Individual Details

1909 City Directory, Joplin, MO
Comstock, Wm E, Huckster, resides north side 19th, 5th east to Connecticut

1910 Census. Duenweg Prec, Joplin Twp, Jasper Co, MO, Hh 478
William E. Comstock, 21 married 2 years, b. Kansas, House Carpenter
Mary, wife, 18, one child, b. MO
Waneta H., dau, b. MO

12 Sep 1918 World War I Draft Registration
William Ervin Comstock of Sagninaw, Newton Co MO was age 33, b. Dec 5th 1884. Mary Comstock was his nearest relative. He was tall with Brown eyes, black hair.

When was William born?
1900 Census - b. Dec 1887, age 12
1910 Census - age 21, b. 1889
1918 Draft Registration 5 Dec 1884
Grave Marker, born 1888
1918 Death Certificate b. 5 Dec 1890.

Missouri Death Certificate 47022.
William E. Comstock of Joplin, Jasper Co Mo, died 1 Dec 1918 of pneumonia following influenza. He was born 5 Dec 1890 and was 28 years, 11 months, and 26 days old. He was married, his wife's given name Mary (she died of the flu the next day). Occupation listed as miner. His father was E. E. Comstock, born Kansas; his mother Nannie Davis, born Missouri. E. E. Comstock of Joplin was the informant. He was buried Saganaw Cemetery.

His grave marker has the year of his birth as 1888

Joplin News Herald, Monday, 2 Dec 1918
Both Parents Die: Four Orphans Left
William E. Comstock, 28 years of age and his wife, Mary Comstock, 26 years of age, will be buried side by side at Saginaw cemetery tomorrow afternoon. Four little girls were made orphans this morning when their mother died less than twenty-four hours after their father had passed away.
The Comstocks lived on a small dairy farm one and one-half miles east of Main Street on Twentieth.
Mr. Comstock became delirious and left his bed yesterday morning, runing to the barn, where he fell dead. With the sick wife in the house the four children, the oldest of whom is serious ill, and the aged parents of Mrs. Comstock. Neither Mrs. Comstock's mother nor little daughter are expected to recover. Of the entire family, the aged father, 83 years old, was the only person able to attend, in a measure, to the wants of the others. A nurse was secured by neighbors yesterday afternoon, before the death of Mrs. Comstock.
The father and mother were both stricken with influenza some days ago, the father passing away at 7 o'clock Sunday morning and the mother at 2:30 o'clock this morning. A double funeral service will be held at the graveside in Saginaw cemetery at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Mr. & Mrs. Comstock are survived by their four little daughters, the oldest of whom is under ten years of age. Mr. Comstock's parents, Mr. & Mrs. E. E. Comstock, and one brother, Mrs. Comstock's parents, Mr. & Mrs. George W. Wolff, three sisters, Maude, Jesse & Lois Wolff, of Joplin and one brother, Fred C. Wolff, of Washington....page cut off here.

Missouri Death Certificate 47021
Mary Comstock died 2 Dec 1918 of pneumonia following the flu. She was born 18 Mar 1892 and was 26 years, 8 months, and 14 days. She was the widow of William E. Comstock [by one day]. Her father was George G. Wolff, born Illinois; her mother Dora E. Wilson, also born Illinois. Mr. Wolff of Joplin was the informant. She was burined Saganaw Cemetery.

Missouri Death Certificate 46964
Jauneta Comstock died 21 Dec 1918 of pneumonia following the flu. She was born 14 Jul 1903 and was 10 years, 5 months old. Her father was Will Comstock, born Greenfield, MO; her mother was Mary Wolf. Nancy J. Comstock, her grandmother, was the informant. She was buried the next day, Saginaw, Mo.

There were three other daughters - Pauline, Margaret, and Mildred - that were raised by their Comstock grandparents. Mary Wolff Comstock's parents also died during the flu epidemic. G. G. Wolf died 9 Dec 1818; Dora Ellen Wolf had died on December 5th.

Birth	5 Dec 1887	Missouri
Marriage	5 May 1908	Neosho, Newton County, Missouri - Mary Rose Wolff
Death	1 Dec 1918	Missouri

Spouse	Mary Rose Wolff (1892 - 1918)
Child	Helen Juanita Comstock (1909 - 1918)
Child	Pauline Hope Comstock (1910 - 1994)
Child	Mildred Elaine Comstock (1914 - 1971)
Child	Margaret Ruth Comstock (1916 - 2003)

Father	Elonzo Ervan Comstock (1866 - 1933)
Mother	Nancy Jane Davis (1871 - 1960)
Sibling	Elonzo Alexander Comstock (1895 - 1950)
Sibling	Living