The Shipley-Cornett Family:Sources
The Shipley-Cornett Family:
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2. Caner Patton Cornett, "Cam Hurstle Cornett and Otta Fedocia Lewis," 6, Contributed heavily to the Harlan Methodist church in memory of his wife, Ella.Gave the church $1,200.00 annually until his death and then gave ten percen tof his estate in his will to the World Service of the Methodist Church.
3. rootsweb.com.
4. Lee County Historial and Genealogical Society, Inc., Bicentennial History of Lee County, Virginia 1792-1992,(1992), Ida Cornett attended Berea College (completed one term) and was in school at Cumberland College, Williamsburg, Kentucky, where she met John Patton Kelly.they moved to Pennington Gap, where they remained for the rest of their lives..
5. www.deltaboogie.com/deltamusicians/hawkinsr/, The Cornetts are descendants of King Canute I of England, Sweden, and Norway.Seven Canute brothes came to Grayson County, Virginia, in 1740 and later changed their name to Cornett.Our branch of the family is from John cornett II (1828-1904), grandson of William Cornett (1761-1836), a Revolutionary War Soldier.
6. Caner Patton Cornett, "Cam Hurstle Cornett and Otta Fedocia Lewis," 4, John Cornett's son Samuel settled in harlan County in the Dione, Totz area..
7. J. D. Cornett, Genealogy of William Cornett, http://www.geocities.com/athens/oracle/5468/jdcornett.html?200613, He was enlisted in the Revolutionary War and served six month in Capt. Anthony Winston's Company, Col. Scripps Va. Regiment.In 1780 he re-enlisted as a private, and services six months in Capt. Saunders Co. Col. Pattersons Va. Regiment.he was allowed a pension on his application executed August 12, 1833.
8. Caner Patton Cornett, "Cam Hurstle Cornett and Otta Fedocia Lewis," 5, Lived on the Cam and Otta farm.The old homeplace was near the Cam and Otta Cornett Memorial Cemetery.The cemetery is now what was once a part of their yard.The railroad came through about 1911 and the old house was moved on the hill near Lonzo and Hazel Cornett's present Home.The old home is still standing in 1987, but is in a bad state of repair..
9. Caner Patton Cornett, "Cam Hurstle Cornett and Otta Fedocia Lewis," 6, William W. Cornett and Mary Jane Wynn were well known in the Cumberland area and throughout the Poor Fork River area.They owned and operated the first general merchandise store in Cumberland.The store was located about where the Doc Fugate home is today.They sold everything from groceries, hardware, dry goods, shoes, lumber, and even handmade caskets.they had the first telephone exchange in Cumberland, even installing and maintaining the telephone lines.They operated the post office for many years.William W. died in Chicago and was said to ahve been the first person in Cumberland buried in a "store bought" casket..
10. City of Akron, Ohio, Death Certificat - Leah,(Reg. District No. 1224, Reg. # 1821), 1821, The death certificate of Julia Futch Shuman had the following information:Died September 15, 1943, at 88 years old, at 456 W. Market Street, where she had lived 9 months.She was a widow.Oliver (sp) was listed as her husband.She was born January 13, 1855 in Pembroke, Georgia.She worked at home.The informant was her daughter, Bessie Williams, 456 W. Market Street, Akron.She was buried 9/18/43 in Savannah, Georgia.She died of cerebral hemorrage, arterio sclerosis, high blood pressure.Her doctor was Dr. F. M. Rankin, M.D., 823 1st Central Tower, from 9/16/43 to 9/18/43.Adams Funeral Home, 791 E. Market, Akron, handled the transfer of her body to Georgia.
11. City of Akron, Ohio, Death Certificate - Oscar,(Reg. District No. 8801, Reg. # 2379), 2379, The death certificate for Oscar Williams lists the following information:Died November 19, 1955 at 8:30 a.m.,at 64 years old, living at 1270 Welch Avenue, Akron, Ohio.His birthdate was September 20, 1891. He lived in Akron for 32 years.His occupation was Plant Protection, Akron Standard Mold.His father was Dahl Williams and mother Leary (sp) Daughtry.SSN 298-01-2368Born inSavannah, Georgia.The informant was Woody Williams.He died of arterioscerotic heart disease w/ myocardial infarction.His doctor was Dr. H. W. Allison from 12/54 to 11/55, 232 Ohio Building, Akron.He was buried on 11/23/55 in Greenlawn Cemetery.Adams Funeral Home took care of the services, at 791 E. Market Street.L.A. Vaughn Funeral Director, Earl S. Hollen, Embalmer..
12. Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia and Adjacent Counties.
13. 1880 United States Census, Lived in Rose Hill, Virginia with son, Edward Shipley.
14. U.S. Cenus, 1900 Census: Bales Forge, Lee, Virginia.
15. Ely Genealogy, page 447, Was a Methodist preacher and a farmer.
16. Ely Genealogy, page 447, Was a local Methodist minister and also engaged in farming.Owned several large tracts of land lying on Sugar Run and in Poor Valley in Lee County at various times, bought and sold land, and was a prosperous farmer..
17. Ely Genealogy, page 537, Was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, Continental Line.
18. Census, 1870 Census White Shoals, Virginia,(Roll: M593-1658, Page 357, Image 716), Farmer in 1870 in White Shoals, Virginia and father, George R. Ely, farmer,lived with Robert and Charlotte and family.
19. Ely Genealogy.
20. Ely Genealogy, Thomas was a young man about 24 years of age when he left England for America, and on shipboard met an Irish girl by the name of Jane Smith who was born in Dublin, Ireland, whom he fell in love with and they were either married aboard ship or shortly after they arrive at the port of entry.
21. Ely Genealogy, page 437, Killed in war of the Revolution.
22. Ebersol, Charles E., The Ebersol Families in America 1727-1937,(unknown publisher), 104, Woolery Lived in Perry County all his life on the old home farm.After his father died, he bought 19 acres in Perry County, August 17, 1815.See Jillson, Land Grants in KY.He father and teacher taught him German in which he became very proficient.
23. Catherine Baillio Futch, The Futch Family, Baton Rouge, LA, 1971.
24. Geiger, Jarrard, Futch, Knaebel, Shuman Family Genealogy and Allied Families.
25. Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia and Adjacent Counties, 182.
26. Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia and Adjacent Counties.
27. U.S. Social Security Death Index.
28. Services were held at Campfield-Hickman Funeral Home, October 3, 1977, with Clergyman Rev. Lester E. Flauhous officiating..
29. Ada Grace Cathron, EarlyEarly Records of Lee County, Virginia,Volume II,(Copyrright 1972), 151, Clint was one year, five months when he died.
30. Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia and Adjacent Counties, 182, His (John Kelly) widow and some of the children returned to Lee Co., Va., and lived at Station Creek on propertynow owned by Bob Frank Crabtree, west of the Dr. J.E.T. Laningham farm.Mrs. Kelly was buried in the Station Creek Methodist Churchyard..
31. Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia and Adjacent Counties, 181, These kellys of Lee County trace their ancestry back to one Benjamin Kelly, who was born in Maryland about 1730, of a Quaker family.He was probably the Revolutionary soldier who was granted land in Ohio on April 22, 1783, for three years of service.He came to Frederick Co., Virginia, and was living in Winchester in 1755.They removed to Botetourt Co., Virginis, by 1782, where he died in 1800, leaving his wife.Mary, two sons and six daughters, as shown by deed in Botetourt County in 1801..
32. Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia and Adjacent Counties, 181, From a Quaker family.
33. Lee County Historial and Genealogical Society, Inc., Bicentennial History of Lee County, Virginia 1792-1992,(1992).
34. Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia and Adjacent Counties, 182.
35. Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia and Adjacent Counties, 181, A.B. from emory and Henry College, 1855; lawyer and judge of Tazewell Co., Va.
36. Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia and Adjacent Counties, 185, M.D., in Big Stone Gap, Va, reared his family there and died there..
37. Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia and Adjacent Counties, 182, John Kelly and his brother vincent at one time were engaged in the manufacture of gunpowder in Lee County..
38. Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia and Adjacent Counties.
39. Lee County Historial and Genealogical Society, Inc., Bicentennial History of Lee County, Virginia 1792-1992,(1992).
40. Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia and Adjacent Counties, 182, Was a teacher in Lee County.CSA in Capt. Joshua Hobb's Co. A, 64 Va Volunteers, Echols Brigade, Ewell's Div. Army of Northn Va., 1861-1865; paroled at Cumberland Gap, April 1866, under Col. H. Y. Dillard.He was held a prisoner nineteen months at Camp Charles, Ohio..
