Individual Details
Horace Hawkins Comstock
(Abt 1807 - 15 Mar 1861)
His mother was likely Frieda Hawkins. Perhaps she died in childbirth or soon after.
Horace was engaged in Detroit & Chicago with Indian and military supply trade; moved to Michigan as a poineer of Kalamazoo County. He was the 1st Senator elected from that County; the town of Comstock was named for him.
After the death of his first wife, Horace appeared to live a rather unsettled life with a serious decline in the family forture. He apparently dispatched the children to live with far-flung relatives and friends. Sabina was sent to Whitewater, Wisconsin to live with her Aunt Recepha Comstock Tripp. Julia was left behind in Otsego in the care of her young stepmother who was living with her own parents, the Belchers, in 1850 - Horace was nowhere to be found in 1850. Julia later lived in Cooperstown, where she died a spinster. Eight-year-old Willie was sent to Corning, NY, to live with his uncles Daniel D. & Dwight L. Comstock - one a batchelor, the other childless. Fannie was adopted by Bissel Humphrey, a stageline propriertor of Kalamazoo - his will states she was his adopted daughter.
The 4th wife, Catherine, survived Horace.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1807 |  | |||
| Marriage | 7 Nov 1833 | Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York - Sarah Sabina Cooper | | ||
| Marriage | 16 Jul 1849 | Betsey A. Belcher | | ||
| Marriage | Louisa Elizabeth Graves | | |||
| Marriage | Abt 1860 | Catherine [Comstock] | | ||
| Death | 15 Mar 1861 | Ossining, Westchester County, New York | |
Families
| Spouse | Sarah Sabina Cooper (1810 - 1846) |
| Child | Sarah Sabina Comstock (1834 - 1918) |
| Child | Julia Hamilton Comstock (1840 - 1904) |
| Child | William Averill Comstock (1842 - 1868) |
| Child | Frances Oathwaite Comstock (1844 - ) |
| Spouse | Louisa Elizabeth Graves (1789 - 1860) |
| Spouse | Betsey A. Belcher (1832 - ) |
| Spouse | Catherine [Comstock] ( - ) |
| Father | William Comstock (1766 - 1833) |
| Mother | Living |
| Sibling | William Comstock (1801 - 1877) |
| Sibling | Rosepha Ann Comstock (1804 - ) |
| Sibling | Mary Ann Comstock (1805 - 1851) |
| Sibling | Daniel Dexter Comstock (1810 - ) |
Endnotes
1. John S. Gray, "Will Comstock, Scout," Montana: The Magazine of Western History 20 (Summer 1970): 2-15.
2. John Adams Comstock of Del Mar, California, A History and Genealogy of the Comstock Family in America, (Los Angeles, CA: The Commonwealth Press, Inc., 1949).
3. John S. Gray, "Will Comstock, Scout," Montana: The Magazine of Western History 20 (Summer 1970): 2-15.
4. John Adams Comstock of Del Mar, California, A History and Genealogy of the Comstock Family in America, (Los Angeles, CA: The Commonwealth Press, Inc., 1949).
5. John S. Gray, "Will Comstock, Scout," Montana: The Magazine of Western History 20 (Summer 1970): 2-15.
6. John Adams Comstock of Del Mar, California, A History and Genealogy of the Comstock Family in America, (Los Angeles, CA: The Commonwealth Press, Inc., 1949), Family 501. William Comstock (7th Generation).