Family Group Sheet


Name Jesse H. Cornett
Birth abt 1795, Virginia
Death Letcher Co., Kentucky
Father Samuel Cornett (1759-1849)
Mother Mary Benham (1774-)
Marriage 12 May 1816, Clay Co., Kentucky
Spouse Nancy Branham Smith
Birth abt 1795, Virginia
Death Letcher Co., Kentucky
Father Isaac Smith
Mother Frankie Childers
Children
1 F Marinda Cornett
Birth abt 1817, Kentucky
2 M William B. Cornett
Birth abt 1819, Kentucky
Death Rowan Co., Kentucky
Spouse Mary "Polly" Amburgey
3 F Eliza Cornett
Birth abt 1820, Kentucky
Spouse James Franklin
4 F Mary "Polly" Cornett
Birth abt 1823, Kentucky
Death 1869, Kentucky
Spouse Wesley Pigman
5 M Davis Cornett
Birth abt 1825/1826, Kentucky
Spouse Becca ("Bexey") Christian
6 F Elizabeth Cornett
Birth abt 1827, Letcher Co., Kentucky
Spouse Humphrey Pigman
7 M Wesley Cornett
Birth abt 1828/1830, Kentucky
Death 28 Dec 1864, Louisville, Jefferson Co., Kentucky
Spouse Ceattie S. Morris
8 F Rachel Cornett
Birth abt 1830, Kentucky
Spouse Jesse Amburgey
9 F Rhoda Cornett
Birth abt 1830, Kentucky
Spouse James Madison Pigman
10 F Nancy Cornett
Birth 1831, Kentucky
Spouse John A. Pigman
11 F Frances ("Frankie") Cornett
Birth abt 1835, Kentucky
Notes for Jesse H. Cornett
Most information on this family, except where other sources are mentioned (marriage records, census, etc.), is from correspondence in 1989 and 1990 with Elaine Winkler, 815 S. 5th St., Ironton, OH 45638, a great-great-granddaughter of Jesse's daughter Elizabeth.
Census
1850 census of Letcher Co., Ky, district 1, p. 155b, records as family #173:
Cornitt, Jesse H., 55, Va; Nancy, 55, Va; Marinda, 17, Ky; Wesley, 22, Ky; Frankie, 15, Va.
Last Modified 12 Jan 2002 Created 30 Jun 2002 by Reunion for Macintosh