41. Ada Grace Cathron, EarlyEarly Records of Lee County, Virginia,Volume II,(Copyrright 1972), 173, Second Judge of Harlan Co., Kentucky..
42. Canfield, Clifford R., The Rosenbaum, Rosenbalm family of southwest virginia, Frankfurt, Germany - city of publication, 301, Buried in Lovens Cemetery.
43. Ada Grace Cathron, EarlyEarly Records of Lee County, Virginia,Volume II,(Copyrright 1972), 107, This record indicates the marriage between Joseph S. McKnight and Dora Cornett.it is the only record found identifying this marriage..
44. Ely Genealogy.
45. Ely Genealogy, page 447, Buried in the family graveyard on the Ely farm, where they lived near Beech Springs on Chestnut Ridge in Lee County.
46. Canfield, Clifford R., The Rosenbaum, Rosenbalm family of southwest virginia, Frankfurt, Germany - city of publication, 301-302.
47. Canfield, Clifford R., The Rosenbaum, Rosenbalm family of southwest virginia, Frankfurt, Germany - city of publication, 301, Buried at Lovens Cemetery near Rose Hill, virginia.
48. 1880 United States Census.
49. 1880 United States Census, Living in Rose Hill, Virginia; working on a farm.
50. 1880 United States Census.
51. Ada Grace Cathron, EarlyEarly Records of Lee County, Virginia,Volume II,(Copyrright 1972), 151, Clint was one year, five months when he died.
52. Lee County Historial and Genealogical Society, Inc., Bicentennial History of Lee County, Virginia 1792-1992,(1992), 81, Jonathan Haynes granddaughter, Mrs. Cornie Shipley Lovens, taught many years at the Davidson School House, which was name for Superintendent William Davidson..
53. 1860 Grainger Co., Tennessee Census,(Census Data), Farmer in Tennessee.
54. David is believed to have been killed in the Civil War.
55. U.S. Cenus, 1900 Census: Bales Forge, Lee, Virginia.
56. Lee County Historial and Genealogical Society, Inc., Bicentennial History of Lee County, Virginia 1792-1992,(1992), In 1897, Edward Shipley was class leader for Speaks, and John P. Speaks was appointed as a steward in place of Edward Shipley.The Speaks Chapel United Methodist Church, located south of Rose Hill on Road #680, has a rich heritage and history.A marker in the church yard gives 1828 as the date the church was established by Nicholas Speak.The present building was probably built in the early 1900s..
57. U.S. Cenus, 1900 Census: Bales Forge, Lee, Virginia.
58. U.S. Social Security Death Index.
59. Services were held at Campfield-Hickman Funeral Home, October 3, 1977, with Clergyman Rev. Lester E. Flauhous officiating..
60. Ada Grace Cathron, EarlyEarly Records of Lee County, Virginia,Volume II,(Copyrright 1972), 151, Clint was one year, five months when he died.
61. Lee County Historial and Genealogical Society, Inc., Bicentennial History of Lee County, Virginia 1792-1992,(1992), 80, Lee County teachers attending the Normal School, Big Stone Gap. . . Robert Shipley . . .
62. U.S. Social Security Death Index.
63. Services were held at Campfield-Hickman Funeral Home, October 3, 1977, with Clergyman Rev. Lester E. Flauhous officiating..
64. U.S. Cenus, 1900 Census: Bales Forge, Lee, Virginia.
65. 1930 United Stated Federal Census data.
66. Geiger, Jarrard, Futch, Knaebel, Shuman Family Genealogy and Allied Families.
67.Oscar and Bessie lived in the following locations after their move North:1928-1176 Neptune, Akron; 1930 - Hamtragenk City, Michigan; 1933 - 1114 Herberich Avenue; 1934-1939 866 Beardsley; 1940 - 551 Baird; 1943-1948 - 456 W. Market Street; 1950 - 1270 Welsh Avenue, Akron (purchased for $2,800 in 1950 from Bogards, where Bessie lived for years after Oscar's death).
