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Twice-A-Week News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
1898

An Excellent Mechanic.

One of the best known and most successful mechanics in Ringgold county is that man of large frame and large heart, James McCOMBS. Mr. McCOMBS came to Ringgold county five years ago and settled on a small farm in Liberty township near the place of his brother-in-law, Briggs WILBER.

Mr. McCOMBS, who is now 48 years of age, has been a general mason for over 30 years, having learned the trade from his father, who also was a master mason. In some of the best buildings in Mt. Ayr Mr. McCOMBS' work appears. He secured the contract for the substantial new brick jail erected last year and several times has made extensive repairs on the court house, his first work on that building being a very difficult job of repairing the foundation at the southeast corner. The masonry in the residences of M. L. BEVIS and John HORNE and at the Mt. Ayr bank, is a product of Mr. McCOMBS' labors.

NOTE: James McCOMBS was born on March 17, 1847, and died October 11, 1902. DeEtte McCOMBS was bron December 5, 1850, and died December 9, 1904. They were interred at Rose Hill Cemetery, Mount Ayr, Iowa.

Ringgold County Jail, 2009

Transcription, notes & photograph by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2010

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