BIO: Combs, Margaret (Lewis) - Leslie, Perry Co., Ky From: D. M. Parsons Date: June 23, 2001 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ Dr. John J. Dickey Diary, Fleming County, Ky. Recorded in the 1870's and beyond. Reprinted in Kentucky Explorer, Vol 10, Number 2, June, 1995. pp. 81-82 By permission. Leslie County. Margaret Combs Lewis Margaret Combs Lewis, Hyden, Ky., May 30, 1898. I was born in Perry County, Kentucky in 1820 or 1822. My father was Nicholas Combs. He was a son of Nicholas Combs, one of the original eight brothers who settled in Perry County from Holston River, Virginia. My grandfather John Combs, my mother's father, was a Revolutionary soldier, I am certain of that. One of his brothers was also a soldier in the Revolutionary War. I think it was Washington. I was nearly grown when my grandfather, Nicholas Combs, died in 1837 or 1838. He settled near where L. D. Combs now lives and there lived and died. My father, Nicholas Combs, told me that when grandfather first came to Perry he went to Carr to get some wheat to sow from old William Cornett. He had no wheat but half a bushel of rye which my grandfather brought home. My grandfather sowed it and when the grain was in the milk they washed it and cooked it, so scarce was bread stuff. My grandfather had only five children, viz. Nicholas, Jeremiah and Semund. Rebecca married a Williams and Licia married a Smith. Granville and Lorenzo Combs are my brothers and still live below Hazard. My mother was Elizabeth Combs, daughter of John Combs and one of the original eight Combs in Perry. He first settled in Lincoln County near Danville and later came to Perry and settled on Carr's Fork. He moved to Owsley County and lived a number of years and then went to Lincoln or Boyle County where two of his daughters lived and there died. These daughters never came to the mountains. They married before their father moved to the mountains. One of them married Joseph Good, two of their sons from about Danville were in Perry once buying cattle. They were prosperous men. Another daughter married James Hundley and they removed to Perry with my grandfather, John Combs. They had two sons, Harry (Henry) Hundley and Samuel Hundley. Harry Hundley mararied a sister of Judge Josiah Combs of Perry. Kenneth Hundley, son of Sam, married Miss Mattingly, sister of Judge Josiah Combs' wife. My grandfather, John Combs, had a daughter named Dicie who married a Spencer and removed to Illinois. This Spencer was related to the Spencers on Grapevine. Another daughter, Margaret died single. My grandfather, John Combs, had sons: Hardin, Benjamin and John, called Jack. Hardin lived and died in Breathitt on Middle Fork at the mouth of Buck Creek. Jack lived in Owsley on Cow Creek. I think the Combs came from North Carolina to Holston River. Meredith Combs of Clay County is a son of my uncle John or Jack Combs