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- Joseph McCombs1789 - 1885
Joseph McCombs
- The following was partially written by the late Rev. R.C. Colmery, a son-in-law of Joseph:
- When Joseph was six or eight years of age his father and family removed to Washington County, Pa., [1789] where he settled on a farm about two miles from Canonsburg on Chartiers creek, near Coe’s mill and near what is known as the Morganza farm. While living there the family attended the church of Dr. McMillan, one mile south of Canonsburg. After a residence of six years in this place the family removed to Poland, Ohio, where they again settled on a farm.
- During this period Joseph belonged to a military company, and during the war of 1812 the whole company went into the service of their country. When this company had been organized with seven other companies into a regiment Joseph was appointed adjutant by the colonel. The regiment first reported at Cleveland, Ohio, and from tere sent to Lower Sandusky (now Fremont). While stationed at this point Joseph was appointed assistant paymaster. From this place they marched during the night on the ice, a distance of some twenty miles, to where Toledo now stands, and the next day started for Fort Meigs where they remained until their six months term of service had expired. While at Lower Sandusky Joseph volunteered to carry a message through from the commandant of that place to General Harrison who was then at Fort Meigs. His journey was during the night though he was exposed to great danger. He remained at Lower Sandusky for three months longer acting as receiving and issueing commissary for the army at that place. Some time during this three months, in the discharge of his official duties, he went on horseback up the Sandusky river to Uper Sandusky and again returned to his post.
- After he was honorably discharged from the service he returned to Poland and was employed as a clerk in the store of Judge Kirtland, and remained 18 months, and afterwards was employed by a firm in Pittsburgh for three years to sell goods on equal profits, and finally established a business for himself in Poland, on Yellow Creek, and continued the same until 1822, when he removed to Jeromeville, Wayne County, Ohio, and founded a mercantile business in that village. His marriage to Miss Mary Jane Stone at Beaverpoint, Pa., occurred July 8, 1823, after which they rode on horseback to Jeromeville. Joseph continued in business at that place until 1840 and lived on his farm near this village up to 1859. He then sold his farm and removed to Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh. His wife died May 28, 1864, after which he lived with his youngest daughters at the same place.
- Joseph and family were connected with the Presbyterian churches at Jeromeville and East Liberty. He was a member of the famous General Assemblies of 1837-8, a member of the same body which met at Nashville, Tenn., in 1855. While at Jeromeville it was his custom to ride to Philadelphia on horseback, make his purchases and return in the same manner, which took from five to six weeks to accomplish.
- Born in the same year that the Constitution of the United States was adopted, he lived under the administration of every President from Washington to Arthur. When but a small boy attending school at Pequea he witnessed a company of soldiers marching by the school house on their way to Western Pennsylvania to suppress the “whiskey rebellion.” His oldest brother was captain of the company. The latter years of his life were uneventful, for he never lost his interest in his fondness for young and sprightly society, nor his scrupulous exactness in money matters. He obtained a pension for his military services and almost to the last presented himself at the pension office on the day payment was due. He carried in his pocketbook a slip of paper which enumerated no less than thirteen narrow escapes from death. The summons came to him at last while seated in his chair, whith bowed head upon his breast he slept the last sleep, and it was the final passing away of the children of John and Elizabeth McCombs.
- Ward, John Clark. John McCombs family from 1747 to 1897. (Chicago, Illinois: The McCombs Family, 1897), Page 10, 63.
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