Combs &c. Research Footnotes for
"The Combes Genealogy" by Josiah H. Combs
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Chapter XXII, General Table [Part 3]

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Footnote 1. Page 145. See Combs &c. Research Report for Mason "8" & Jane "Jennie" RICHARDSON Combs and their children.

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Footnote 2. Page 145. See Combs &c. Research Report for Nicholas "8" & Nancy GRIGSBY Combs and their children, it now having been documented that "Danger Nick" was not the s/o Mason & Sarah COMBS, Sr., but "one of the eight" s/o John & Nancy HARDING Combs, Sr. No "Nicholas, Jr. of Owsley" has been located. Nicholas, Jr., s/o Nicholas "8" COMBS, was Nicholas "Bird-Eye" who m his first cousin, Elizabeth "Betts" COMBS, d/o Rev. War John "8" COMBS (see below). Jeremiah, s/o Nicholas "8" COMBS, was not Jeremiah who m Elizabeth, d/o Henry "8" COMBS, but Jeremiah C. "Chunky" COMBS who m Syntha [sic] SUMNER.

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Footnote 3. Page 145. See Combs &c. Research Report for Henry "8" COMBS, h/o (1) Rachel CLEMENTS; (2) Phebe FRANCIS; and possibly (3) Tenah UNKNOWN. See Greene Co, IN where Henry appears to be the same who was alive as late as 1850. He is not believed to have ever been in Johnson Co, IN where a Harrison COMBS is found who was probably s/o Joseph Allen & Nancy RANSDELL Combs, s/o Claytor & Jael RANSDELL (Voorhees) Combs of Mercer Co, KY). Numerous of Henry's children remain unknown, and most are still undocumented. Note that Stephen did not marry a Frances, but Martha "Patsy" FRANCIS; and that neither Downey & Polly COMBS Stacey, nor John & Winnie COMBS Miller, have been located as yet.

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Footnote 4. Pages 145-6. See Combs &c. Research Report for George "8" & Lydia HARRELL Combs. Also note that their daughter, Elizabeth, has been omitted as a child on this page, but on p. 70 is listed as having married Zachariah MORGAN and on page 139 as having married Samuel "Black Sam" COMBS, s/o Nicholas "Bird-Eye" and Elizabeth COMBS Combs (She married both).

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Footnote 5. Page 146. See Combs &c. Research Report for Elijah "8" & Sarah "Sallie" ROARK Combs, Sr. Susan COMBS who m a MATTINGLY still not located, let alone documented????

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Footnote 6. Page 146. See Combs &c. Research Report for William "8" COMBS, Sr.,  whose spouse has still not been documented (Source for Nell CLOUD?). Also seeking source for his having been father of either Margaret who m 1820, Madison Co, KY, James B. HEATHERLY; or Richard, father of William Wallace COMBS who m Mary ARNOLD (when? where?).

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Footnote 7. Page 146. See Combs &c. Research Report for Biram "8" COMBS, Sr. who, like his brother, Henry, is not known to have ever lived in Johnson Co, IN (Biram and Henry were both in Greene Co, IN). Seeking source for Biram, Sr. as father of Biram, Jr. of Perry Co, KY, and Robert COMBS of Wayne Co, KY (Biram, Sr. was not the father of Harrison COMBS of Johnson Co, IN). Also Note: Biram's Research Report includes substantial additional data regarding numerous Biram COMBS, including Biram COMBS, Jr., whose son, John COMBS, may have been a John COMBS-COUCH (records not yet located), but who was not the John COMBS, b ca 1810, TN, who had removed to Madison Co, AR by the early 1830s. The John COMBS, s/o Biram, Jr., who removed to Madison Co, AR did not do so until the 1850s. In 1850, he was in the Perry Co, KY household of Mary Ann "Polly" COMBS Combs, d/o Jeremiah L. "Long" COMBS and widow of Elijah COMBS, Jr., and in 1860, Polly was in John's census household in Madison Co, AR (See also Two Hiram and Mary COMBS of Perry Co, KY and Madison Co, AR).

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Footnote 8. Page 146. Re family of Washington & Sally WHITAKER Combs, seeking documentation of Susan, w/o Samuel NAPIER, having been d/o Washington & Sally WHITAKER Combs (s/o Mason "8" & Jane RICHARDSON Combs). Missing from this list of children is Jefferson COMBS, who was in Washington's 1850 Perry Co, KY household,  m 1860, Perry Co, KY, Minerva, d/o Biram S. & Mariah MESSER Combs (the bridal couple in Washington's 1860 Perry census household, and he was in their 1880 Perry household). No S. J. "Jett" (Stephen Jett?) COMBS, nor any Vina COMBS has been located in records as children of Washington as yet. The J.P. COMBS (not I.P.) who was in Washington's 1870 Perry household was likely the s/o his daughter, Margaret "Peggy" COMBS by John LACEY (oral family tradition) and may have actually been G.P., aka Granville Pearl COMBS, b 1857/8. Margaret m 12 Feb 1862, Perry Co, KY, Carlo COMBS, s/o Tarleton & Elizabeth ISON Combs.

