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The County of Posey was established in 1814  from Knox, Warrick and Gibson County.  Warrick was created from Knox in 1813, along with Gibson County.   Knox was created  from the Northwest Territory in 1790.  The county seat is located in Mount Vernon, Indiana.

Notes: Martha Ann Combs Rachel was the d/o Thomas and Ann (ANDERSON?) Combs of Allen Co KY. By 1860 she was in Gibson Co IN with her brother, Peter Anderson Combs. (See also below)

pg 135
ANDERSON
Peter 1748
97y 8-5-1845
Revolutionary Soldier
[BTM] Peter ANDERSON was formerly from Allen Co., KY in early 1800's records.

COMBE (2nd source for cemetery shows COMBS)
Anna 8-3-1800
57y 4m 11d 12-14-1857
[BTM] Anna B. ANDERSON COMBS was the wife of Thomas COMBS of Allen Co., KY, Sumner Co., TN and Gibson Co, IN.  Their son Peter Anderson COMBS was my Great Great Grandfather who married Kesiah Luanna (Lancaster) in Allen Co., KY his boyhood home.  Great Great Great Grandmother Anna B. COMBS is buried next to her father Peter ANDERSON a Revolutionary Soldier.  Peter Anderson COMBS was f/o Albert Grant COMBS who married Hulda Mae PROBASCO and their daughter Birdie Lorena COMBS married Freddie Franklin HOISINGTON of Kay Co, OK, Logan Co., OK and Pottawatomie Co., OK.  Their daughter Lorena Pearl HOISINGTON was my mother who Married Vernon Estell TOTTY, s/o Green Whitfield and Sarah Ellen YANDELL TOTTYof Montague Co. TX and Sebastian Co., AR.

1859  05 Apr  (Allen Co KY Book L:407-8) Valentine & Martha Ann RACHELS [of Posey Co IN] to Peter A. Combs… four hundred acres patented to Peter ANDERSON and conveyed by said ANDERSON to Ann B Combs containing one hundred and seventy four acres more or less. Which said undivided half of said tract of land desended to said Martha Ann RACHELS as one of the heirs at Law of said Ann B. Combs and James W. Combs........" . see below deed transcription.

Notes: Peter Anderson Combs, b 1830, KY, was s/o Thomas Combs of Allen Co, KY.. The death certificate of Albert Grant Combs, s/o Peter Anderson & Louanna LANCASTER Combs, indicates he was born in Posey Co IN in 1869.

