Obituary of John Joseph COMBS - Hampshire County, WV 11 July 1900

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"Jeff COMBS, Editor of the Piedmont Independent, as well as his brother
and two sisters, were called here Monday by the critical illness of their
father, Mr. J.J. COMBS"
- The Hampshire Review, 11 July 1900

"Mr. COMBS Very Ill - Our venerable friend, Mr. Jno. J. COMBS has been
very ill since last Thursday evening.  Up unto that time he had been in
his usual good health.  On the 4th inst, he went fishing, despite the
fact that he has long ago lived out his four score years.  Thursday
evening he attended the funeral of Mrs. MARSHALL, that night he was
taken ill and since that time his condition has been very critical."
- The Hampshire Review, 11 July 1900

"Since writing the above we were shocked to hear of Mr. COMBS' death.
The end came about 4 o'clock Tuesday evening, July 10, 1900.  The
deceased was in his 88th year.  He worked for sixty years in the office
of the South Branch Intelligencer, and only retired from there about
six years ago.  Mr. COMBS was a member of the M.E. Church, South.  The
funeral services will take place Thursday morning at 10 o'clock,
conducted by the Rev. B.F. BALL."
- The Hampshire Review, 11 July 1900

"Local News - It is said that Jno. J. COMBS, who recently died here, did
the first job of printing for Chas. Broadway ROUSS, the New York
millionaire merchant, ever ordered."
- The Hampshire Review, 18 July 1900

"John J. COMBS - EDITOR REVIEW - The following appeared in the
Intelligencer April 29, '92: 

For the Intelligencer. Mrs. HARPER - The following was written after
reading a notice in your issue of Feb. 26th of the birth day of 
Mr. John J. COMBS, but withheld, fearing you would think it too personal.
But remembering that we are too apt to delay saying good and kindly
things of our friends till after they have passed away, I inclose it.

Your reference to the age of Mr. John J. COMBS carried one of your
readers back to boyhood days - to '46-'53 - to the old Court House
(occupied by the Intelligencer) - to the hurry and excitement Saturdays
getting ready to "go fishing with 'Dody'".  Whether Mr. COMBS was an
original fixture of the Intelligencer, I am not prepared positively to
say.  That (with the exception of a short arrangement with the Argus)
he has been 'there or thereabout', I believe, for at least 45 years.
Unselfish, retiring, self-denying and reverent - loyal to his church -
in these few have excelled John J. COMBS.  With native talent, industry
and knowledge of his profession superior to many who have risen higher
in the newspaper world, his diffidence and want of self assertion finds
him still a Typo.  The old and active men of '46 - '53!  Are the younger
generation filling their places?  FOOTE, GIBSON, WHITE, MCDOWELL,
ARMSTRONG, VANCE, MYTINGER, PARSONS, ENTLER, REAM, POLING, FRIDDLE,
MCILWEE, HARPER - but time and memory fail.  In reverie such thoughts
passed through the mind of one who may now be called an OLD MAN"
- The Hampshire Review, 18 July 1900

Matt
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