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| | Combs &c. Families of Washington County, Tennessee |
 | | Washington County was first Washington District, then Washington County, and originally comprised all of Tennessee (except along the Virginia State Line - see Earliest Combs to TN), and was the parent county of most of early East Tennessee, created by an act of NC general assembly on 18 Dec 1777, organized 23 Feb 1778. |
 | | Despite his death in Sullivan Co, Tennessee in 1816, it appears, based on her RW Pension Application that his widow afterward resided in Washington Co, Tennessee, not Sullivan. |
 | | A native of Giles County, Va., he was the son of Mandville Jackson and Heneretta MARTIN Combs, and was the husband of the late Lowicie Jane LEACH, who preceded him in death Sept. 17, 1942. |
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