JACK CORNETT Student

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: BIOGRAPHY – Students
Series 19: STUDENTS
Jack Cornett, Student, 1950s
Jack Roger Cornett (1942-2021)

175 “Audrey McIntyre, Jack Cornett” with Jack’s son, c. 1964. [creech_columbus_175]

TAGS: Jack Cornett, Jack R. Cornett, Jack Roger Cornett, Community School students, Emily Hill Creech, James Columbus Creech, Red Bird Mission School, Juanita Scearce Cornett, Audrey McIntire (McIntyre), John Cornett

JACK CORNETT Student

Community School Student 1950s

Jack Cornett was a Community School student at Pine Mountain Settlement School in the 1950s. During his school years, he lived with his aunt and uncle, Emily (Hill) Creech and James Columbus Creech. Columbus was the son of Sally (Dixon) Creech and William Creech, who were instrumental in bringing the idea of a mountain settlement school to fruition by their generous donation of land to the School in 1913. As a Community School student, Jack served as a library assistant, according to a 1955-1956 Library Report.

Jack went on to attend Red Bird Mission School, a Christian Mission begun in 1921 by the Evangelical Church in nearby Bell County, Kentucky. On August 10, 1961, he married Juanita Scearce, born 1938 in Harlan, Kentucky. Juanita was one of the older children in the Frank Scearce family which lived at Incline, near the School. She, too, was a student in the Community School and had attended Red Bird. They had at least two children, Phillip Lee Cornett, born in 1962, and Sharon Cornett. Jack worked for a trucking company for many years.

Shown above is an early photograph of Jack Cornett with his son and Jack’s mother, Audrey McIntire (also known as McIntyre). She had attended Pine Mountain Settlement School in 1933-1937 during the boarding school era.

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Jack Roger Cornett was born on December 28, 1942, in Harlan, Kentucky, the son of John and Audrey (McIntire) Cornett. He died on September 24, 2021, at the Southeast Iowa Regional Hospice House, Burlington Iowa, after a prolonged illness. Jack was preceded in death by his two children, as well as Juanita in 2004.

GALLERY: JACK CORNETT Student

[For links to additional pages of photographs of the McIntire, Hill, and Creech families and other relatives, go to JAMES COLUMBUS CREECH Family Collections Guide.]

: 178 “Mac & Jack – Emily (Buster McIntyre & Jack Cornett)” [creech_columbus_178]

: 005 Rural School Near Pine Mt. School.” Creech School. (Front row left) Margo Dodd, Elizabeth Dodd, Helen Hayes. Ralph Cornett behind, and Jack Cornett at rear left. (Second row from back) Kit Rogers, Phyllis Wilder, Vernon Lewis, Charlene Cornett. (Third row) Ola Mae Cornett, Jean Cornett, Thelma Wilder, Steve Hayes, Mable Cornett. [049_FN_other_schools_005]

: Miss Dorothy Nace’s Room, 1949. Geneva Browning, Jack Cornett, Tommy Scearse, Esther Bailey, Ralph Cornett, George Couch, (?)Huff, Sue Jay [53_life_work_children_classes_1720.jpg]

: 281 “Jack Cornett”

: 273 “Mary Hill McIntyre, Audrey McIntyre, Jack Cornett.” [creech_columbus_2_273]

: 275 “Jack Cornett [at Cherokee, NC]”

: 276 “Jack Cornett [at Cherokee, NC]”

: 482 Audrey McIntire Tino, Mary McIntyre, Jack Cornett, Emily Creech. [creech_columbus_4_482]

: 282 “Buster McIntyre, Emily Hill, Jack Cornett [child], Mary Hill.” [creech_columbus_2_282]

: 468 Emily Hill, Audrey McIntyre, Buster McIntyre, Jack Cornett, Columbus. [creech_columbus_4_468]

: 175 “Audrey McIntyre, Jack Cornett” with Jack’s son. [creech_columbus_175]

: 177 “Jack Cornett, Christmas Day 1960” [creech_columbus_177]

: 436 Jack Cornett. [creech_columbus_4_436]

: 466 Juanita Scearce Cornett, Audrey McIntyre, Jack Cornett. [creech_columbus_4_466]

Title	Jack Cornett
Alt. Title	Jack R. Cornett ; Jack Roger Cornett ;
Identifier	https://pinemountainsettlement.net/?page_id=97083
Creator	Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY.
Alt. Creator	Ann Angel Eberhardt ; Helen Hayes Wykle ;
Subject Keyword	Jack Cornett ; Pine Mountain Settlement School ; Jack R. Cornett ; Jack Roger Cornett ; Community School students ; Emily Hill Creech ; James Columbus Creech ; Red Bird Mission School ; Juanita Scearce Cornett ; Audrey McIntire (McIntyre) ; John Cornett ;
Subject LCSH	Cornett, Jack, — 1942 – 2021. Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) — History. Harlan County (Ky.) — History. Education — Kentucky — Harlan County. Rural schools — Kentucky — History. Schools — Appalachian Region, Southern.
Date	2021-10-04 aae
Publisher	Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY.
Contributor	n/a
Type	Collections ; text ; image ;
Format	Original and copies of documents and correspondence in file folders in filing cabinet
Source	Series 09: Biography and Series 19: Students
Language	English
Relation	Is related to: Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections, Series 09: Biography and Series 19: Students
Coverage Temporal	1942 – 2021
Coverage Spatial	Pine Mountain, KY ; Harlan County, KY ; Perry County, KY ; Incline, KY ; Burlington, IA ;
Rights	Any display, publication, or public use must credit the Pine Mountain Settlement School. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Donor	n/a
Description	Core documents, correspondence, writings, and administrative papers of Jack Cornett ; clippings, photographs, books by or about Jack Cornett ;
Acquisition	n/d
Citation	“[Identification of Item],” [Collection Name] [Series Number, if applicable]. Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers. Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY.
Processed By	Helen Hayes Wykle ; Ann Angel Eberhardt ; Last Updated: 2024-02-02 aae ;
	Sources “Jack Cornett,” Columbus and Emily Hill Creech Family Collections. Series 09: Biography and Series 19: Student. Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers. Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY. Internet resource. “Jack Cornett: Obituary.” Lunning Funeral Chapel, Burlington, IA. https://www.lunningfuneralchapel.com/obituaries/Jack-Cornett?obId=22471472 ; accessed 04 October 2021. Internet resource. “Kentucky, Vital Record Indexes, 1911-1999,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKHL-N6C7 : accessed 2021-08-14), Audrey Mcintyre in entry for Jack R Cornett, 28 Dec 1940; citing Birth, Harlan, Kentucky, United States, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort. Internet resource. “Kentucky, Vital Record Indexes, 1911-1999,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKHF-X2CL : accessed 04 October 2021), Juanita Scearce in entry for Phillip Lee Cornett, 1962; citing Birth, Harlan, Kentucky, United States, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort. Internet resource.

See Also:
AUDREY McINTIRE Student – Biography
PEGGY McINTIRE Student – Biography
WATSON “BUSTER” McINTYRE Student – Biography

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