Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Mc Combs, William A. May 16, 1825 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jan Cortez http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00020.html#0004939 April 17, 2009, 6:21 pm Author: Chapman Brothers WILLIAM A. McCOMBS, farmer, secs. 1 and 2, Sheridan Tp., was born May 16, 1825, in Columbiana Co., Ohio. His father Archibald McCombs, was born in Washington Co., Pa., in 1769; was of Scotch extraction, and died in 1875. The mother, Catherine (Jeffries) McCombs, was born in 1803, of English and Welsh descent, became the mother of 11 children, and is still living in Wood Co., Ohio. Mr. McCombs is the third child of his parents, and was married Feb. 6, 1851, to Catherine Patterson. She died Oct. 22, 1860, leaving six children, all of whom are living: Elizabeth Ann, John William, Nicholas A., Caroline A., David M., and Archibald. Mr. McCombs was married March 17, 1861, to Uhricksville, Tuscarawas Co., OHio, to Mrs. Susannah (Jackson) Parish, widow of Abraham Parish, to whom she was married in 1852. He died in 1856, leaving two children - Dorothy and James. Mrs. McCombs was born March 29, 1826, in Ponteland, Northumberlandshire, Eng., a few miles from Newcastle-upon- Tyne. Her father, James Jackson, was born in England, about 1803, and died in Erie Co., N.Y., in 1855. Her mother, Dorothy (Familton) Jackson, was born Feb. 22, 1805, in the village of Duns, in Northumberlandshire, Eng. She died in her native county Dec. 2, 1833. Mr. and Mrs. McCombs have had four children - Robert L., Sarah M., Etta M. and Nora B. The last child died when six months old. Mr. McCombs became a soldier in the late war, enlisting at Camp Meigs, Ohio, in Co. G, 51st Ohio Inf., for three years, but was discharged on account of disability at the end of 18 months. He is a Democrat in political faith, and belongs to the Methodist Church. He came in 1865 to Mecosta County, and entered and proved a claim of 80 acres under the homestead law, and purchased 120 acres additional. Of this, 160 acres are under first-class cultivation, and exhibit a degree of thrift and industry eminently creditable to the proprietor. He was a pioneer in the township of Sheridan. Additional Comments: 1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/mecosta/bios/mccombs578nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb