Jessie May Mae Combs

1901 - 1977  (75 years)

• Name	Jessie May Mae Combs  [1]
  Birth	13 Mar 1901	Cambridge, Henry, Illinois, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Burial	Feb 1977	Henry, Illinois, USA
  Death	8 Feb 1977	Davenport, Scott, Iowa USA   [1]
  Person ID	I2437	First tree
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2024

  
  

  Father	Edward Arthur Combs,   b. 2 Oct 1871, Henry, Illinois, USA d. 8 Jul 1943, Henry, Illinois, USA (Age 71 years)
  Mother	*Amy May Butterfield,   b. 22 Sep 1871, Braceville, Grundy County, Illinois; Per Obituary (See Notes) d. 14 May 1950, East Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	6 Feb 1895	Gardner, Grundy, Illinois, USA   [2]
  Family ID	F51055	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	*George Wilson Blair,   b. 23 Sep 1896, Orion, Henry, Illinois, USA d. 11 Nov 1961, Kewanee, Henry, Illinois, USA (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	18 Jun 1925	Cambridge, Henry, Illinois, USA   [1]
  Children	1. Richard G. Blair, Doctor,   b. 1 Jun 1927, Geneseo, Henry County, Illinois d. 2 Jun 1989, 63 Years Old; Henry County, Illinois (Age 62 years)   2. Ella Lenore Blair,   b. 28 Dec 1928, Geneseo, Henry County, Illinois d. 28 Dec 1928, Infant; Geneseo, Henry County, Illinois (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F50379	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2013

  
  

  Family 2	Rex O. Sylvester,   b. 20 Sep 1894, Nebraska, USA d. Mar 1974, Davenport, Scott, Iowa, USA (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	13 Mar 1966	Henry County, Illinois
  Family ID	F35692	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2013

  
  

• Notes

  Birth & death dates taken from photo of grave stone at Grace Cemetery,Henry County, Illinois on 18 Mar 2006 per SLJuhl, compiler. Photokept in Blair Family records. One of the sources of information provided on this family is by, Carol Combs of California 10 March 2006 Please contact compiler for further information. sljuhl1234@yahoo.com SOURCE: The Daily Dispatch, Wednesday, February 9, 1977, Page5-microfilm; Moline Public Library 41st Street, Rock Island County,Illinois 61265; Obtained by, S.L. Juhl RNBSC, Compiler on 25 February2009. “MRS. REXSYLVESTER CAMBRIDGE - Mrs. Rex(Jessie) Sylvester, 75, of Davenport, formerly of Cambridge, diedTuesday at St. Luke’s Hospital, Davenport. Services will be 1:30 p.m.Friday at Stackhouse Schueneman Funeral Home, Cambridge, where EasternStar services will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Memorials may be made tothe Heart Fund. Jessie Combs was born in Osco Twp. She marriedGeorge Blair in 1925 in Cambridge. He died in 1961. She married RexSylvester in 1966. He died in 1974. She was a rural grade schoolteacher and had been employed at the Moline Dispatch office inCambridge for several years. Survivors include two sons, Dr. RichardBlair, Huntington, Ind., and John Blair, Cambridge; 13 grandchildren,and a sister Mrs. Josephine Lough, Carbon Cliff.” Please check this: BURI: CONC husband George Wilson Blair & infant daughter Ella Lenore Blair

  
  

• Sources

  [S2760] The Daily Dispatch, Wednesday, February 9, 1977, Page 5-microfilm;Moline Public Library 41st Street, Rock Island County, Illinois 61265;Obtained by, S.L. Juhl RNBSC, Compiler on 25 February 2009 The Daily Dispatch, Wednesday, February 9, 1977, Page 5-mic, Jessie M. Combs Blair Sylvester Obituary. [S2764] Cambridge Chronicle Newspaper, July 15, 1943, Front Page, microfilm ;Obtained: 24 February 2009, Cambridge Library, Osco Township, HenryCounty, Illinois, Edward Arthur Combs Obituary, (Date: Obtained: 24 February 2009; Cambridge Chronicle Newspaper, July 15, 1943, Front Page, microfilm ;Obtained: 24 February 2009, Cambridge Library, Osco Township, HenryCounty, Illinois, Edward Arthur Combs Obituary (, Obtained: 24February 2009).).