- I was born in Perry Co., Ky in 1808. All I know about my age is that I voted for General Jackson. I think it was his second election for I only voted for him once. My father was Mason COMBS. My mother was Jennie RICHESON or RICHARDSON. He had seven brothers came. William COMBS, my uncle went to Fayette County. He was at my mothers after my father died and wanted to take me to his home to raise me. My father had 11 children, 5 girls and 6 boys, I am the youngest. The girls were born first. Willie, the youngest daughter, was born in Kentucky. There are seven children, at least, born after the COMBSES came to Kentucky and the youngest was born in 1808. The surveyor books are good authority. John DUFF was the first surveyor I knew. I think the COMBSES are Irish. Stephen JETT told me that he stayed all night at my fathers when he moved to Kentucky. My father took up all the land he could in his own name and then took up in his daughters, Willie's name. He owned six miles up Carr, also up and down the North Fork. He had land in Tennessee. He left his land on the Holston. Said their were Indians in Kentucky and if he could not live here he would have his land to go back to. He never sold it. He had plenty here and did not need it.
I married Miss Susuan ISOM. My father-in-law said he used to carry his gun while plowing, but I do not know that there were any Indians here. The ISOMS must have come about as early as the COMBSES. I moved first to Breathitt about 50 years ago, then to Owsley seven years later. General Leslie COMBS of Lexington was a cousin of my father. I have always understood it. One of my nephews named his son for him. So did Hardin COMBS of the Middle Fork, Breathiit. Old Leslie told Wiley COMBS, my son-in-law, "Never deny you name it is a good a name as there is in this world" He always claimed kin with us.
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