in
\nthe Battle of New Orleans. Robert Cornett married Charlotte Callahan. Roger married
\nZilpah Callahan. Robert lived in Benge. His son, Isaac, moved to Madison county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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