Jumping a brick wall...

Lewis Combs 1916-1978 married 23 December 1935
Clara Hall 1914-1975

Jahew Combs 1885-1930 married 15 August 1907
Elizabeth (Moris) Turner 1879-1987

William Breckingridge Combs 1848- married 1868
Sarah Herald 1849

Edwin C Combs 1831-1862 married 1847
Sylvania Herald 1831

Clinton "Grizzler" Combs 1808- married
Matilda Combs

Mason Combs 1757-1822 married 29 January 1793
"Jenny" Richardson -1822

John Combs 1733-1820 married abt.1750 "Father of 8"
Nancy Harding 1740-1819

Mason Combs 1714-16 November 1785 married 1734
Sarah Ann Nelson abt. 1714

John Combs 1662-1718 married
Hannah Mason

Archdale Combs abt 1640-1684 married 1660
Elizabeth Butler 1625

John Combe 1602-1652 married 3 July 1630
Elizabeth Lovett 1614-1656

John Combe 1567-1640 married 1587
Margaret Archdale 1569

Cincinnati Gilbert

Cincinnati Gilbert

Cincinnati Gilbert

I was just given this family relic. It is an ID pin for GGrandpa Bosaw. It is from a company he worked for in Cincinnati. I dont have his employement records.

They have been in business since 1893. The original family owners just sold it in 1995. I have made contact with the company for information, but have not heard back. : (

105 Moore Street Bromley Kentucky

Growing up in Ludlow Kentucky

144 Lake Park Drive(Stillwater), Alexandria Kentucky

Winter pics of "Stillwater"

1537 Russell Street, Covington Kentucky

Our first apartment after we(me and Mary) got married in '83. We lived on the second floor.

1536 Nancy Street, Covington Kentucky

The first house I ever bought. It cost a whooping $25,000. Not a bad house, built in 1929 by a father and son. The house to right was built by the same pair. Unfortunately, our home was stripped of the nice woodwork that was still a part of the home to the right. After I moved out, there was a fire in the home. The new owners added siding and other changes.

784 Terrace Court, Claryville(Alexandria) Kentucky

My first home in Campbell County. I moved here in May of '01. I joined SCFD before I even moved in.

11667 Crestview Lane,Grant's Lick(Alexandria) Kentucky

This was(is) known as the "Bachelor pad" by Cathy.

Buck Herald Cemetery

The final resting place for JWB Combs, Elizabeth"Lizzie"Moris~Combs(Short)

James Nelson Fields

Cathy's Grandfather and Great Grandfather were James Nelson Fields
From Harlan, Clay & Jackson county Kentucky

Builders of Destiny

Builders of Destiny
by Jesse Stuart
They lie, our pioneers, where highways run.They lie where railroads go and cities stand.Their brittle bones have been exposed to sunAnd wind. Their bones are restless in this land.What does it matter if their bones do lieBeneath the turning wheels where millions pass,Builders and dreamers born to live and dieLike white plum petals on the April grass?What does it matter if their bones turn stone, Their flesh be richer dust our plowshares turn,Builders who made America our own, Whose blood has fed the roots of grass and fern?Dreamers and builders of our destiny, They left their epitaph for all to read;A land of dream and wealth and energy,A land where freedom is the greatest greed.
June 14, 2008

William "Buck" and Sallie (Herald) Combs

One of my latest discoveries are of my Great Grandpa JWB (Jehue's) Combs parents. I have discovered their names.but unfortunately I do not have anything other information.

Farming and Coal mining

GrandPa and Grandma Combs











My family from the mountains of Southeastern Kentucky were farmers and coalminers. They were a hardy bunch that worked by the sweat of their brow, and the strenght of their back. Grandpa Combs was farmer until he came to N Ky. to find work in the steelmill in Newport. But the hills of Kentucky were in his blood, and he and grandma bought land for a farm on Elsome Creek. They would plow the fields with mules, and clear with cycle and blade.


Grandpa Hall was a farmer,and coal miner. He owned over 400 acres on Mill Creek, and the old homestead was off Hall's Branch. From family history he was killed in coal mine just up the hill from our old Hall homestead in November in 1941.












This is the old Hall's place.

Since coal and grain runs thru my veins,it could explain my love for this place. In a world where things are so crazy some times. I long for the peace that this place brings. I am beginning to understand why others that have roots in this soil return again and again. Even with its rugginess there is also such a peace. By looking around it is not about having more than the Jones, but a sense of your neighbor is family, and probably is. These mountains are from a simplier times, and it is a place time has almost forgot.

Grandpa Shepherd

Unknown location, He served during WWI

More of Combs farm

More of Combs farm