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  [Br²derbund WFT Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Tree #0725, Date of Import: Apr 16, 2002]
  
  I made a copy of this will.
  Russell County, Kentucky. Wills: Page 214
  
  Samuel Combest Will
  In the name of God, Amen. I Samuel Combest of Russell County, Kentucky
  being of sick & weak in body, but of sound mind & disposing memory, for
  which I thank God, & calling to mind the uncertainty of human life &
  being desirous to depose of all such worldly estate as it hath pleased
  Bod to bless me with, I do hereby make this my Last Will & Testament in
  manner following,
  1st, I desire that all the perishable part of my estate
  to be turned into money & the money put to interest & see that the
  interest together with so much of the principal, if any, as shall be
  amply sufficient for the support of my wife Sally & my two Grandchildren
  that is left with her & to defray the expense of giving said children a
  reasonable education so long as they live with her after my decease, but
  no longer.
  2nd, I wish my three daughters, Nancy Roberts, Polly Osborn &
  Margaret Bowmer to have $1.00 (One Dollar) each.
  3rd, I want my sons William Combest, James Combest & Willie (probably Wiley) Combest to have $10.00 (Ten Dollars) each.
  4th, I want my son Samuel Combest to have
  $40.00 (Forty Dollars).
  5th, I want my sons John Combest, Alexander Combest & Archibald Combest to have $20.00 (Twenty Dollars) each.
  PAGE 215 begins at the 5th Item in the Will.
  6th, I want my Executor, out of the first money that can be collected to discharge all my Funeral expenses & all my just & legal debts I am owing.
  7th, I want all the land that belongs to me to be turned in to money.
  8th, I want my wife Sally to have a good bed & furniture.
  9th, I want all the residue of the estate that is not disposed of by this Will in the foregoing clauses of the same to be equally divided between my son.
  Lastly, I do hereby constitute & appoint my son Samuel Combest & James Paul Executors of this my last Will & Testament by me heretofore made. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this 18 July 1844.
  Saml. Combest                Seal
  Signed, sealed, published & delivered as
  and for the last Will & Testament of the
  befonamed Samuel Combest in the presence
  of us, Willie Combest & Archibald Combest
  
  The last Will & Testament of Samuel Combest, deceased, was produced in
  Open Court and proven by the oaths of Wiley Combest & Archibald Combest,
  subscribing witnesses thereto & said instrument was ordered to be
  recorded.
  William S. Patterson, CRCC
  
  From the Samuel Combest and His Descendants book:
  Being the eldest child, Samuel at the time of his father's death became the legal heir to his father's estate as the law of Primogeniture was in effect in South Carolina at the time. The estate of John Combest was settled in 1786. Samuel sold his inherited land to brothers John and William Combest at different times.
  The last written record of Samuel Combest in Chester County, South Carolina is dated the 5th of November, 1799. This record, to be found at the courthouse, is a bill of sale for a negro girl named "Chinna" from Eli Cornwell.
  In the year 1799, on the 26th of December, Samuel Combest wed Sarah "Sallie" Dick. It is assumed their marriage took place in South Carolina since Samuel was still in Chester County one month prior to this date.
  Leaving their native state of South Carolina, their destination was Kentucky, where Sallie's parents, John and Peggie Wylie Dick, and Aunt Rebecca Wylie Adams and her husband Robert "Rob" had settled on Fishing Creek, Pulaski County, Kentucky.
  Samuel and Sallie took residence on the 124-acre tract of land granted to Samuel Combest in 1800. This land on Fishing Creek was granted by the Commonwealth of Kentucky for settling and improving the vacant land of the Commonwealth. An additional 400 acres were received from the Commonwealth for agricultural improvement of the land. This parcel lay west of Fishing Creek on the headwaters of Pointer Creek, and was claimed in Pulaski County Court by Samuel Combest on 26 December, 1803.
  The original 124-acre tract, granted in December 1800 and recorded in Frankfort, Kentucky on 2 September, 1802, was surveyed in 1807. It was described as follows:
       In the county of Pulaski west of Fishing Creek on the headwaters of      Pointer Creek of said Fishing Creek and bounded as follows to wit,      beginning on a Chestnut and thence west 5 poles to a Sugar tree and
                  Dogwood. From the Dogwood south 55, east 300 poles to a Dogwood.  south 33, west 60 poles to a Poplar and Ash, north 63, west 230      poles to the beginning.
  Samuel met the eligibility requirements of the grant, being possessed of family, over 21 years of age, and a bona fide settler on the land one year before taking possession.
  Samuel and Sallie raised ten children; seven boys and three girls. Their first children were boys; John born 8 March, 1801, William born 2 May 1802, and James born 27 January 1804, all in Pulaski County, Kentucky.
  Next came a daughter named Nancy, born 18 January 1806, followed by Samuel D., born 19 April 1808. Another daughter, Mary Eveline called "Polly
  , was born 8 January 1810 in neighboring Casey County, where the family had again acquired more land.
  The 150-acre Casey County tract, on the east fork of Goose Creek, was surveyed in 1820.
  Alexander was born the following year, in November of 1811. On the 27th of November 1813, Margaret Combest was born and probably named for her grandmother, Margaret Wylie Dick.
  Two days before Christmas, 23 December 1815, Wiley Combest arrived, followed by Archibald on 16 March 1818, the last child born to Samuel and Sallie Dick Combest.
  The Combest farm was very productive and provided for the large family. They raised corn, hay and flax as well as sheep, cattle, pigs, geese, and honey from the bee stands.
  The children learned to read and write as there were several books in the home, along with two volumes of law and the family Bible.
  As the children grew up and married, some left their native Kentucky to settle in the plains states. William and his wife Jane moved to Missouri in 1830, and Mary Eveline "Polly", by now Mrs. Levi Osborn, left the same year for the Illinois prairie and settled in Montgomery County.
  Sometime after 1837, James and Nancy Bowmer Combest departed for Illinois and also settled in Montgomery County where sister Polly Osborn had gone before them. Archibald had gone to Missouri by 1845/46 and later moved to Clay County, Illinois.
  On the 25th of July in the year 1844, Samuel Combest died in Russell County, Kentucky. He was seventy-one years old, and had been a strong, robust, healthy man during his lifetime.
   

Details of Samuel D.'s family with Sarah Dick