Catherine Wallace Coombs was one of the four daughters of McCasland Wallace and Catherine Stuart. Her father was born on the ship bringing his Irish immigrant parents and older siblings to America in 1773, and named after the ship's captain, Captain McCasland.
The family was very affluent in South Carolina, where Catherine Wallace was born. Her brother, Alexander Stuart Wallace (1810-1893), would serve as a member of the South Carolina State House of Representatives and the US House of Representatives.
Catherine married John Coombs in 1833 in South Carolina. The Chickasaw Cession had occurred in north Mississippi the year before, and settlers began arriving in these newly opened lands in the newly formed territory of Tippah County MS. "Tippah" in Chickasaw means "the border." Catherine's husband John Coombs first staked a claim on 3000 acres along the Tippah River in 1837, then returned home to SC to rear his family. He returned permanently In January 1848 with Catherine and their children.
Catherine's married sister Mary Wallace and Mary's husband Thomas Bratton were also in the process of removing from York, SC to Tippah County MS, around this time, although both have died before 1850. Catherine's orphaned nieces and nephews, Mary's children, appear in a household together on the 1850 Tippah County MS census, same district as Catherine and husband and their children. One of those orphaned nephews, Elijah Patton Bratton, will eventually move with a group of families from Tippah County to northern Texas to settle in that area. Elijah Patton Bratton then returns temporarily to Tippah County MS during the Civil War, to fight in the same Mississippi Confederate regiment with his Coombs cousin and Bratton brothers.
Catherine and her husband John Coombs have 11 children, of whom six live to adulthood. Two of their sons fight for the Confederacy, and one dies from pneumonia during the Civil War in Virginia. According to a newspaper obituary/tribute published after John's death, they were exemplary and influential members of the M.E. Church, South, from the time they arrived in Tippah County until their deaths. A transcript of the obituary, written by their family physician, is provided in her husband's Find-A-Grave memorial.
Catherine's son John Thomas Coombs built a house in 1867 that remains in existence and still owned by Coombs family descendants as of 2010, who have renovated it and moved it from the original site. There is a "Coombs Home Antique Store" with video ads on youtube posted as recently as 2023.
The family was very affluent in South Carolina, where Catherine Wallace was born. Her brother, Alexander Stuart Wallace (1810-1893), would serve as a member of the South Carolina State House of Representatives and the US House of Representatives.
Catherine married John Coombs in 1833 in South Carolina. The Chickasaw Cession had occurred in north Mississippi the year before, and settlers began arriving in these newly opened lands in the newly formed territory of Tippah County MS. "Tippah" in Chickasaw means "the border." Catherine's husband John Coombs first staked a claim on 3000 acres along the Tippah River in 1837, then returned home to SC to rear his family. He returned permanently In January 1848 with Catherine and their children.
Catherine's married sister Mary Wallace and Mary's husband Thomas Bratton were also in the process of removing from York, SC to Tippah County MS, around this time, although both have died before 1850. Catherine's orphaned nieces and nephews, Mary's children, appear in a household together on the 1850 Tippah County MS census, same district as Catherine and husband and their children. One of those orphaned nephews, Elijah Patton Bratton, will eventually move with a group of families from Tippah County to northern Texas to settle in that area. Elijah Patton Bratton then returns temporarily to Tippah County MS during the Civil War, to fight in the same Mississippi Confederate regiment with his Coombs cousin and Bratton brothers.
Catherine and her husband John Coombs have 11 children, of whom six live to adulthood. Two of their sons fight for the Confederacy, and one dies from pneumonia during the Civil War in Virginia. According to a newspaper obituary/tribute published after John's death, they were exemplary and influential members of the M.E. Church, South, from the time they arrived in Tippah County until their deaths. A transcript of the obituary, written by their family physician, is provided in her husband's Find-A-Grave memorial.
Catherine's son John Thomas Coombs built a house in 1867 that remains in existence and still owned by Coombs family descendants as of 2010, who have renovated it and moved it from the original site. There is a "Coombs Home Antique Store" with video ads on youtube posted as recently as 2023.
