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R. August 23, 1894 - Death of Capt. Combs. Capt. John
Combs died last Saturday and his funeral took place from the
residence of Maj. Jere Davidson, Tuesday morning at 10
o'clock. Rev. E. E. Moran conducted the funeral services, and
the interment was at Woodland. The funeral was attended by a
large number of old friends and neighbors. Mr. and Mrs. E. R.
Mauck, the latter his daughter Ella, were present His other
daughter, Mrs. Patterson, who lives at Columbus was too ill to
be present, from whose bedside Mrs. Combs came to attend the
last sad offices.
The deceased
was born at Burlington in 1832; he married Miss Lizzie
Crawford in 1853; about which time he came to Ironton and
started a bookstore. Afterwards he went into the wharfboat
business but in about 1858 went to Pike's Peak. He returned at
the beginning of the war and entered the Union army, holding
the position of Lieutenant in the 2nd Va. Infantry. He served
through the war with credit and fidelity. In 1867, he
established the Ironton Journal, and for a few years conducted
an interesting newspaper. Capt. Combs was a quick and lively
writer and he won considerable note as an editor. Disposing of
his interest in the Journal, he established the Iron Era, bud
did not long remain with it. After this he had no regular
employment, engaging himself in insurance and other agencies,
clerkships and steamboating. For many years his health has
been declining, and he died at last of consumption, and
affliction which in former days no one ever suspected would
bring him to his grave.
And so another
of our old citizens has gone to his long home. Forty years ago
he came with a happy bride and made their home in the old Bank
block. Ironton has grown from a village; a generation has come
and gone; a great war has intervened. Through the drapery that
is pushed back from the grave, we can see him who has died,
mingling happily and kindly in those far away events, and a
tender regret comes that they are no more. Farewell.
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