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Town Mountain: Pioneer Families

The name implies a town atop a mountain. However, Town Mountain is a small rural community sprawled on the top of Brown's Fork Mountain just beyond the Hazard, Kentucky, city line. Most of the people who live here are related in some way or another. Town Mountain holds many pleasant childhood memories for me. We made many expeditions there on Sundays to visit my grandpa, who had a garden, and a big house surrounded by apple trees, and hogs and an old mule. It was a paradise for kids looking for adventure, a treasure house of lore and history for the writer in search of the past. When I think of Grandpa now, I feel his strength, determination, and independence—the characteristics that drive most of the inhabitants on Town Mountain. Their roots are entwined deep in a rich history of Town Mountain that stretches back for at least 125 years. The settling of Town Mountain is not recorded in history books. But if you were able to thumb through the pages of black history, two family names would continually surface—Olinger and Combs. As one story goes, brothers Jack and Bill Combs first settled the mountain shortly after the Civil War. Jack Combs was twenty years old when the war began and was a slave belonging to a Nicholas Combs in Virginia. Jack and Bill, the story continues, were awarded a piece of land on what is called Town Mountain today. This land was on a section called Lick Branch.