All of the contours regarding Caneland is actually obliterated. Only the material tomb, so uncommon from inside the build and you will remarkable when you look at the design, stands so you’re able to draw the location, and you can within this mausoleum, when he got wished the remains from Gen. CALMES and his partner repose.
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It’s from generosity and you will kindness off William Bailey, historian and you can genealogist, the newest Gen. Marquis Calmes Section D. might have been capable fully grasp this really works away from restoration done. The guy donated a hundred duplicates off his History of Woodford State on the production of a fund for usage within works. —-Regarding D. Journal, August, 1941. (The fresh partner regarding Gen. Calmes are Age “Betsy” Combs, a brother from my personal great-great-grandfather) Age. S. (Removed by Combs Researcher Anne B. Musser)
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Notes: Marquis CALMES died 1834, Woodford Co., KY was maybe not the husband of Elizabeth Combs (daughter of John & Seth BULLITT Combs, Sr. of Stafford Co VA). Marquis CALMES, husband of Elizabeth Combs, died testate ca 1794 in Frederick Co VA. Nevertheless, presumably he was “somehow kin” to him. Extracted by Researcher Barbara Combs from Teunis Bergen’s 1876 book, The Bergen Family, pp. 422-423 (surname capitalization added):
“George We. BERGEN, b Summer 16th, 1764, bap. Oct. 4, 1767, by Rev. Mr. VAN HARLINGEN; d. Feb, 1825; m. 1789 Rebecca, dau. out of Court Jonathan Combs, from Middlesex Condition, New jersey. Their widow a couple of years shortly zaЕЎto su guams djevojke tako lijepe after his decease yards. the fresh new Rev. Mr. KENNER, a Baptist preacher from Virginia, and you may d. from inside the 1846.”
“The new predecessor from Jonathan Combs, they do say, originated in Scotland, regarding dated boat Caledonia, and therefore put the first emigrants on the home regarding harsh Presbyterianism; they trying a home in the wild nation out of the attitude away from Papal and you will Episcopal fuel and you will persecution.”
“When you look at the 1679, Francis Combs, good cooper, try provided places when you look at the Newtown, A lot of time Area [NY], so you’re able to induce him to settle there and ply their trading to possess the handiness of the fresh new payment. He d. in the 1700, and his several sons, Francis and you may Thomas, compensated when you look at the Hopewell, Letter. J., to have [pounds] fifty, conveyed places in the Hempstead [Much time Isle, NY] so you’re able to John Combs off Madnans shoulder from said city, according to Hempstead suggestions.
“There’s an excellent John Combs from East Hampton, N. Y., as early as 1675, an effective Daniel Combs for the Hempstead [Queens Co New york] in the 1708, a great Richard Combs inside Hempstead when you look at the 1709, and you may a Richard Combs from inside the Jamaica (note: this can be section of N. Y. inside perspective, I think) [Queens Co Nyc]in 1718.
“When you look at the 1777, John Combs is a person in the revolutionary committee out of defense of the latest Jersey, at a similar period good Solomon Combs is actually a citizen off Monmouth Condition.
“To recover their luck, George We. [BERGEN], their son David, and two ilies left Nj when you look at the June 1818, getting Kentucky, in which his sister Margaret along with her spouse John VOORHEES, and two sisters off their partner, Rebecca Combs, through its husbands, Peter CONOVER and you may Peter COX, up coming stayed; they with emigrated from inside the 1790, to repay on Reddish Stone, close to the introduce Wheeling [Kansas Co, WV], then the ultima thule. Truth be told there it tarried less than a year. Peter COong the first which made their vessels and you may rafts go on the Kansas Lake.
“At the time George I. emigrated, it resided inside the Woodford Condition, Kentucky, contained in this 12 miles regarding Lexington [Fayette Co., KY]. Inside annually such parents intermarried. Old Big CONOVER are a huge landholder and you will respected are steeped, in the fresh problematic minutes upcoming inside the Kentucky, and also by dated Virginia residential property claims, the outcome try their palace decrease, and then he computed in the 1824, to sell his homestead, as well as their, and you may George We.’s members of the family made a decision to make their domestic into the Indiana. The existing big, his young man Jonathan Combs CONOVER, who’d partnered Martha, a good child out-of George We., and you will Jonathan Combs BERGEN (child out-of George We.), that has hitched Mary Ann, a great child of major, and you will George I., constituted the latest examining group.”