George Alexander McComb and Ellen Smith

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Husband George Alexander McComb ^{1 2}

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           Born: 18 May 1838 - Blairsville, Indiana Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1909
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: James H. McComb (1813-1896) 2 3 4 5
         Mother: Martha Calhoun (Abt 1816-1881) 2 3

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       Marriage: 1862 6

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Wife Ellen Smith ⁶

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            AKA: Ella Smith 1
           Born: 1844
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           Died: 1898
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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Children

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1 M William C. McComb ^{1 6}

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         Spouse: Lizzie McGregor (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 1881 6

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2 M Lawrence Melvin McComb ¹

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            AKA: Melville McComb 6
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         Spouse: Belle Brisan (      -      ) 1

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3 M James Forest McComb ^{1 6}

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           Born: 29 Nov 1868 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Sarah L. Vandevort (      -      ) 7
           Marr: 17 Jul 1893 7

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4 M Francis Albert McComb ^{1 6}

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           Born: 12 Sep 1870 - Pennsylvania
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           Died: 25 Feb 1953
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         Spouse: Lillie Small (      -      ) 1

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5 F Ora McComb ^{1 6}

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         Spouse: Reno Guisewitt (      -      ) 1

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6 F Margaret "Maggie" McComb ^{1 6}

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         Spouse: C. G. Ifft (      -      ) 1

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7 M George Edward "Eddie" McComb ^{1 6}

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8 F Minta "Mintie" McComb ^{1 6}

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         Spouse: John Wragg (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - George Alexander McComb

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He enlisted in the first company that was raised in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, at the beginning of the Civil War. This company was called the Brady Alpines and the Armstrong County History says of it: "The Brady Alpines were mustered into the three months service April 22, 1861, and attached to the 9th Pa. Vol. Inf., Col. Longnecker."
He later resided in Oil City, Pennsylvania, and he was mail agent on the Allegheny Valley Railroad.

His boyhood years were passed near Kittanning, Pennsylvania. During the Civil War he served in Company B, Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was leader of the cornet band of Kittanning when the war broke out, and at first call his band led the first regiment to leave Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and reaching Pittsburgh he sent his cornet home, enlisted in the regiment and went on to the front. In later life he was a member of Hays Post, No. 3, Grand Army of the Republic. In the early fifties he drove a stage coach and also went on horseback, often being chased by wolves, carrying the mail for his father, and entered the mail service for himself under the United States government in 1868. He was assigned to the Oil City-Pittsburgh route, and was injured in a railroad accident in May, 1892. He was then assigned superintendent of railway mail service in the Pittsburgh Post Office. Prior to this accident he held the position of chief railway mail agent between Pittsburgh and Buffalo, and he stood second in all his examinations while in the mail service.

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General Notes: Wife - Ellen Smith

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from Armstrong Co, PA

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1648.

2 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 73.

3 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 538.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 436.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1647.

6 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 74.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1649.