Manon Cornett  

& Clara Belle Eversole Cornett

(Parents of Juanita Cornett Mainous, Joe Cornett, and Claribel Cornett Kelly)

Audio Files and other related web pages

Click here for Clara Belle Eversole Cornett "slave" statement about General "lige" (Elijah) Combs.


Click here to read an article from the 1930's Hazard Herald on early pioneer families. This article includes references to:

  • "Jesse Combs was elected Clerk of the County at its organization in 1822 and served in that capacity until his death in 1878"
  • "John A. Duff, made out and platted the town"
  • "Along about 1860, when the South seceded and the news traveled in the mountains that war had been declared some of htese old pioneers who had followed Washington through all that seven years of war...."Boys, this is Washington's country. This is our country. We can't divide it, we must go with the North"

Click here to listen to an audio recording (30 minutes) of Clara Belle Eversole Cornett being interviewed in 1964 by Arch Glass Mainous, Jr (her grandson) with Claribel Cornett Kelly (This audio recording is MP3 and is 29MB in size). On this recording is a discussion of:

  • Murder of her father, Joe Eversole by a man named Joe Atkins (authorized, she said, by Fulton French) and a part of the French-Eversole Feud.
  • Murder of her grand-father (Major John Eversole) by John Hunt Morgan's raiders after the Civil war.
  • Murder of her other grand-father (Josiah Combs), also by Joe Atkins (for which he was sentenced)
  • Her family's Comb's history from "John Combs" to "General Lige".
  • Her discussion of a  Democrat Gov. letting out Joe Atkins to murder the GOP Gov. elect of Kentucky in order to invalidate the eletorial process.

Click here to see the Clara Belle Eversole Family Bible (with various birth and death records).


Click here to see the Manon Cornett Biography from the "History of Kentucky" (vol 5) dated 1922.


Click here to see Clara Belle Eversole Cornett's DAR application from 1916 (Boling ancestor).


Click here to see Clara Belle Eversole Cornett's DAR Supplimental Application (Cornett ancestor).

 

Children of Manon and Clara Belle Eversole Cornett in 1916. From left to right is Joseph Cornett (age 8), Juanita Nell Cornett (age 10) & Claribel Cornett (age 5). Taken in Washington DC as a postcard. In 1916, Manon & Clara lived in Washington. 

Manon Cornett and his wife Clara Belle Eversole with their son Joe in the 1920's

 Manon Cornett and his wife Clara Belle and son Joe

Clara in 1918 (left)

Manon in 1950

Claribell and Juanita in 1926 in Miami. Juanita was dating Arch Glass Mainous, Sr. and Claribell came down to Miami, Florida for a visit. Juanita worked at First National Bank of Miami, Florida in the savings department. Her boss was Arch Glass, the supervisor of that department.  

Clara in December of 1955 at Jane Carol Mainous James' wedding (right) to William Frank James, held at the Lexington Country Club

 
Clara Bell Eversole Cornett in 1958 with her great-grandson, William F. James, Jr.