Notes for Sarah Garland COMBS

Notes for Sarah Garland COMBS

4 Mar 1876 (Southern Christian Advocate, Augusta, GA. Obituary, submitted
by Clement A. Evans)
Mrs. Sarah Garland EVE, daughter of Sterling Combs and Mildred
WINGFIELD, and wife of Dr. Joseph A.
EVE, was b. in Jackson Co GA June 6th, 1811; and died in Augusta,
Ga, March 4th, 1876. Her parents were
Virginians, who had quite early in life removed to Georgia. The
father after residing in Jackson county many
years, closed his long life of nearly eighty years at the house of
Dr. EVE, June 15, 1847, the mother having died
about nine years before. One of the daughters became the wife of Mr.
ANDREW, a young Methodist itinerant,
who later became Bishop Andres. On the first of April 1833, the
daughter was joined in happy marriage to Dr.
Joseph A. EVEN [?] in Augusta. God blessed the union with eleven
children, eight of whom survive their
mother.