When Elizabeth Holcomb was born on 9 July 1736, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Capt Nathaniel Holcombe III, was 39 and her mother, Thankful Hayes, was 36. She married Lt Moses Dibble on 14 September 1756, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 4 March 1812, in Granby, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Granby, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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English (Surrey and Sussex): habitational name from any of several places called Holcombe (Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Oxfordshire, Somerset), from Old English hol ‘hollow’ + cumb ‘valley’.
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