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MEMBER PROFILE Larry Combs Colonel Ben E. Caudill Camp #1629 |
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 Larry Combs |
Larry Combs was born in 1946 and has lived in Limestone, New York all of his life. His father was born in Lee County, Kentucky in a place called Zoe (north of Beatyville). His father was Spencer Combs (b. 1876 in Perry County) and his father was Nicholas Combs that was born in 1839. Nicholas’s father was called Jeremiah “Long Jerry” Combs. He is married to Diana Himes Combs and they have five children. They are Christopher, Matthew, Caleb, Rebecca and Jessi. He owns a one-man auto repair shop and teaches an adult Sunday School Class at the Limestone Pentecostal Tabernacle. He has very strong ties to the 13th Kentucky Cavalry. His is the great-grandson of Nicholas Combs and the great grandnephew of Elijah Combs and the great-great grandnephew of Phillip Williams, Robert Williams, and John H. Williams. His lineage also includes Gentry and Kincaid. Larry's hobbies include deer hunting, dirt bike riding, hunting for burial sites for our boys and genealogy. He has been instrumental in rediscovering several sites that the camp has been looking for but could not locate. His tireless effort has assisted us with camp projects and we owe him a great debt of gratitude. No one in the Caudill Camp in the past year has worked as much on 13th Kentucky research and produced as many new discoveries as Larry Combs. Larry provided our camp with the first information on the whereabouts of 13th Kentucky soldiers we would have never found that include, Benjamin B. Adams, William Ashley, Willoughby Biggs, A.J. Booth, Robert Thacker-Dials, James Duke, Miles Gibson, Archelous Hammonds, James Herd, Christian Leach, William T. Moore, McCager Napier, James T. Rogers, Martin Shepherd, Richard Sparkman, Hiram Strong, Julius Strong, Samuel W. Thompson, James C. Walker, Robert Wicker, John H. Williams, Phillip Williams and Robert Williams. Faron Sparkman is in contact with Larry by e-mail almost every day looking into new areas of research, so in spite of the miles that separate us, Larry is a valued member of this camp and we are proud to call him our compatriot, our pardner, our friend, our brother....The Old General
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