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Note: Home in 1880 Bristol, Hartford, Connecticut Ervin Coombs Home in 1900: Pittsfield Ward 6, Berkshire, MA Irwin H printer single Home in 1920: Pittsfield Ward 3, Berkshire, MA Erwin H machinest married no wife Home in 1945 Miami, Dade, Florida (Florida census) Erwin
�b� �/b� The Berkshire Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Erwin H.'Combs,- 68, of Miami, Fla., resident and former Pittsfield printer who twice in his lifetime read newspaper accounts of his death, was very much alive when he called recently at The Eagle office with his bride of eight months. Combs, who made Ripley's "Believe It or Not" column, was reported to have drowned when he was 11, and later was reported by the St. Louis Globe Democrat, for whom he worked as a printer, as having succumbed after a serious illness of 10 weeks.
In the 1920 census he is living with his parents in Pittsfield and is listed as married name spelled Erwin.
Marriage is from Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001 Ancestry. com Alice is listed as Alice Helen Plampel
"Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915" Name: Irving Combs Gender: Male�tab� Birth Date: 12 May 1878 Birthplace: Pittsfield, Massachusetts�tab� Father's Name: Horace T�tab� Mother's Name:�tab�Lucinda Bowen
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