Moweaqua News 2/17/1909
Suffering ended. J. J.Combs an aged citizen is summoned to his eternal home after a stroke of paralysis which he suffered a couple of weeks ago. Funeral is Sunday in Macon. Jabez J.Combs,an aged and highly respected citizen, died at his home in Macon on Thursday, the 11 February 1909, being at the time of his death, 84 years, 2 months and 4 days old. On the 31 of January, Mr.Combs suffered a stroke of paralysis,which with other disease consequent to his old age, caused his death.
Mr.Combs was the son of William and Osenath Combs and was born in a farm near Rushville, N. Carolina, 7 December 1824. He was one of a family of eight children, five boys and three girls. The father, mother, one brother and two sisters have preceded him to the better land. He moved with his father from N.Carolina to Indiana at the age of nine years where he lived and grew to manhood. On 4 November 1849, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah J.Whitaker at the home of the brides parents near Scotland,Green Co. Indiana. They immediately moved to Scotland and went to housekeeping living there and in that vicinity until the spring of 1861 when he moved to a farm near Mt.Auburn, Christian Co, Illinois where he resided for about three years when in the winter of 1864, he moved to Macon in order to give his children the advantage of the schools for an education and he has lived in the town and on a farm near there ever since. To this union were born twelve children,6 boys and 6 girls, namely, A. J.Combs of Moweaqua, E.B. Combs of Macon, James A Combs of Douglas , Arizona, W. M.Combs of Macon, Viola Combs, who died in infancy, E.S.and Joel A.Combs of Findlay,Illinois, Mrs.Gladys Highly and Nora Thomlinson of Macon, Mrs. Ada Armstrong of Niantic, Mrs.Ethel Lindly and Saraha Patterson of Macon, eleven of whom are living and who with the wife, one brother living in Kansas, two brothers and one sister living in Indiana are left to mourn his departure.
Jabez Combs was a member of the Baptist church at Moweaqua.He had for more than sixty years been affiliated with the Baptist churches in Indiana and Illinois, a glorious service. He was buried in the Macon cemetery from the Methodist church of that city. Rev. J. N. Edmondson pastor of the First Baptist church of Moweaqua, assisted by others, conducted the funeral services.
Obituary furnished by Janet Donner
Suffering ended. J. J.Combs an aged citizen is summoned to his eternal home after a stroke of paralysis which he suffered a couple of weeks ago. Funeral is Sunday in Macon. Jabez J.Combs,an aged and highly respected citizen, died at his home in Macon on Thursday, the 11 February 1909, being at the time of his death, 84 years, 2 months and 4 days old. On the 31 of January, Mr.Combs suffered a stroke of paralysis,which with other disease consequent to his old age, caused his death.
Mr.Combs was the son of William and Osenath Combs and was born in a farm near Rushville, N. Carolina, 7 December 1824. He was one of a family of eight children, five boys and three girls. The father, mother, one brother and two sisters have preceded him to the better land. He moved with his father from N.Carolina to Indiana at the age of nine years where he lived and grew to manhood. On 4 November 1849, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah J.Whitaker at the home of the brides parents near Scotland,Green Co. Indiana. They immediately moved to Scotland and went to housekeeping living there and in that vicinity until the spring of 1861 when he moved to a farm near Mt.Auburn, Christian Co, Illinois where he resided for about three years when in the winter of 1864, he moved to Macon in order to give his children the advantage of the schools for an education and he has lived in the town and on a farm near there ever since. To this union were born twelve children,6 boys and 6 girls, namely, A. J.Combs of Moweaqua, E.B. Combs of Macon, James A Combs of Douglas , Arizona, W. M.Combs of Macon, Viola Combs, who died in infancy, E.S.and Joel A.Combs of Findlay,Illinois, Mrs.Gladys Highly and Nora Thomlinson of Macon, Mrs. Ada Armstrong of Niantic, Mrs.Ethel Lindly and Saraha Patterson of Macon, eleven of whom are living and who with the wife, one brother living in Kansas, two brothers and one sister living in Indiana are left to mourn his departure.
Jabez Combs was a member of the Baptist church at Moweaqua.He had for more than sixty years been affiliated with the Baptist churches in Indiana and Illinois, a glorious service. He was buried in the Macon cemetery from the Methodist church of that city. Rev. J. N. Edmondson pastor of the First Baptist church of Moweaqua, assisted by others, conducted the funeral services.
