Combs

Biram Combs – Removed to Wayne Co. KY

Many Combs descendants removed to Indiana.

Notes on “descent into Kentucky”- The route of the 8 Combs brothers and their father followed Hwy 23 from Kingsport, TN to Combs is an Anglo-Celtic name meaning Dweller at a Hollow, Valley, or Hill Recess or even Dweller at a Ridge or Hill-Crest.

Payne Gap, Jenkins, KY., crossing Clinch Mountain, following the Old Wilderness Road, then Clinch River and Powell Valley.

Prob. used in Old English. First recorded name, Richard de COMBE, Knight, 1120 and Alice de CUMBE, 1304. Hundreds of

Leaving Wilderness Road they went up the balley at Big Stone Gap, through Norton, VA, then through Pound Gap; probably variants, including COOMBES, COMME, COMBIES, COMBS, etc. etc. A John Combes is listed in Shakespeare’s will. Combs

followed the Kentucky River after that.

is a popular last name in colonial New England, although the southern Combs definitely settled in Jamestown in 1619 BEFORE

Nicholas “Danger Nick” Combs

the great Indian massacre of 1623 – so it can be safely assumed that, wherever they hid, they were among the survivors.

m. Nancy Euphemia Grigsby