Clara Belle Eversole Cornett

Statement

on

General Elijah ('lige) Combs

Arrival in Kentucky

(Including a statement on various slaves owned by him and my best shot at translation)
1792 arrival of Elijah Combs and his new wife in Hazard and the belongings they brought (including slaves).
General Combs.

Sallie Roark Combs

Went on grave yard hill and killed two wild turkeys and on down in town branch and killed a deer for widding [sic-wedding] dinner.

Sallie [Aunt Anne for slave from home in Virginia.

Gen. bought, Phylis Louis' mother and Hale manison's mother and brought thru together,

bought Aunt Nance & Uncle Jake from bluegrass [where they had] run from Shiriff [sic-Sheriff] and got Alex as she run but left little baby in cradle (Blind Granny).

 

The above story recouts the arrival of General Elijah ("lige") Combs in what would become Hazard. Where the existing Eversole-Combs Graveyard is (behind Consolidated Baptist) on top of the hill they set up and held their wedding dinner. They killed two wild Turkeys and later a deer down along the Branch of the Kentucky River ("town ranch").

Coming with them were several slaves whose names have been lost but whose chidlren (Phylis Louis and Hale Mansion) were BROUGHT with Lige and Sally.

Two other slaves, Aunt Nance and Uncle Jake were bought after they had run from the sheriff in the Bluegrass area of Kentucky. It is unclear who "Alex" is but appearantly "she" ran away (again) leaving her baby who obviously grew up to old age and was known as "Blind Granny".

Clara Eversole Cornett Statement on various Combs branches as she remembered them

Clara Eversole Cornett's statment on various early Combs Relationships. (She appears to be recounting the children of General Lige and Sally Roark)

  Jackson G. (Sally Anne & Steve Hogg (Aunt Alice E)

Lige (Sallie Davidson, Loice Morgan, Polly and Hike Combs)

Jesse

Polly Duff married John A. Duff

------- married Huram Wootton

Lucinda married Shade Duff & George Isau (Gave his two slaves to not with her)

Loice married Rob. Cornett {Yod.Cornett, (Lige)

Jesse Combs & Polly Boling:

Minerva

Mary Anne-Austin Godsey

Susan & Sarah

Pratt (Loice)

Dutch (Alisa)

Josia

John (rebels killed him in war)

Jesse (died of TB)

Peggy (Jim Fitzgoatire??

Nancy and Bill Fields

Clara Eversole Cornett's statment on   the settlement locations of the children of General Elijah's parents -listed as Johnie Combs and Margaret Combs who migrated FROM North Carolina. According to the Combs Genealogy and other sources, John was known as the "Father of 8" but his wife was listed as "Nancy" so there is an inconsistency.
Johnie Combs

Margaret Combs

Came from North Came from North

Carolina

settled on the John Godsey

farm on Carrs Fork

Bill Combs (at Corner shoat, Perr Co. now Leslie)

Mason Combs (at Macey's Creek-Perry County)

General Combs (lige) (at Hazard was a cane brader

George Combs

Danger Combs (Kendrick or Birdeys). Tory

John Combs

Amig?? Combs

Leslie

Judy??? -----Molly Combs ---- Walker