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Thomas M. Coombs (Grant County, Kentucky, deputy sheriff, clerk, cavalry captain (CSA))

b. 1839?

Grant County, Kentucky, deputy sheriff, clerk, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of John D. Coombs and Almira Coombs. Married to Mary Louisa Lucas Coombs in December 1860. Father of John W. Coombs and Mary Coombs. Student in Anderson County, Kentucky in 1850. Household owned nine enslaved persons in Anderson County in 1850. Deputy sheriff in Grant County in 1861. Clerk in Grant County in 1863. Served in the 5th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a captain.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Anderson County, p. 238A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Anderson County, p. 109, p. 16 of microfilm.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Williamstown, p. 985.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Williamstown, p. 601B.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant, p. 10A.

Marriage Records: Kentucky Marriages, (Richmond, KY: Madison County Courthouse), film no. 001490815, p. 284.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Grant County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 84, (Accessed via ancestry.com).

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 33.

KYR-0001-020-1534.

Citation

Coombs, Thomas M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210540 (November 12, 2026).

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