68. Catherine Baillio Futch, The Futch Family, Baton Rouge, LA, 1971.
69. Geiger, Jarrard, Futch, Knaebel, Shuman Family Genealogy and Allied Families.
70. Ely Genealogy, page 437, Killed in war of the Revolution.
71. Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia and Adjacent Counties, 182, A.B. from Emory and Henry College, 1876; member of Virginia Legislature 1926..
72. City of Akron, Ohio, Death Certificat - Leah,(Reg. District No. 1224, Reg. # 1821), 1821, The death certificate of Julia Futch Shuman had the following information:Died September 15, 1943, at 88 years old, at 456 W. Market Street, where she had lived 9 months.She was a widow.Oliver (sp) was listed as her husband.She was born January 13, 1855 in Pembroke, Georgia.She worked at home.The informant was her daughter, Bessie Williams, 456 W. Market Street, Akron.She was buried 9/18/43 in Savannah, Georgia.She died of cerebral hemorrage, arterio sclerosis, high blood pressure.Her doctor was Dr. F. M. Rankin, M.D., 823 1st Central Tower, from 9/16/43 to 9/18/43.Adams Funeral Home, 791 E. Market, Akron, handled the transfer of her body to Georgia.
73. Lee County Historial and Genealogical Society, Inc., Bicentennial History of Lee County, Virginia 1792-1992,(1992), Noah was an educator in New Mexico and was employed in various school systems in the east until moving the family to Albuquerque, New mexico, where he was Assistant Superintendent of Schools..
74. Akron City Directory 1928-1960, Oscar and Bessie lived in the following locations after their move North:1928-1176 Neptune, Akron; 1930 - Hamtragenk City, Michigan; 1933 - 1114 Herberich Avenue; 1934-1939 866 Beardsley; 1940 - 551 Baird; 1943-1948 - 456 W. Market Street; 1950 - 1270 Welsh Avenue, Akron (purchased for $2,800 in 1950 from Bogards, where Bessie lived for years after Oscar's death).
75. City of Akron, Ohio, Death Certificate - Oscar,(Reg. District No. 8801, Reg. # 2379), 2379, The death certificate for Oscar Williams lists the following information:Died November 19, 1955 at 8:30 a.m.,at 64 years old, living at 1270 Welch Avenue, Akron, Ohio.His birthdate was September 20, 1891. He lived in Akron for 32 years.His occupation was Plant Protection, Akron Standard Mold.His father was Dahl Williams and mother Leary (sp) Daughtry.SSN 298-01-2368Born inSavannah, Georgia.The informant was Woody Williams.He died of arterioscerotic heart disease w/ myocardial infarction.His doctor was Dr. H. W. Allison from 12/54 to 11/55, 232 Ohio Building, Akron.He was buried on 11/23/55 in Greenlawn Cemetery.Adams Funeral Home took care of the services, at 791 E. Market Street.L.A. Vaughn Funeral Director, Earl S. Hollen, Embalmer..
76. Caner Patton Cornett, "Cam Hurstle Cornett and Otta Fedocia Lewis," 21, Acles Wynn was of Welch Norman French descent.He was the first Wynn to settle in Harlan Co on Yokum Creek..
77. 1880 United States Census, Farmer in 1880 Census in Kentucky.
78. 1880 United States Census, At Labor worker in 1880.
79. Wm. C. Pendleton, History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia 1748-1920,(W.C. Hill Printing Company, Richmond, Virginia 1920), 430, From his father, William, received "land lying in Burk's Garden".The Burke's Garden Wynnes are the descendants of Minor Wynne.The descendants of Minor and Oliver Wynne are the only Wynns left in Tazewell..
80. Wm. C. Pendleton, History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia 1748-1920,(W.C. Hill Printing Company, Richmond, Virginia 1920), 428-433, Settled at Locust Hill, in Clinch Valley, one and a half miles east of the present town of Tazewell.Built a fort; was a Quaker so took no part in violence against the Indians.Perhaps came from Pennsylvania, possibly by way of the Shenandoah Valley.Buried in Peery Graveyard, immediately adjacent to the spot where is fort stood; is marked by a marble tombstone on which was the following inscription:"William Wynne, Borne August 10th 1829, Died July 8th 1808.".