Deed Book L-407 Allen County, Kentucky
RACHEL )
   TO       )
COMBS  )
This indenture witnessed that Valentine RACHELS and Martha Ann RACHELS in consideration of one hundred and fifty Dollars to them paid by Peter A. COMBS.  The receipt  thereof is hereby acknowledged,  do hereby Grant bargin Sell and Convey to the said Peter A. Combs his heirs and assigns forever.  The following real restate in Allen County and State of Kentucky, as described as follows to wit:  the undivided one half of all that tract as patent of land  Laying and being on the waters of RUFF [ROUGH] CREEK in said County and State being all that tract part of a Survey of four hundred acres patented to Peter ANDERSON and conveyed by said ANDERSON to Ann B. COMBS containing one hundred and seventy four acres more or less.  Which said undivided half of said tract of land desended to said Martha Ann RACHELs as one of the heirs at Law of said Ann B. COMBS and James W. COMBS - Together with all the privileges and assurtenances[sic] to the Same belonging.  To have and to hold the same to the said Peter A. COMBS his heirs and assign forever the  grantors their heirs and assigns hereby covenanting with the Grantee his heirs and assigns that the title So conveyed is lean free and unincumbered that they are lawfully sized of the premises afore said as of a sure perfect and undesposable Estate of enheritance in fee simple and they will warrant and defend the same against all Claims Whatsoever to within thereof the Said Valentine RACHELS and Martha Ann RACHELS have here unto set their hands and seal this fifth day of April 1859.
         ) Valentine RACHELS
State of Indiana County  ) Martha Ann RACHELS
Personally appears before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for Said County Valentine RACHELS and Martha Ann RACHELS his wife to Grantor in the above conveyance and acknowledged the same to be thier voluntry act and deed Witness my hand and seal this fifth April 1859.
         ) John THOMAS Justice of the peace
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continued on page 408 Deed book
The State of Indiana Posey County } set
I, Turner NELSON, Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for the County of Posey afore said do hereby certify that John THOMAS Esq whose certificate of acknowledgement appears to the instrument of writing to which this is attached was at the time of making said certificate to wit: the fifth day of April 1850 and acting Justice of the peace within and for said County of Posey duly elected commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his offical act and that the Signature suposting to be his is Genuine.  In witness of Which I hereunto affix the Seal of Said Court and Subscribe my name at Mount Vernon this 12th day of April AD 1859.  ) T. NELSON Clerk
     ) W. NELSON Deputy
State of Indiana Posey County }
I Michael F. BURKE, Judge of the third Judicial Circuit in the State of Indiana of which Circuit the County of Posey in said State is a part and Judge of the Circuit Court of said County and State certify that Turner NELSON was on the 12 of April 1859 & is now the Clerk of said Circuit Court duly qualified & commissioned as such that his Signature to the above Certificate is Genuine that he has the proper Custody of the Seal of said Court and that his Certificate as above is in due form of Law.  Witness my hand and signature hereto set at Mount Vernon in Said County & State this 13th day of April 1859.
    } M. F. BURKE
    } Judge 3rd Judicial Court Indiana
Allen County Kentucky
I, Clerk of the Allen County Court certify that this deed given Valentine RACHELS & his wife Martha Ann to Peter A. COMBS together with the new certificate therein endorsed was this day filed for Record in my office and the same & this certificate is Recorded in my office this 16 day of April 1859
    } J. N. Fitzpatrick, cc
Notes:  Martha (Combs) RACHEL was the sister of Peter Anderson COMBS and daughter of Thomas and Anna (Anderson) COMBS.  Peter Anderson COMBS, Sr; <Albert Grant COMBS; <Birdie Lorena (Combs) HOISINGTON; <Lorena Pearl (Hoisington) & Vernon E.TOTTY, Sr.; <Birdie (Totty) McNutt.

1860 Posey Co, IN Census (partial extraction)
Posey County, Point Township, PO Mount Vernon
page 832
June 4, 1860
27 27 Alexander MCCRARY 39 M farmer 1500, 1000 SC
Elizabeth " 50 F IN
Mary J. 15 F IN
Thomas 10 M IN
Sarah E. 6 F IN
Nancy A. HANCOCK 19 F IN
James Combs 23 M farmhand IN
Joseph REESE 22 M do IN

Notes: In Oct this same year, the above James Combs m the above Mary Jane McCRARY (a.k.a. McCREARY)?. A James COMBS is found on 1850 census age 17 with Anna COMBS and Peter A. COMBS in Gibson County, IN.   Possibly the brother of Peter Anderson COMBS and son of Anna (Anderson) COMBS??  research and documentation still is progress because his father is listed as J. W. COMBS. see below.

1860 8 Oct.  Posey Co, IN Marriages.Combs, James married Mary Jane MCCRARY

1860 8 Oct. Mt. Vernon, Posey Co, IN. Married: James Combs (s/o J. W. Combs) and Mary Jane McCREARY (Henry Co, MO Civil War Pension File of James Combs)

Notes: Is this James Combs kin to Martha RACHELS Combs who had a brother, James W., also b ca 1837? Or was he kin to Jesse & Sarah Combs Hinds or someone else entirely? (He named a daughter, Martha, b 1875, after Martha Combs Rachel?) According to his 1914 Henry Co, MO death certificate, he was b 30 Jan 1833 in Indiana, s/o J. W. Combs & (don't know), both b in Indiana. He is not found on the 1870 Posey census, but the 1940 Osage Co, OK death certificate of his daughter, Mary Ann Combs Steele, states that she was b in Linville, Warrick Co, IN in 1868.

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