Individual Details

1850 Census. Breathitt Co, KY, Hh 247
Benjn Combs, 57, b. TN
Patsy, 48
Elvira, 9
Maranda, 9


1860 Census. Dist 1, Breathitt, KY
Thomas Johnson, 86, b. VA (her father)
Martha Combs, 60, b. TN

1870 Census. Prec 7, Breathitt, KY, Hh 107, next door to Isaac Terry (surely a son)
Martha Combs, age 68, keeping house and farming, b. NC, she can't read or write

Martha was counted twice in 1880:
1880 Breathitt Co KY Census, Jetts Creek
HH 266-270
Thomas JOHNSON 50, b. KY
Marandy 40, b. KY (daughter of Benjamin Combs)
Daniel 22, son
Martha 17, dau
Shelby 13, son
Fannie 12, dau
Thomas 10, son
Marandy 7, dau
Annie 5, dau
Emily 2, day
Martha TERRY, 38, boarder, b. VA, married as married
Martha COMBS, 83, b. KY, mother-in-law; boarder, suffers from old age, marked as disabled

Note: Martha "Patsy" JOHNSON Terry was the 1st wife of Thomas TERRY and widow of Benjamin COMBS, died 11 Feb 1858, Breathitt KY. Marandy (a.k.a. Miranda) COMBS Johnson was their daughter. Martha is apparently listed twice on this census. Below she is also listed with grandson Miles TERRY.

1880 Census. Crocketsville, Breathitt, KY, Hh 405
(Hh 404 was his father Isaac Terry)
Miles TERRY, 33
Lourana 29, 29, wife
Charles 4, son
Mary J. 3, dau
Minerva 1, dau
Martha COMBS, age 79, Grandmother, widowed, suffers from Old age, b. KY, father b. NC, mother b. Maryland

Notes: Martha COMBS is an apparent double entry. Miles TERRY is the son of Isaac & Barbara GABBARD Terry. Isaac was the son of Thomas TERRY and Martha "Patsy" JOHNSON. According to an interview of g-grandson of Thomas and Patsy, Leonard CAUDILL by Shirley Caudill Evans in 1991, Thomas TERRY left his wife Patsy and started another family in Floyd Co., Ky. Patsy later married Ben COMBS. (1850 Breathitt KY Census, District 2, HH221-221)

Spouse	Thomas Terry (1797 - 1852)
Child	Samuel W. Terry (1829 - )
Child	Isaac Terry (1820 - 1907)

Spouse

Benjamin Combs ( - 1858)