Combs &c. Research Footnotes for
"The Combes Genealogy" by Josiah H. Combs
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Chapter IX, The Saga of the "Eight Brothers" (pp. 53-62)
Page 53. 1. See the Combs &c. Research Report documenting the ancestry, marriage and children of John COMBS, Sr., s/o Mason COMBS, Sr., h/o Nancy HARDING and father "of the eight:" RW William; RW and Tory "Danger" Nicholas; RW John of Lincoln; Mason; Biram; Henry; George and Elijah (includes Combs &c. Research Family Research Reports for each).

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Page 56. 2.

Seeking source for Dec 1797 birth date for Washington COMBS.

"Frow" - a variant of Froe: a cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block. Used also in basketmaking.

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Pages 57-58. 3. COMBS were already in Floyd Co, KY by 1804 and Clay Co, KY by 1806 (the year of its formation) based on Floyd land records (Nicholas) and the 1807 Clay Co, KY tax list, which included Elijah, George, Henry, Jeremiah (2), John (2), Mace (Mason), Nicholas and William COMBS. Jeremiah L. COMBS, Sr. and one John COMBS were on the 1810 Floyd list (no earlier Floyd tax lists have been located as yet).

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Pages 60-61. 4.

Desperately [sic] seeking transcriptions or notes of these early interviewees.

The author states that "brother Nicholas" moved away; however, it is now documented that "brother Nicholas" and "Danger Nicholas" were one and the same, and that he not only did not move away, he did not die in the 1830s but in the 1850s instead.

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Page 61. 5.

Jeremiah L. "Long Jerry" COMBS is not a documented son of RW John COMBS of the eight. See both his report and that of John COMBS III.

Although there is apparently an oral family tradition (seeking sources!) that Jeremiah L. married (1) a Nancy; Jeremiah C. "Chunky" COMBS (s/o Danger Nicholas COMBS, Sr., married a Synthia per the Dickey Diary interview of his son, John S. COMBS.

Jeremiah C. "Chunky" COMBS was a nephew of the brothers, not a cousin. Seeking transcription or notes for statements by his son, Harrison H. COMBS.

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