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	Nimrod Combs alias LUTTRELL(ca 1771-1781) Husband of Betsy Kenner Markham & Son of John Combs, Jr.

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Nimrod Combs ALIAS Luttrell, b. abt 1771, before the presumed marriage of his parents in about 1773-1777. His father John Combs Jr. died 1780, will recorded in Fauquier Co, VA, names Nimrod as his son.

Compiled and submitted by Natalie McClendon.

12 Nov 1791, Fauquier Co, VA

Nimrod Combs marries Betsy Kenner Markham, bondsman Robt. Luttrell. Betsy was d/o Capt. James Markham, per 1832 Mason Co, KY court records.

1799 Fauquier Co, VA poll list:

Nimrod Combs

1810 US Census, Kanawha Co, VA (WV)

Charleston, p. 201
Combs, Nimrod, 0-2-1-1-0: 1-0-0-1-0: 0: 0
(2 boys b. 1795-1800, 1 boy b. 1785-1795, 1 man b. 1765-1784; 1 girl b. aft 1800, 1 woman b. 1765-1784)

1820 Census

Nimrod not yet found. John Combs appears in the Barren Co, KY census.

bef 1825: Nimrod Combs married 2nd? to whom?

1830 US Census, Fauquier Co, VA

p. 407:
line 14: Sarah Combs, 1 f 15-20; 1 f 60-70.
line 19: Margaret Combs, 1 m 50-60; 1 f 15-20; 1 f 70-80.
line 23: Sarah Combs, f 70-80.
line 24: Nimrod Combs, 1 m 50-60; 2 f <5; 1 f 30-40. [Nimrod b. 1770-1780]
line 25: John Cooper, M:1@40-50; 1@50-60; F: 1@15-20; 1@ 30-40; 1@ 40-50.

[John cooper is listed here because Sarah Luttrell Combs' will in 1833 mentions a daughter Sally Cooper]

1832 Mason Co, KY, court records lists children of Capt James Markam, all but one deceased. This would include Nimord's wife Betsy Markham.

1833 Fauquier Co, VA: Sarah Luttrell Combs dies, mentions Nimrod's three children by his last wife.

[This second marriage not yet found]

1840 US Census, Stafford Co, VA,

p. 32
line 5: Nimrod Combs, M: 1@ 10-15; 1@ 60-70; F: 3<5; 1@ 5-10; 1@10-15; 1@30-40

1912/12/26 KY Death Cert of Ennis Combs; cert# 33441white male married; age 70 [b ca 1842] died 26 Dec 1912 Montgomery Co., Ky of ?nephant----s/o Nimrod Combs b Ky & don't know of Ky; informant Richard TREADWAY of Mt. Sterling, Ky; buried private burial ground 28 Dec 1919; undertaker Eastin & Harris of Mt. Sterling, Ky

There are no other Nimrods in the records known at this time, so this Ennis Combs is possibly one of his children by the "last wife" mentioned in Sarah Luttrell Combs' will. If this is the same Nimrod, and this death record is correct that Ennis Combs was born in KY in 1842, then perhaps Nimrod's widow would be found in KY in 1850.

The above records are all that are available on the Combs Etc website and readily findable census records on Ancestry.com.

Siblings of Nimrod Combs, as mentioned in his father's (1790) and mother's (1833) wills were:

According to Col. Brooke Payne's "Paynes of Virginia,"

Benj. PAYNE married (1) Susannah ROUSSEAU; and (2) Helen Combs, by whom he had 5 children: Elizabeth PAYNE who married her cousin James Combs 21 Dec 1819 Fauquier Co., Va; Jane PAYNE who married Silas BRYANT 19 July 1825 Fauquier Co.; Betty PAYNE who m. Elijah THORNBERRY; and William PAYNE. Benjamin Payne's first wife was Susannah Rousseau, d/o William Rousseau, and sister-in-law of Ennis Combs.

Sarah Luttrell Combs' will witnessed by David W. Combs, identified as s/o William Rousseau Combs and Sarah Wickliffe, who would be her great nephew.

Siblings of Betsy Kenner Markham, w/o Nimrod Combs, were named in the 1832 Mason Co, KY court records as:
Mary Ann Seal Markham, m. William Barker, resided Mason Co, KY in 1832;
Anna M. Markham, m. George Goode
James L. Markham

A William Barker appears in the 1810 Census, Fauquier Co, VA. A George Goode and a James Markham appear in the 1810 Census, Botetourt Co, VA.

NM-Notes: The 1810 census shows that Nimrod crossed the mountains by 1810. How long he stayed or how far west he went is not known, but he shows back up in Fauquier Co, VA by 1830. My ancestor, John L. Combs was born in VA in 1794, and a presumed brother Benjamin b. 1796. John L. Combs appears in the tax records of Barren Co, KY for the first time in 1817, owning 100 acres in the Little Barren watercourse. He would have been just barely 21 yo. How he came in possession of this land is not yet known; Combs &c. Barren County, KY page does not list a deed record, but others are listed in this time period. In an adjacent property lived Cuthbert Harding and wife Millie McInteer, both from Stafford Co, VA, and Joseph Reed/Read, probably from Stafford Co, VA and likely related to John L. Combs' wife's mother, Philadelphia Read, of Stafford Co, VA. The births of John L. Combs and brother Benjamin fit with those of the boys in Nimrod's household in 1810. John used the middle intital "L" consistently in census and official documents. No record has been found spelling out what it stands for.

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