Mary Jane Combs

This is my great grandmother Mary Jane Combs holding ME! (Linda Wilson Brooks)

This has to Mary Jane holding her granddaughter, Carol Marie McKinley Wilson with Bob standing beside her.  Mary Jane only had 4 grandchildren but she was never close to them.  She didn't really have a relationship with her daughter.  Grandma, Ruth Gray, said she was always jealous of her dad's first wife (who was dead when she married him) and was always mourning Annabelle.  Grandma said she would take her to the cemetery and she would always cry.  

Mary Jane Combs was born in Waverly, Ohio June 22, 1885 and died May 29, 1962 in Omaha, NE.  
Mary Jane's father: Charles Lewis Combs, Born Aug 1842 in Pike Ohio and died May 27, 1920.  He was an army sergeant from Aug 12, 1861 to Feb 14, 1865 in Company H 36 Ohio.  It was listed that he suffered from chronic diarrhea. 
I found this info about the Civil War: 
Ohio units took part in all of the major battles and campaigns of the Civil War including Antietam, the Atlanta campaign, the Bermuda Hundred campaign, Carnifex Ferry, Chancellorsville, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Cold Harbor, Forts Henry and Donelson, Franklin, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Harper's Ferry, Lookout Mountain, First and Second Manassas (Bull Run), Nashville, the Peninsular campaign, Perryville, the siege of Petersburg and the Battle of the Crater, Sherman's march to the sea, Shiloh, Spotsylvania Court House, Stones River (Murfreesboro), Vicksburg, and the Wilderness.

Here is the web address to see an entry for Charles Lewis Combs:  http://www.archive.org/stream/ohiowarroster03howerich#page/678/mode/2up

Charles Lewis Combs was married twice.  His first wife was Amanda (1851-1881) and his 2nd wife was Ruth Ann Waldren or Waldron.  Ruth Ann Waldren was Mary Jane Combs's mother.  She lived in the same neighborhood as Amanda.  Charles would have been 43 when Mary Jane was born.  
Amanda and Charles had 5 children so these would be my great aunts and uncles: 
Thorton Presley Combs,Walter E., Bendenna, Willie H., Hattie E.  Charles had 3 children with Ruth Ann: Mary Jane, James and Wesley.  

Ruth Ann parents were: 
Father: William James Waldron, Born 1818
Mother: Mary Waldron, Born 1820

Charles Lewis Combs parents: 
Father: Robert Madison Combs Born 1-12-1811 in Loudoun County, Virginia and died June 6, 1899 in Pageville, Meigs Co, Virginia. 
Mother: Eliza H. Hunter Combs Born 6-4-1814 in Virginia and died 11-7-1890 in Meigs Co, Ohio.  Buried in Shipman Cemetery in Pagerville.
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Here is a list of deaths I found:

Chas L. Combs  May 27, 1921

Walter G or C or E Combs- July 13, 1920

William H. Combs Dept 1, 1948

Thornton P. Combs Jan 19, 1932

Dena Benjamin Combs Mar 18, 1939

Mother Ruth Ann Combs Feb 13, 1930

Anna Belle Wright Dec 27, 1936

Addie Combs October 7, 1949