Catherine Wallace Coombs was one of the four daughters of McCasland Wallace and Catherine Stuart. Her father was born on the ship bringing his Irish immigrant parents and older siblings to America in 1773, and named after the ship's captain, Captain McCasland.
The family was very affluent in South Carolina, where Catherine Wallace was born. Her brother, Alexander Stuart Wallace (1810-1893), would serve as a member of the South Carolina State House of Representatives and the US House of Representatives.
Catherine married John Coombs in 1833 in South Carolina. The Chickasaw Cession had occurred in north Mississippi the year before, and settlers began arriving in these newly opened lands in the newly formed territory of Tippah County MS. "Tippah" in Chickasaw means "the border." Catherine's husband John Coombs first staked a claim on 3000 acres along the Tippah River in 1837, then returned home to SC to rear his family. He returned permanently In January 1848 with Catherine and their children.
Catherine's married sister Mary Wallace and Mary's husband Thomas Bratton were also in the process of removing from York, SC to Tippah County MS, around this time, although both have died before 1850. Catherine's orphaned nieces and nephews, Mary's children, appear in a household together on the 1850 Tippah County MS census, same district as Catherine and husband and their children. One of those orphaned nephews, Elijah Patton Bratton, will eventually move with a group of families from Tippah County to northern Texas to settle in that area. Elijah Patton Bratton then returns temporarily to Tippah County MS during the Civil War, to fight in the same Mississippi Confederate regiment with his Coombs cousin and Bratton brothers.
Catherine and her husband John Coombs have 11 children, of whom six live to adulthood. Two of their sons fight for the Confederacy, and one dies from pneumonia during the Civil War in Virginia. According to a newspaper obituary/tribute published after John's death, they were exemplary and influential members of the M.E. Church, South, from the time they arrived in Tippah County until their deaths. A transcript of the obituary, written by their family physician, is provided in her husband's Find-A-Grave memorial.
Catherine's son John Thomas Coombs built a house in 1867 that remains in existence and still owned by Coombs family descendants as of 2010, who have renovated it and moved it from the original site. There is a "Coombs Home Antique Store" with video ads on youtube posted as recently as 2023.
The family was very affluent in South Carolina, where Catherine Wallace was born. Her brother, Alexander Stuart Wallace (1810-1893), would serve as a member of the South Carolina State House of Representatives and the US House of Representatives.
Catherine married John Coombs in 1833 in South Carolina. The Chickasaw Cession had occurred in north Mississippi the year before, and settlers began arriving in these newly opened lands in the newly formed territory of Tippah County MS. "Tippah" in Chickasaw means "the border." Catherine's husband John Coombs first staked a claim on 3000 acres along the Tippah River in 1837, then returned home to SC to rear his family. He returned permanently In January 1848 with Catherine and their children.
Catherine's married sister Mary Wallace and Mary's husband Thomas Bratton were also in the process of removing from York, SC to Tippah County MS, around this time, although both have died before 1850. Catherine's orphaned nieces and nephews, Mary's children, appear in a household together on the 1850 Tippah County MS census, same district as Catherine and husband and their children. One of those orphaned nephews, Elijah Patton Bratton, will eventually move with a group of families from Tippah County to northern Texas to settle in that area. Elijah Patton Bratton then returns temporarily to Tippah County MS during the Civil War, to fight in the same Mississippi Confederate regiment with his Coombs cousin and Bratton brothers.
Catherine and her husband John Coombs have 11 children, of whom six live to adulthood. Two of their sons fight for the Confederacy, and one dies from pneumonia during the Civil War in Virginia. According to a newspaper obituary/tribute published after John's death, they were exemplary and influential members of the M.E. Church, South, from the time they arrived in Tippah County until their deaths. A transcript of the obituary, written by their family physician, is provided in her husband's Find-A-Grave memorial.
Catherine's son John Thomas Coombs built a house in 1867 that remains in existence and still owned by Coombs family descendants as of 2010, who have renovated it and moved it from the original site. There is a "Coombs Home Antique Store" with video ads on youtube posted as recently as 2023.
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