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From: "Tony Welder" <>
Subject: [KYBREATH-L] Fw: dickey diary - combs, clemons
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 18:50:59 -0700


Forward from another list, names Breathitt Co. residents.
Kathy....>>>>
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>To:
> Subject: [VALEE-L] dickey diary - combs, clemons
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> deposition of william m. combs. jackson ky, jul 19 1898
>
> henry combs was my grandfather. he maried rachel clemons before he came
to
> ky. they had children as follows: mathew, my father, henry, george,
james,
> stephen, and frank; bettie, polly and winnie married john miller;
polly,
> downey stacey; my grandfather moved to indiana about 1837 or 1838. he
> visited ky about 1848. he reared a large family by his second wife,
phoeme
> (phoebe) francis. george died in perry on troublesome. his descendants
are
> still there. henry married nancy brown on new river, nc and reared a
family
> on big creek, perry county. frank married bettie oliver first, second
polly
> couch. lived and died in perry. stephen lived and died in breathitt. my
> father married frankie brown on new river, (sister to my aunt nancy brown
(who
> mas married to henry combs) his children were aaron, alfred, mathew,
henry,
> richard, isaac b., william m., nathan, rachel. aaron married ruth
dickerson;
> alfred, peggy noble; mathew, sallie williams; henry, temple davis;
richard,
> polly back; isaac b., louvisa miniver (?) william m., jane combs;
daughter
> of washingrton and granddaughter of mason combs, one of the original
combses;
> nathan married miss clive of arkansas and is still living there. rachel
> married isaac back. alfred and henry lived and died on troublesome,
breathitt
> co. aaron and mathew lived and died in missouri; richard in
montgomery co
> ky, j.b. in wolfe co ky, rachel on quicksand, breathitt co., ky
>

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