John Leslie Combs
and Margaret Trotter

John Leslie Combs (of "Babel") b: 28 NOV 1793 Clark Co., KY d 22 Aug 1881 Clark Co KY; occupation, soldier, attorney, legislator, KY state auditor; military, War of 1812 Captain in command of General Benjamin Harrison; s/o Benjamin Combs and Sarah Richardson. John Leslie Combs m. 1 Sept 1818 Lexington, Fayette Co KY to Margaret Trotter b 11 Mar 1799 Lexington Fayette Co KY d 22 Jan 1844 buried Old Episcopal Burying Ground, Lexington KY (5 infants buried beside her), d/o George Trotter and Sarah Unknown. Children of Leslie Combs and Margaret Trotter;

i. Franklin Combs b: 17 NOV 1821 d 31 Dec 1844 Louisiana (murdered).

ii. Alfred Howard Combs b: 1823 in Lexington, Fayette Co., Ky. d 1825 Lexington, Fayette Co KY

iii. Isabella Leslie "LaBelle" Combs b: ABT 1826 m. Sanders Deweese Bruce. Child; 1). Mary Thornton Bruce b about 1847 m. Alvah Hunt Doty b 27 Jul 1854

iv. Mary Combs b: ABT 1826 m. Alexander John Mitchell Jr b 1822 d 1857; occupation, US Navy officer; eductation, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD s/o Alexander John Mitchell and Elizabeth "Betsy" Allen.

v. Leslie Combs Jr. b: 1831 d 1836

vi. John Tilford Combs b: ABT AUG 1833 in Lexington, Fayette Co., Ky d Nov 1834 Lexington, Fayette Co KY

vii. Howard Tilford Combs (Colonel) b: 19 APR 1835 d 16 Jul 1880 m. Mary Eleanor Loud b 18 Jul 1836 d 9 Dec 1911. Child; 1). Mary Combs b 9 Feb 1865 m. W. E Hudson.

viii. Elizabeth R. Combs b: 1839 d 1841.

John Leslie Combs and
Mary Elizabeth Brownell

John Leslie Combs (of "Babel") b: 28 NOV 1793 Clark Co., KY d 22 Aug 1881 Clark Co KY; occupation, soldier, attorney, legislator, KY state auditor; military, War of 1812 Captain in command of General Benjamin Harrison; s/o Benjamin Combs and Sarah Richardson. John Leslie Combs m. 11 Apr 1849 Manville, Providence Co RI to Mary Elizabeth Brownell b 16 Jun 1823 Little Compton, Newport Co, RI d 10 Aug 1857 Lexington, Fayette Co KY d/o Jonathon Brownell and Elizabeth Hall Simmons. Children of John Leslie Combs and Mary Elizabeth Brownell;

i. Leslie Combs III (US Ambassador) b 31 Jul 1852 Lexington, Fayette Co KY d 18 Nov 1940 Lexington, Fayette Co KY; occupation, diplomat, tobacco grower, thoroughbred horseman, US Minister to Guatemala and Honduras under President Theodore Roosevelt, Minister to Peru under President Taft; m. 18 Oct 1876 to Mary Cornelia "Mayme" Swigert b 29 Dec 1856 d 24 Nov 1926 Lexington, Fayette Co KY d/o Daniel Weisiger Swigert and Annette Magdalen Brodhead.

ii. Elizabeth B Combs