Other Events:

• Residence: 20 Aug 1850, Morgan County, Kentucky

Nathan Elizabeth Cline 7 Jun 1854Arkansas. Elizabeth Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Isaac G. Combs 3 Jun 1855 Prairie Township, Washington County, Arkansas.

Other Events:

• Residence: 7 Aug 1820, Clay County, Kentucky
• Residence: 1830, Perry County, Kentucky
• Residence: 30 Jul 1850, Breathitt County, Kentucky
• Residence: 10 Jul 1860, Morgan County, Kentucky

Notes:

Residence:
(DJS) Use caution with this record. Much documentation exists for membership to the NSSAR under ancestors of Mathew Combs. These applications state that Mathew died in Breathitt County, Kentucky in 1859. This 1860 Census record shows a Moses Combs within two years of the age of Mathew Combs. I believe it is highly likely that these are the same person between the 1850-1860 census enumerations. BOTH Mathew (1850 Census) and Moses (1860 Census) have a wife named Frances who was born in Georgia. The birth state of the Mathew/Moses vary though. The most compelling bit of information is that in both of these census years, the person named Mathew (1850) and Moses (1860) is recorded as being blind.
Use your own judgement; I welcome input.

Mathew Frances Brown 28 May 1810Clay County, Kentucky. Frances (daughter of William Brown, (Tentative)) 1 Feb 1789 Georgia; 18 Feb 1872Breathitt County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 30 Jul 1850, Breathitt County, Kentucky
• Residence: 10 Jul 1860, Morgan County, Kentucky
• Residence: 31 Jul 1870, Breathitt County, Kentucky

Notes:

On the 1850 Federal Census in Breathitt County, KY, Frances's birth place is recorded as Georgia.

Other Events:

• Personal Property Taxation: 26 Dec 1788, Montgomery County, Virginia
• Personal Property Taxation: 24 Aug 1789, Montgomery County, Virginia; No additional Tithables or taxable property is listed. The name of Benjamin Clements immediately precedes Henry's name in this list.
• Personal Property Taxation: 4 Mar 1790, Montgomery County, Virginia
• Personal Property Taxation: 3 Apr 1793, Wythe County, Virginia
• Personal Property Taxation: 9 Apr 1794, Wythe County, Virginia
• Residence: 1810, Clay County, Kentucky
• Possessions: 8 Jun 1810, Clay County, Kentucky; Old Kentucky Land Patent OK 6471.0
• Residence: 7 Aug 1820, Clay County, Kentucky
• Residence: 1830, Perry County, Kentucky
• Miscellaneous: 1837-1838, Indiana; Moved to Indiana
• Residence: 1840, Greene County, Indiana
• Miscellaneous: 1848, Kentucky; Visited Kentucky
• Residence: 1850, Greene County, Indiana; Henry may still have been living in 1850.

Notes:

Personal Property Taxation:
Benjamin Clements was not found in the 1788 Personal Property Tax Lists in Montgomery County.

Residence:
Based upon the research of others but backed up by the interviews of family members by the Reverend John Jay Dickey, this appears to be the Henry Combs and perhaps some other relatives living in Greene County, Indiana.

Residence:
The family members enumerated with the Henry Combs listed in Greene County, Indiana may have been a third wife and their children or perhaps just some older children in the family - maybe even children from a deceased wife's family. Without additional documents, this census enumeration raises more questions than it answers. There's a reference to his birth in South Carolina but the oldest female member of this family was recorded as being born in Kentucky. This document may also serve to discredit the 1840 Census as being the correct Henry Combs and family. What is known is that Henry was still living in 1848 and he visited, from his home in Indiana, his family in Kentucky. Family members stated that he visited, not that he died in Kentucky. Henry may well have returned to Indiana and still been alive for the 1850 Census enumeration. Use both census enumerations, 1840 & 1850 with discretion (DJS - May 8, 2013).

Died:
Source is NSSAR Applications. Perry County, Kentucky is also a possibility but it appears that Henry only came back to Kentucky for a "visit" and probably went back to Indiana.

Henry Rachael Clements 21 Sep 1788Montgomery County, Virginia. Rachael (daughter of Benjamin Clements, (Speculation - This Benjamin may not be the son of Benjamin Clements of Pittsylvania County, VA - See Notes) and Sarah Bailey) about 1770; about 1830Perry County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
A brief of wills and marriages in Montgomery and Fincastle counties, Virginia, 1773-1831
The above titled book purportedly contains the following information:
Page 13==A brief of Wills & Marriages of Montgomery and Fincastle Counties, VA
1733-1821
Compiled by Anne Lowry Worrell

COMBS, Henry and Rachel Clements, d/o Benj. Clements, Mason Combs, surety.
Marriage by Edward Morgan. 9/21/1788.
Combs, John and Biddy Nance 5/31/1779
Joseph Porter, Bondsman.

The above referenced book does exist but not in wide distribution. The closest source is only about 50 miles distant from my location and might be reviewed given an opportunity to travel in that direction. However, review of copies of the originals would be preferable (DJS - May 8, 2013).

Notes:

The name William Brown comes from a letter by Stephen Sewell Combs, would would be the great Grandson of William Brown. In the letter he states that William Brown came over from England before the Revolutionary War.

