I had this in my notes on Sam Combs... Sam was a Clock Repairer, He would leave Poems inside of clocks that he repaired. Here is one.... Here I Stand Both Day and Night To Tell The Time With all my might Do Though Example Take By Me and Serve Thy God as I Serve Thee. I Am old and worn as my face appears For I have worked on Time for a Hundred years. Many Have fallen Since my Race Beguan Many Will Fall Ere My Race is Run. I Have Buried The work with its Hopes & Fear In My Long Lone March of a hundred years. Lynda In a message dated 2/8/2011 8:00:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Jbfrancis6@aol.com writes: _Everything Dulcimer • View topic - Sam Combs of Vicco, KY (near Hazard, Viper, etc.)_ (http://www.everythingdulcimer.com/discuss/viewtopic.php?t=15355) I am pretty sure this Sam Combs is the Clock Maker who lived in Sassafras one mile above Vicco. I remember him very well. He is son of William Riley Combs and Sarah Francis. Ambrose Deaton was Deputy Sheriff when I was a kid hanging around the Show House in Vicco. Kinley Craft lived on Breeding Creek and was a famous Casket Maker. He made two for my family that I know of. He had all kinds of stuff made from wood in his yard. Once my Dad and I stopped to see what he had. Must have been my mothers anniversay or we had been gone from home to long. Because he bought a present for her that day. You want believe this, mother didn't either. He bought a tree limb with the bark skinned off and painted white. The limb was stuck down into a hole bored into a chunk of log. You know, to hold it up. Mounted on the limbs were birds that Kinley had carved out. But the unbelievable part is all the birds were painted polka-dot. Black and White polka-dots. I swear this is the truth. But McKinley Craft could make caskets. JB Francis __._,_.___ _http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyperry3/perrycokystuffpage.html_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyperry3/perrycokystuffpage.html) Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional _Change settings via the Web_ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KyPerryKnott/join;_ylc=X3oDMTJnYzFmcGhtBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzEyODE2Mzc4BGdycHNwSWQDMTc wNTA2MzEwNwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNzdG5ncwRzdGltZQMxMjk3MjEzMjQz) (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: _Switch delivery to Daily Digest_ (mailto:KyPerryKnott-digest@yahoogroups.com?subject=Email Delivery: Digest) | _Switch to Fully Featured_ (mailto:KyPerryKnott-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com?subject=Change Delivery Format: Fully Featured) _Visit Your Group _ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KyPerryKnott;_ylc=X3oDMTJldmdrMmhoBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzEyODE2Mzc4BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2MzEwNwRzZW MDZnRyBHNsawNocGYEc3RpbWUDMTI5NzIxMzI0Mw--) | _Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use _ (http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/) | _Unsubscribe _ (mailto:KyPerryKnott-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscribe) __,_._,___