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Elijah Combs Cornett

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Elijah Combs Cornett

Birth
Perry County, Kentucky, USA
Death
9 Sep 1916 (aged 95)
Perry County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Christopher, Perry County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
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Elijah Combs Cornett was the first child of Robert Bustard Cornett and Louisa Combs Cornett. He married Cynthia Grigsby, daughter of John Grigsby and Martha Patsy Campbell on 1-14-1845 in Perry Co. They were the parents of the following known children:

Virgina 'Jenny Cornett Newberry 1847
Daniel B. Cornett 1848-1931
Celia 'Bink' Cornett Davis 1851-1940
Benjamin Franklin Cornett 1853-1929
William G. Cornett 1855
Nancy Ann Cornett Morgan 1856-1927
Elhanon Cornett 1859-1928
Isabella Cornett Feltner 1861
Mattison 'Matt' Cornett 1867
Elvira Cornett Adkins Bowman 1868
Martha Cornett Singleton Montgomery Baker 1876

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Frederick Enterprise (Frederick, Oklahoma). Wednesday, January 25, 1911. Pg. 7.
Almost a Record Family.
E. C. Carnett of Hazard, Perry county, Kentucky, was born March 8, 1822, and was married to Miss Cynthia Grigsley, June 8, 1844. To them were born eleven children, six girls and five boys. These children are all living, and the father and mother are also living at the ripe ages of eighty-three and eighty-eight. The old pair have sixty-eight grandchildren and seventy-one great-grandchildren, which added to their eleven children, make a grand total of 153 souls in the four generations- Bud Morgan, in the Christian Herald.
Elijah Combs Cornett was the first child of Robert Bustard Cornett and Louisa Combs Cornett. He married Cynthia Grigsby, daughter of John Grigsby and Martha Patsy Campbell on 1-14-1845 in Perry Co. They were the parents of the following known children:

Virgina 'Jenny Cornett Newberry 1847
Daniel B. Cornett 1848-1931
Celia 'Bink' Cornett Davis 1851-1940
Benjamin Franklin Cornett 1853-1929
William G. Cornett 1855
Nancy Ann Cornett Morgan 1856-1927
Elhanon Cornett 1859-1928
Isabella Cornett Feltner 1861
Mattison 'Matt' Cornett 1867
Elvira Cornett Adkins Bowman 1868
Martha Cornett Singleton Montgomery Baker 1876

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Frederick Enterprise (Frederick, Oklahoma). Wednesday, January 25, 1911. Pg. 7.
Almost a Record Family.
E. C. Carnett of Hazard, Perry county, Kentucky, was born March 8, 1822, and was married to Miss Cynthia Grigsley, June 8, 1844. To them were born eleven children, six girls and five boys. These children are all living, and the father and mother are also living at the ripe ages of eighty-three and eighty-eight. The old pair have sixty-eight grandchildren and seventy-one great-grandchildren, which added to their eleven children, make a grand total of 153 souls in the four generations- Bud Morgan, in the Christian Herald.


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