Other Events:

• NSDAR Ancestor Number: A204415
• Military Service (Specific): American Revolutionary War Service: North Carolina Rank: Patriotic Service Service Source: Wells, Joseph Winston: His Entry Book, P 170 Service Description: 1) Signed Oath of Allegiance upon Land Entry 1778-1781
• Personal Property Taxation: 29 Jun 1787, Montgomery County, Virginia; 1 male Tithable, no slaves over 16, no slaves 12-16 years old, 4 horses, mares or mules, 5 head of cattle.
• Personal Property Taxation: 26 Dec 1788, Montgomery County, Virginia
• Personal Property Taxation: 13 Jul 1789, Montgomery County, Virginia; No additonal Tithables, no slaves, 5 Horses, Mares, Colts or Mules.

Notes:

See Montgomery County, Virginia Personal Property Tax List, 1789 - C, pp. 5-6 (Binns Genealogy). On page 5 there is a John Combs and on page 6 there is another John Combs whose name appears to have been marked through. Directly below that John Combs on page 6 there is a Mason Combs.

I did not find John Combs Sr on the 1790 Tax Lists (A,B or C) in Montgomery County. Only Henry Combs appears on those lists in 1790.

NSDAR Ancestor Number:
John Combs is recognized as a patriot for his "Oath of allegience upon land entry 1778-1781."

Buried:
Probably originally in that part of Floyd County which became a part of Perry County.

John Nancy Harding about 1760. Nancy (daughter of Henry Harding and Wilmoth George) about 1741 Dunmore County, Virginia; 1820Floyd County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
This marriage may have taken place in Frederick County, Virginia

Other Events:

• Miscellaneous: May 1777, Virginia; An act to oblige the free male inhabitants of this state above a certain age to give assurance of Allegiance to the same, and for other purposes.
• Personal Property Taxation: 1782, Montgomery County, Virginia; 1 Tithable, 3 Slaves, 6 Horses, 15 Cattle
• Possessions: 1 May 1784, Montgomery County, Virginia; 510 Acres of land in Montgomery County on both sides of Little Reed Island Creek, a tributary of New River.
• Personal Property Taxation: 24 Aug 1789, Montgomery County, Virginia; No additional white male Tithables over 16 but under 21, 3 slaves 16 or older, 2 horses, mares, colts or mules.
• Personal Property Taxation: 4 Mar 1790, Montgomery County, Virginia; No additional white male Tithables over 16 but under 21, 1 slave over 12 but under 16, 2 slaves over 16 years old, 3 horses, mares, colts or mules.
• Personal Property Taxation: 22 May 1793, Wythe County, Virginia; No additional white male Tithables over 16 years old, 4 slaves over 16 years old, 3 horses, mares, colts or mules.
• Personal Property Taxation: 27 May 1794, Wythe County, Virginia; 2 Tithables, 4 slaves over 16 years old, 3 Horses, mules, etc.
• Will: Dec 1813, Harrison County, Kentucky; Estate Sale

Notes:

Note to researchers: * * * In short, the records on this page may currently represent documentation on two different individuals with the same name.


The records from Southwest Virginia are more likely to be the correct records documenting Benjamin Clements who was the father of Rachael (or Rachel) Clements.

Whether this particular Benjamin Clements is the same Benjamin whose father was the manufacturer of saltpeter and gundpowder in Pittsylvania County, Virginia is uncertain. It is clear that one Benjamin Clements was the father of Rachael Clements who married Henry Combs in Montgomery County, Virginia but it is unclear whether Rachael's father was the son of Benjamin Clements from Pittsylvania County. (DJS - 15 May 2013).

It would appear that the Benjamin Clements who was the son of Benjamin Clements of Pittsylvania County, VA died in Pittsylvania County, VA in 1780 (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~clement/people/person0011.htm) This would make the relationship very suspect since Henry Combs married his wife, Rachael Clements d/o Benjamin in Montgomery County, VA in 1788. A Benjamin Clements who was most likely the father of Rachael was taxed in Montgomery County, VA in 1782 and I have also found him in tax records Montgomery Personal Property Tax records in 1789 & 1790. In the 1789 list, the name of Benjamin Clements immediately precedes that of Henry Combs.

Lineage posted in the DAR Genealogical Research System (Online) indicates that Benjamin Clements, son of Benjamin Clements from Pittsylvania County, VA died in Harrison County, Kentucky in 1813. There was a Benjamin Clements who died in Harrison County, Kentucky as proven by probate records. See Ancestor Number: A022963 in the DAR Genealogical Research System.



Miscellaneous:
All freeborn males were required to take an oath of allegiance including a renunciation of all allegiance to King George III of Great Britain.
Benjamin Clements Sr. and Benjamin Clements Jr. were among the list of William Ward in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The list of individuals is not included in Hening's Statutes but is purportedly existing in the records of the Pittsylvania County Clerk's Office in Chatham, Virginia as well as having been published in The Magazine of VA Genealogy, v.23, #1 (Feb.1985).

Possessions:
Today, Little Reed Island Creek flows through Carroll, Wythe and finally, Pulaski County, Virginia where it empties into the New River.

Personal Property Taxation:
Surname spelled: Clements

Personal Property Taxation:
Surname Spelled: Clement

Personal Property Taxation:
Surname Spelled: Clemons

Personal Property Taxation:
Surname Spelled: Clemons

I did not find Benjamin in the 1795 Wythe County, Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists available at Binns Genealogy which were the 1795 A & B lists. (DJS - 15 May 2013)

Died:
Benjamin's estate went through probate and an estate sale was held in December 1813. The estate was administered by James Clement.

A Will may Exist. I have seen an estate sale from Harrison County, Kentucky online at a public Ancestry Tree.

6 Sep 2012: I have still been unable to find a Will. It appears that Benjamin's estate went through probate without a Will (DJS).

Benjamin Sarah Bailey 17 Apr 1786Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Sarah about 1768. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sarah is purportedly the second wife of Benjamin.