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SURVIVED BY TEN CHILDREN, WOMAN ILL FOR MONTHS SURCUMBS AT HOME:
Berea, KY., July 18, 1928-- Mrs. Martha Reynolds Combs, 85 years old, died last night at 7:30 o'clock at her home here. She had been a near invalid for several months.
Mrs. Combs was the mother of Gilbert R. Combs, pastor of the First Methodist Church, South, Lexington: Sidney Baines Combs, of the Perry Lumber Company, and Wesley B. Combs, all of Lexington.
She was the daughter of Wesley and Nancy Moore Reynolds, of Clay County, and was the great granddaughter of Richard Reynolds, of North Carolina, who married Elizabeth Mclemire, of Ireland.
On November 28, 1862, just before the battle of Fredricksburg, she was married to Andrew Jackson Combs, of Breathitt County, KY. Following his marriage, Mr. Combs joined the State Guards and served in that capacity until the close of the war. He died at his home in Jackson County on August 23, 1895.
After her husband's death Mrs. Combs moved to Berea so that her children might have the advantages of an education.
Besides her three sons who live in Lexington, Mrs. Combs is survived by seven other children. Tarleton Combs, Leander Combs, Henry Clay Combs, Mrs. Mary Ann Anderson and Mrs. Lucy Ann Banks, all of Berea; Meredith Combs, of Corbin, and Dr. James Madison Combs, of Mt. Sterling. She is also survived by two brothers, Leander Reynolds, of Owsley County, and Gilbert Reynolds, of Leslie county, and two sisters, Mrs. Pauline Huff, of Leslie County, and Mrs. J. Reynolds Gabbard, of Owsley County. Funeral services will be held at Berea Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with Rev. A. J. Reid of the Berea Methodist Church officiating.
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