Tabitha Combs

Tabitha? Combs, b 1795-1798, probably in Grayson Co, Virginia; d date unknown and may have married Jesse Stacy.

According to Napoleon Bonaparte's Dickey Diary Interview, he had five sisters, with Wilmouth the youngest. The 1810 Clay Co, KY census includes two daughters born 1801-1810; however, if the “fifth” daughter was older than Wilmouth, she was b pre-1799. Tabitha as the given name is undocumented, taken from The Combes Genealogy… which includes no additional information. She may have been deceased prior to 1830 (Perry Co, KY DBB:381-2, dated 4/10/1848-4/12/1848), and possibly before 1820 since she does not appear in her parents' Clay County household (although she could have married prior to that time). Recent research of Perry Co. court and land records show that Jesse Stacy was included in the list of the heirs of Mason Combs. In 1835 per a court minute book entry, he receives the same distribution amount ($19.50) from the estate as do all the other documented sons and sons-in-laws (see below chronology). Seven children are living in Jesse's household per the 1830 Perry Co. census. It is not known if the older female in his 1830 household was Tabitha or perhaps a second wife. Jesse Stacy does not appear in the 1850 Perry Co. census. In 1855, Gilbert Combs and his wife Louisa sold their interest in the estate of Jesse Stacy deceased and also sold their parts in the widow's dower and any land yet to be laid off. This transaction suggests that Jesse left a widow who received a dower's part; however, no name of a widow or wife has been located in any record at this time. On 10 April 1861 one Reen Combs (aka Lurena aka Serena and sometimes styled Stacy), the widow of Jackson D Combs, sold land that Jesse STACY lived on in his lifetime suggesting that she could possibly have been a daughter of Jesse.

Jesse Stacy is believed to have been the son of Benjamin Stacy and Barbara Combs (d/o of Soldier John "8" Combs) whose daughter Nancy married Preston Combs, son of Mason and Jane Combs. Jesse Stacy and his brother-in-law Washington Combs obtained land patents on the same day in 1838.

• Ref: Mason+Jane Descendants See also Combs DNA site.