Obituary furnished by Janet Donner
Moweaqua News 2/17/1909
Suffering ended. J. J.Combs an aged citizen is summoned to his eternal home after a stroke of paralysis which he suffered a couple of weeks ago. Funeral is Sunday in Macon. Jabez J.Combs,an aged and highly respected citizen, died at his home in Macon on Thursday, the 11 February 1909, being at the time of his death, 84 years, 2 months and 4 days old. On the 31 of January, Mr.Combs suffered a stroke of paralysis,which with other disease consequent to his old age, caused his death.
Mr.Combs was the son of William and Osenath Combs and was born in a farm near Rushville, N. Carolina, 7 December 1824. He was one of a family of eight children, five boys and three girls. The father, mother, one brother and two sisters have preceded him to the better land. He moved with his father from N.Carolina to Indiana at the age of nine years where he lived and grew to manhood. On 4 November 1849, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah J.Whitaker at the home of the brides parents near Scotland,Green Co. Indiana. They immediately moved to Scotland and went to housekeeping living there and in that vicinity until the spring of 1861 when he moved to a farm near Mt.Auburn, Christian Co, Illinois where he resided for about three years when in the winter of 1864, he moved to Macon in order to give his children the advantage of the schools for an education and he has lived in the town and on a farm near there ever since. To this union were born twelve children,6 boys and 6 girls, namely, A. J.Combs of Moweaqua, E.B. Combs of Macon, James A Combs of Douglas , Arizona, W. M.Combs of Macon, Viola Combs, who died in infancy, E.S.and Joel A.Combs of Findlay,Illinois, Mrs.Gladys Highly and Nora Thomlinson of Macon, Mrs. Ada Armstrong of Niantic, Mrs.Ethel Lindly and Saraha Patterson of Macon, eleven of whom are living and who with the wife, one brother living in Kansas, two brothers and one sister living in Indiana are left to mourn his departure.
Jabez Combs was a member of the Baptist church at Moweaqua.He had for more than sixty years been affiliated with the Baptist churches in Indiana and Illinois, a glorious service. He was buried in the Macon cemetery from the Methodist church of that city. Rev. J. N. Edmondson pastor of the First Baptist church of Moweaqua, assisted by others, conducted the funeral services.
Obituary furnished by Janet Donner
Suffering ended. J. J.Combs an aged citizen is summoned to his eternal home after a stroke of paralysis which he suffered a couple of weeks ago. Funeral is Sunday in Macon. Jabez J.Combs,an aged and highly respected citizen, died at his home in Macon on Thursday, the 11 February 1909, being at the time of his death, 84 years, 2 months and 4 days old. On the 31 of January, Mr.Combs suffered a stroke of paralysis,which with other disease consequent to his old age, caused his death.
Mr.Combs was the son of William and Osenath Combs and was born in a farm near Rushville, N. Carolina, 7 December 1824. He was one of a family of eight children, five boys and three girls. The father, mother, one brother and two sisters have preceded him to the better land. He moved with his father from N.Carolina to Indiana at the age of nine years where he lived and grew to manhood. On 4 November 1849, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah J.Whitaker at the home of the brides parents near Scotland,Green Co. Indiana. They immediately moved to Scotland and went to housekeeping living there and in that vicinity until the spring of 1861 when he moved to a farm near Mt.Auburn, Christian Co, Illinois where he resided for about three years when in the winter of 1864, he moved to Macon in order to give his children the advantage of the schools for an education and he has lived in the town and on a farm near there ever since. To this union were born twelve children,6 boys and 6 girls, namely, A. J.Combs of Moweaqua, E.B. Combs of Macon, James A Combs of Douglas , Arizona, W. M.Combs of Macon, Viola Combs, who died in infancy, E.S.and Joel A.Combs of Findlay,Illinois, Mrs.Gladys Highly and Nora Thomlinson of Macon, Mrs. Ada Armstrong of Niantic, Mrs.Ethel Lindly and Saraha Patterson of Macon, eleven of whom are living and who with the wife, one brother living in Kansas, two brothers and one sister living in Indiana are left to mourn his departure.
Jabez Combs was a member of the Baptist church at Moweaqua.He had for more than sixty years been affiliated with the Baptist churches in Indiana and Illinois, a glorious service. He was buried in the Macon cemetery from the Methodist church of that city. Rev. J. N. Edmondson pastor of the First Baptist church of Moweaqua, assisted by others, conducted the funeral services.
Obituary furnished by Janet Donner
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