Dr. John J. Dickey Diary, Fleming County, Ky.  Recorded in the 1870's and
beyond.  Reprinted in Kentucky Explorer, Volume 12, No 4  September, 1997,
p. 88. By permission. Leslie County.

WILLIAM CORNETT (Coon Creek, Leslie County, Kentucky, January 17, 1898.)

     I was born in Perry County, Kentucky, February 3, 1814, on
Leatherwood Creek.  My father's name was Arcibald Cornett.  He was born in
East Tennessee on either Little or Big Moccasin.  His father's name was
James Cornett who came to Perry County, Kentucky, when my father was a boy
7 to 10 years old.  My father was 84 years old when he died in 1873.  This
would make the coming of the Cornetts to Kentucky from 1796 to 1799.  My
grandfather was married twice, once to a Gilliam, once an Everedge.  He
had children as follows:  Nathaniel, Samuel, Roger, Archibald, William,
John, Robert, Lucy (Woolery Eversole), Elizabeth (Campbell), and Nancy
(Samuel Combs).  I have been married three times; first, Nancy Mainyard;
second, Rebecca Morgan; third, Malinda Garrison.  Most of these families
were larage.  There were eight in my father's family and they all lived to
have grandchildren.  I was the oldest and only one living.

Bear Hunting
     I believe I have killed 30 bears in my life and from 500 to 1,000
deer.  I killed 21 in one season at a lick and never missed a shot.  My
father-in-law said he killed 705 in five yers.  He kept a tally on his gun
stock.  He sold the hams and the hides and said he made more money than at
anything else he ever did.  Wild turkeys were abundant.  There are a good
man in this country yet.

School Teachers.
     Old Frederic, Lewis was the first teacher I ever went to school to. 
Brashears - Old David Fee is the best teacher I ever went to.  Brashears
was next.

Preachers.
     Old Robert Hicks was the first preacher I remember.  He was a
Baptist.  My father and mother were members of the Baptist church.  My
grandfather, Lewis (Gillam?) [sic], was not a member of the church but his
wife was.

Mills.
     We had hand mills when I was a boy, also pound mills run by a sweep
and later pound mills run by water power.  Stores are told of mice, rats,
and many things getting pounded up with the meal.  One story is told of a
cow who learned to take out a mouthful while the pretle was lifted.  We
used graters when corn was soft.

Revolutionary Soldiers.
     My great-grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier.  I do not know
whether he was a private or an officer or what regiment he was in.

War of 1812.
     My grandfather was in the War of 1812.  He was in the Horse SHoe
Battle and in the Battle of New Orleans.  Robert Cornett married Charlotte
Callahan.  Roger married Zilpah Callahan.  Robert lived in Benge.  His
son, Isaac, moved to Madison county.

Cornett Gilliam Everedge Woolery Eversole Campbell Combs Mainyard Morgan
Garrison Lewis Brashears Fee Hicks Gillam Callahan
=
Perry-KY TN Benge-Clay-KY

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