Descendants of John W Cornett
Notes
Birth: 1850 & 1860 Tenn. Census
!OCCUPATION:BLACKSMITH
IN THE 1860 HAWKINS CO., TENN JOHN WAS A CONVIC HIS CRIME WAS MURDERING
1850 CORNETT JOHN Hawkins County TN 318 3rd District Federal Population Schedule TN 1850 Federal Census Index TNS5a377513John W. Cornett - Born abt. 1824. John married a woman named Jane Stapleton(b. 1827 in Hawkins Co. Tenn.). John and Jane along with there daughters Sarah, Martha and Nancy Clemintine are the only Cornett's found in Tenn. in the 1850 Census. They are living in Hawkins Co (there are three famlies of Cornutt's listed and their named are changed to Cornett in the 1860 census). In the 1860 census the children are divided and Jane is not found. John is listed in the 1860 census as a convict and is charged with murdering.
Hawkins Co., TN, in 1850. Age 25. Only Cornett family in TN in 1850.
No wife listed in 1860. May have had twin sons, John & Isacc born in 1856.
Four families named Cornett in TN 1860. Three in Hawkins Co.,one in Ro. Co.
5 June 1860, in jail, in Rogersville, Hawkins Co., TN, for murder.
Name: John W CORNETT
Title: Blacksmith
Sex: M
Birth: 1825 in ,TN
Death: 1860 in Rogersville,Hawkins,TN
Note: Hawkins Co., TN, in 1850. Age 25. Only Cornett family in TN in 1850.
Note: No wife listed in 1860. May have had twin sons, John & Isacc
Note: born in 1856.
Note: Four families named Cornett in TN 1860. Three in Hawkins Co.,
Note: one in Ro. Co.
Note: 5 June 1860, in jail, in Rogersville, Hawkins Co., TN, for murder.could there be a connection between John W and Isaac?
Clay County, Kentucky: CornetSubmitted by: Nell Dwyer
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September 1854
(page 304)
Commonwealth VS Isaac Cornet INDICT
Isaac Cornet being in custody charged with the offense of murder and being
admitted to Bail in the sum of Two thousand dollars. We, Robert Cornett, D.B.
Stivers, W. Chesnut, Lewis Benge, B.F. White, of Clay County and Robert Wilson
of Owsley County hereby undertake that the above named Isaac Cornett shall
appear in the Clay Circuit Court on the first day of the next April term to
answer said charge and shall render himself amenable to the orders and the
process of said court in the prosecution of said charge and if convicted shall
render himself in execution thereof or he fail to perform either of their
conditions that we will pay to the Commonwealth of Kentucky the sum of two
thousand dollars and the cause continued.
(page 305)
S.M. Williams, Isaac Gabbard, Saul Barger, Willis Holcomb, Catharin Robertson,
David Benge, Delpha Benge, Jack Benge?, Saul Chesnut,W. La----?, W. Shelton,
S.W. Bate, W. Willis, Julina Morris, Ada Ball, Jay Robertson, W. Jones, J.J. ?
Ramsey, Elizabeth Jones, Nancy Jones, David Freeman, Patsy Robertson,
acknowledged themselves indebited to the Commonwealth in the sum of $100 each
to be made and levied of their respective good & chattels lands & tenements to
the use of the Commonwealth rendered but to be void upon condition that they
appear here on the first day of the next April term of court as witnesses for
the Commonwealth agt Isaac Cornet and not depart without the leave of the
court.
1860 STAPLETON JANE Hawkins County TN 014 District 2 Federal Population Schedule TN 1860 Federal Census Index TNS5a1629261
1860 CORNETT MARTHA Hawkins County TN 026 District 3 Federal Population Schedule TN 1860 Federal Census Index TNS5a377517
662 649 Doddsen Rolley 56 M
" Tabitha 55 F
Cornett Martha 12 F
Delp Malinda 10 F
Muneyhun John 29 M
1860 CORNETT NANCY Hawkins County TN 025 District 3 Federal Population Schedule TN 1860 Federal Census Index TNS5a377519
655 642 Heard Hiram 23 M
" Matilda 22 F
" John 9-12 M
Cornett Nancy 11 F
I have seen the name spelled both Cornett and Cornet
1860 CORNET JOHN < Hawkins County TN 024 District 3 Federal Population Schedule TN 1860 Federal Census Index TNS5a377485
1870 CORNET JOHN Lee County VA 311 Rocky St.Ation Township Federal Population Schedule VA 1870 Federal Census Index VA087104536