Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: William E. COMBS

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> February 2007

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Wm. E. Combs is called.

On Saturday last, December 17, 1910, at 8:15 in the evening our fellow
townsman was called to follow that road from whence no traveller returns.

Wm. E. Combs, the subject of this article, was born at Strongsville, Ohio,
Dec. 21, 1837; came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1844. At that time
travel was by water and by wagon; the Combs family adopting the latter mode
of travel drove through coming by way of Chicago, Racine and Milwaukee to
the site of the present city of Madison where they located.

The father, Elias Combs, filed on 160 acres of government land twelve miles
north of where the city stands, and in 1846 assisted in organizing town of
Windsor, and was made its first justice of the peace. It was here that Wm.
E. grew up.

On December 24, 1858, he was married to Adelia Moore, and to this union
were born four children, two of whom are still living, Mrs. J. W. Christman
and E. E. Combs, both now residents of Evansville. The mother died in 1893,
at Clinton. One brother, Sidney B. Combs, who lives at Sun Prairie, also
survives.

Mr. Combs was a veteran of the civil war and a member of the world famous
Iron Brigade. In 1863 he enlisted in the Seventh Wis. Vol. Infantry, and
was promoted for bravery on the field of battle. He was wounded at the
battle at Spottsylvania court house, and sent to the hospital at City
Point. Upon his recovery he rejoined his command and was mustered out at
the close of the war after serving two years and three months. He was a
member of Alexis Tallman Post No. 70 G. A. R., at Clinton.

In 1872, he moved to Madison, in 1885 to Clinton and in 1894 he came to
Evansville with his son-in-law, J. W. Christman.

In 1899 he was married to Mrs. Addie Hoskins, who still survives him.

On March 4, 1907, Mr. Combs suffered a shock of paralysis from which he
never fully recovered, and death came, as above stated, on Saturday.

The body was takne to Clinton for interment Tuesday, Dec. 20.

Enterprise, December 21, 1910, p. 1, col. 5, Evansville, Wisconsin