Combs, Samuel (of Sangamon Co., IL)

Born: 1771-1780

Flourished: 1832-1840 Menard County, Illinois

As early as 1824, Combs had moved from Kentucky to settle in what would become Menard County, Illinois. He and his wife Jane helped to organize the Clary's Grove Baptist Church.

U.S. Census Office, Fifth Census of the United States (1830), Sangamon County, IL, 135; Election Returns for New Salem Precinct in Sangamon County, Illinois; U.S. Census Office, Sixth Census of the United States (1840), Menard County, IL, 303; The History of Menard and Mason Counties, Illinois (Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1879), 323, 387.