1850 Union Co, AR census

Ed Dorado Twp

p. 231B, Oct 6, 1850

102/102 Charles B CUMMINGS 33, m, Planter, RE=$1000, b TN
Sarah J 19, f, b KY
Livinia H, 3, b MISS

103/103 Elizabeth CUMMINS 50, f, b TN
Rebecca B, 12, f, b TN
Jno B W, 18, m, Planter, b TN
Alexander P, 17, m, b TN
Mary A, 14, m, b TN
Margaret 12, m, b TN
George W, 10, m, b TN
C A Combs, 40, m, Wheelright, b KY
Caroline, 27, f, b TN
James T, 9, m, b TN

(Source: Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Census El Dorado, Union, Arkansas; Roll: M432_30; Page: 231)

Notes: Elizabeth CUMMINS was the mother of Caroline RUSHIN Traylor Combs. Her maiden name is unknown at this time and the given name of her first husband is also unknown. She remarried to a Mr. CUMMINGS and had several children by him. Her daughter Rebecca D CUMMINGS married William D RESTER (see marriage record below), and they may be the same who are enumerated next to C A Combs & Caroline in the 1860 Rapides Co, LA census. By 1870, there are two young Rester children living with Elizabeth suggesting their mother, and possibly their father, was deceased.

Notes: Charles Allen Combs (ancestry unknown), and his second wife Caroline RUSHIN Traylor. All of the family information below is courtesy of a Combs Researcher, who is the great-granddaughter of Richard Penn Combs, also states her grandaunt Sarah Elizabeth Combs aka Aunt Sadie recorded all of her family information in a Family Ledger. The result is a wonderful record of a large family that includes information about deceased members that would have been very difficult to document. See Charles Allen Combs Family Report.

Charles Allen Combes (b 28 Nov. 1811 in Kentucky, died 20 Jan. 1880) and his second wife Caroline RUSHIN Traylor are buried in the Cummings Cemetery off the South Field Road, Union County, Arkansas. It is an old family cemetery in El Dorado. Sarah Elizabeth Combs aka Aunt Sadie (never married), descendant of Charles and Caroline, recorded all her family information in a Family Ledger. Charles first married Rebecca TRAYLOR on 21 January 1839 at the age of 28. Rebecca was born in November or December 1815, and she died in childbirth with her fourth child in 1847 (per Family Ledger). The Ledger does not state where this marriage took place but their children were born in Tennessee. Charles then married Caroline RUSHIN Traylor on 27 January 1848 in Fayette County Tennessee (also documented by Fayette Co. marriage records). By 1850 Charles and Caroline were in Union Co, AR. They are next found in Alexandria, LA, in the 1860 Rapides Parish, Lousiana census. Around 1863 they return to Union Co, Arkansas where they lived until they died.

Charles and Rebecca had four children:
Thomas J Combs born 14 Dec. 1839, died 6 Sept. 1846
James C Combs born 30 Sept. 1841, died after 1860
Grace A Combs born 28 Dec. 1843, died 8 July 1848
Rebecca B T Combs born 17 Dec 1847, died 27 July 1848

Charles and Rebecca's son James C Combs was their only child to survive childhood; however, he (J C Combs) served in the Confederate Army (Louisiana's 16th Regiment Company G (from Rapides)) in the Civil War and no further information is known about him.

Caroline Jane RUSHIN (or Rushen or Rushing) was born 25 July 1825 in Tennessee, the d/o of Elizabeth H and a Mr. RUSHIN. She first married John P TRAYLOR, a brother to Rebecca TRAYLOR. Caroline and John had two children, John A and Mathew, both of whom died in August of 1848. Her husband John P Traylor died 26 Aug. 1847, just shortly before his sister Rebecca died. Charles and Caroline quickly remarried each other and started their own family. Caroline died 11 Feb. 1879 at the age of 53.

In 1850, Charles aka C A Combs is living with his mother-in-law Elizabeth UNKNOWN RUSHIN CUMMINGS, the widow of John CUMMINGS, and the mother of his wife Caroline RUSHIN Traylor. In 1860, Elizabeth Cummings (age 55) is found living with John W Cummings in Union Co while her daughter and son-in-law are found in Rapides Parish, LA.

Charles Allen Combs and Caroline RUSHIN Traylor had nine children:
Martha Emmaline Combs
George Washington Combs
William Harrison Combs
Sarah Elizabeth Combs
Pauline Ann Combs
Joseph Edward Combs
Richard Penn Combs (twin)
Rachel Francis Combs (twin)
Robert B Lee Combs

1870 Union Co, AR Census

El Dorado Twp

p. 508/44, July 13, 1870

324/324 Combs C A, 60, m, w, Farmer, RE=$400/PP=$800, b Kentucky
Caroline 44, f, w, Kg House, b TN
George 19, m, w, At Home, b AR
William 18, m, w, b AR
Elizabeth 16, f, w, b AR
Pauline 13, f, w, b AR
Joseph 12, m, w, b AR
Richard 6, m, w, b AR
Francis 6, f, w, b AR
Lee 2, f, w, b AR

(Source: Original census images, Heritage Quest)

Notes: Living next to George CUMMINGS (age 35). Elizabeth CUMMINGS (age 70) in hh of John W CUMMINGS on p. 497/22.