• General Notes

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  [Br²derbund WFT Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Tree #0725, Date of Import: Apr 16, 2002]
  
  "Samuel Combest and His Descendants" book
  Thomas furnished the materials and, with the help of his neighbors, built
  the Combest School, District 59, in Russell County, Kentucky in the early
  1920's. The school is named for him. Thomas Combest's son-in-law, Lewis
  Emit Hammond (who married Nevad Combest) donated the land for the school.
  It still stands but is in disrepair. It is located in Russell County,
  Kentucky, on Route 910, a short distance from the Russell/Casey County
  line; a typical one-room school house. It has a double entrance in front,
  one for the boys and one for the girls, with a nice piece of land around
  it containing some very large oak trees. Records show that the Combest
  family was interested in education, going back to the time of Samuel
  Combest when he provided in his will for the education of his
  grandchildren who were left with him.
  Marsha Hammond, now Mrs. Noble E. Howard of Campbellsville, Kentucky, did
  her first teaching at the Combest School. Funds were raised by having pie
  suppers to fix up the schoolhouse. One of the things Marsha Hammond
  Howard did at that time was to have a sign made and hung at the school.
  The sign is still hanging.
  When the school was no longer in use (1940's), the property went back to
  Lewis Emit Hammond and he sold it to a man whose property was adjacent to
  the schoolhouse. Mr. Amos Gosser, Rural Route, Russell Springs, Kentucky,
  presently owns the Combest school and the land on which it is located. He
  attended the school as a boy and recalls carrying wood and water to the
  schoolhouse each day before class. Mr. Gosser's daughter resides with her
  family in a mobile home on the property next to the school at this time.
  It is hoped taht at sometime in the future the Combest school could be
  purchased and restored by members of the Combest family. It could then be
  used for the Combest reunion and/or a community center for meetings and
  picnics, or turned over to the State of Kentucky as a historical site.
  It would also be fitting to erect a monument on this property in memory
  of Samuel and Sallie Dick Combest and their children, as the land lies
  adjacent to that which is believed to be the property on which they lived
  and werhe they are most likely buried. We do not know the exact location
  of their graves and, therefore, they are unmarked. Also, some of the
  graves of the children of Samuel and Sallie Dick Combest are not known;
  some are known but unmarked.

Details of Thomas Marion's family with Susan Armilda Holder