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Footnote 9. Page 147. Re Preston COMBS (s/o Mason "8" & Jane RICHARDSON Combs), he m Nancy STACY, d/o Benjamin & Ann COMBS Stacy, according to Stacy Family Oral Tradition.

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Footnote 10. Pages 148-9. See Combs &c. Research Report for Mason & Matilda WATTS Combs. See also Perry and Breathitt Co, KY Records, and see Page 154 where a Granville COMBS, h/o Margaret AMBUREY [AMBURGEY?] is listed (erroneously?) as the s/o Shade COMBS (b 1812), but no Granville is located in the latter's 1850 Letcher Co, KY census household.

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Footnote 11. Page 149. Re "9 Claiborne [Combs] (son of George 8) and Sarah [ ---]," and "9 Claiborne [Combs] (son of George 8) and Sarah [ ---]," these are the same couple. Clabourne COMBS (s/o George "8" and Lydia HERALD Combs) m ca 1826, his first cousin, Sarah COMBS (d/o RW John "8" COMBS), widow of James HUNDLEY, whom she had married 2 Nov 1810, Lincoln Co, KY, and by whom she had Samuel, Harvey and Thomas, with Harvey always having gone by surname COMBS rather than HUNDLEY.  Neither Uriah, nor "Macey" have been located as yet, and the latter may have been aka "Meecie" whose real given name was Artemisia COMBS. James and John D. were not the children of Claiborne and Sarah "Sallie" COMBS Combs, but the natural children of their daughter, Artemisia (See Owsley Co, KY Records). Uriah has also never been identified (seeking source).

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Footnote 12. Page 150. See Combs &c. Research Report for Jesse & Polly BOLLING Combs, Sr. (s/o Elijah "8" and Sarah ROARK Combs, Sr.), which includes both corrections and questions regarding this family, plus family records for other Combs Families.

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Footnote 13. Page 150. Re Elijah & Mary Ann "Polly" COMBS Combs, Jr., see Combs &c. Research Report for Two Hiram and Mary COMBS of Perry Co, KY and Madison Co, AR, and note that of the children listed in the General Table, John was not Elijah and Polly's son, but the s/o Biram COMBS, Jr. referred to elsewhere in this manuscript as John COMBS-COUCH.

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Footnote 14. Page 150. Re Jackson G. [sic] & Martha "Patsy" CRANK Combs (s/o Elijah & Sarah ROARK Combs, Sr.), note that he was about the same age as a Jackson D. [sic] COMBS who was also in Perry Co, KY, whose ancestry remains unknown, and ditto for his descendants. Seeking source for CRANK as surname of Jackson G.'s wife. See also 1850 Perry Co, KY census where son, Elijah, is listed.

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Footnote 15. Pages 150-151. Re children of Matthew and Frankie BROWN Combs, Sr. (s/o Henry "8" and Rachel CLEMENTS Combs, Sr.), note that Aaron may have gone to Kansas (not researched), but in 1850 was in Gentry Co, MO with wife, Ruth DICKERSON; that Matthew & Sallie WILLIAMS Combs were in Andrew Co, MO by 1850; that Isaac B. was married 1st to Lovisa McINTYRE per the Dickey Diary Interview of Isaac's brother William M. and is listed on the 1860 Morgan Co, KY Census. Rebecca SWANGO was his 2nd wife and found later in Wolfe Co, KY;  that Nathan removed to Fayetteville, Washington Co, AR where his estate records document a number of his nephews and nieces. Matthew COMBS, Sr. and remaining children are found primarily in the records of Breathitt Co, KY and Morgan Co, KY.

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Footnote 16. Page 152. This is not Nathan COMBS, s/o Matthew and Frankie BROWN Combs, Sr. Their son, Nathan, removed to Fayetteville, Washington Co, AR  where he married 7 Jun 1854, Elizabeth CLINE, d/o George and Elizabeth CLINE, as is documented by both Dickey Diary Interviews and the records of Washington Co, AR which further document that Nathan and Elizabeth had only one child, Isaac G. COMBS who m Martha COWAN, but died s.p. (childless). William M. and Jane COMBS Combs of Breathitt Co, KY had a son Nathan Lee COMBS who married 1st in 1889 Knott Co, KY to Silva COMBS and had amongst their children a Bertha, Susan, James G. Buchanon, Rollin [sic] , and  a Montgomery. There is a strong possibility that this is the same family. See Wolfe Co, KY Records.

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Footnote 17. Page 152. Re Jeremiah Lorenzo and Sarah "Sallie" KELLY Combs, her surname is documented by the 1918 Knott Co, KY Death Certificate of their son, William Riley COMBS. Of their children listed herein, no "Tilden" COMBS has been located thus far, but missing from this list is Fieldon (Fielding?) COMBS, b 1842-4, KY, who is in their 1850 Perry Co, KY household.   Page 159 lists "Big Tilden" with a son Jack and may be the same who listed on the 1870 Perry Co, KY with wife Minta with a son Jackson, and whose 25 Feb 1914, Jefferson Co, KY death certificate documents him as their son.   Is it possible that the typist of this manuscript mistook the name Fieldon for Tilden (not just here but elsewhere)? Except... still no marriage located for Fieldon to a GODSEY???

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