. The story of Anthony Coombs and his descendants . the fort, where he was topreach. While returning to the house for a forgottenBible, a party of spying Indians, seeing their oppor-tunity, rushed upon the family, killed the wife andthroe children, leaving two others—daughters—scalpedand bleeding. One of these lived to l)e twenty-oneyears old, but died from the scalp wound. The otherrecovered, raised a large family, and died at a good oldage. A son, John, with the help of his faithful dog,escaped. He also became a Baptist minister, and settlednear Cincinnati, Ohio. 119 We were young once, but
. The story of Anthony Coombs and his descendants . the fort, where he was topreach. While returning to the house for a forgottenBible, a party of spying Indians, seeing their oppor-tunity, rushed upon the family, killed the wife andthroe children, leaving two others—daughters—scalpedand bleeding. One of these lived to l)e twenty-oneyears old, but died from the scalp wound. The otherrecovered, raised a large family, and died at a good oldage. A son, John, with the help of his faithful dog,escaped. He also became a Baptist minister, and settlednear Cincinnati, Ohio. 119 We were young once, but now her hair and mine issilvered oer and they begin to call us the oldfolks. But we are lovers yet, and we are determinedto enjoy all the good cheer that our kind HeavenlyFather gives us, to be young in heart and spirit, and ifthese bodies do grow old and too feeble to be usefullyemployed, we will try to enjoy seeing others do theworlds work, while we wait in confident hope of some-thing better beyond. Farewell. WM. C. AND SARAH A. COOMBS. 120. C. AM) SaKAII a. LliiMISS. PART Ill i)r(|>; tlH^S(>^(Mio:illl as generations, togt^ther, and saves thenecessity of marking every name with an Ixponent toindicate the generation. It has th(i minor disadvantageof some rej)etition. Make yonrself famihar with themethod; tlien you will have no dilYiculty in tracing thelists. You will see that ancestor Anthony, his children andgrandchildren, are given first. Then all lines that aretraced down to the present time are grouped under thesons of Anthony, and in the order of their hirth. Forexample, all the descendants of the first son, Peter, aregiven first; then those of the second son, Anthony, aregiven next, and so on. In carrying out the various lines, heads of familiesare given in Small Capitals. Under these are givenall minor notices, hut longer sketches are referred toand given under th
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