Individual Details
MIRANDA JANE BROWN
(12 Jun 1842 - 5 Feb 1912)
1870 Census gives Miranda's birthplace as Arkansas, but this is curious unless the family did live in Searcy Co, AR for a year or two. Murphy is on a Searcy Co tax list in 1841. Her parents married in St. Francois County MO and her father died at Rocky Comfort in McDonald County MO - don't know exactly when they moved back to Missouri, but all the rest of their children were born in Missouri. Both 1850 & 1860 Censuses also show Miranda as born in Arkansas. A possible brother to Miranda's father - Ezekiel Brown, enumerated two households away in 1850, also shows two sons one a year older than Miranda and one a year younger - both born in Arkansas. I suspect the families moved south into Arkansas for a brief time and returned to Missouri.
1900: Miranda born in AR. father in KY, mother in MO.
Marandia J. and Thomas Comstock, her husband, of Crawford Co AR are found on a deed in McDonald Co MO Deed book G, p.605 - giving title to her niece, Laura Isbell Brown of Barry Co MO, for $1, a parcel of land in McDonald Co that is no doubt Miranda's, inherited from her father.
Buried in the Comstock Cemetery along with her husband and children Den, Cornelia, Piney and Tack. Her inscription reads:
A good wife,
A loving mother
A devoted Christian
A friend to the
Distressed.
Events
| Birth | 12 Jun 1842 | Searcy County, Arkansas |  | ||
| Marriage | 17 May 1859 | Missouri - ELIJAH THOMAS "Tom" COMSTOCK | | ||
| Death | 5 Feb 1912 | Crawford County, Arkansas | |
Families
| Spouse | ELIJAH THOMAS "Tom" COMSTOCK (1838 - 1917) |
| Child | JAMES MONROE "MON" COMSTOCK (1860 - 1928) |
| Child | Theodore Comstock (1861 - 1862) |
| Child | Randolph "Dolph" Comstock (1865 - 1924) |
| Child | Green Comstock (1868 - 1868) |
| Child | Minnie Comstock (1870 - 1944) |
| Child | Clinden "Den" Comstock (1873 - 1912) |
| Child | Cornelia Comstock (1875 - 1893) |
| Child | Hardy "Tack" Comstock (1877 - 1936) |
| Child | Piney Comstock (1882 - 1886) |
| Father | MURPHY BROWN (1816 - 1863) |
| Mother | REBEKAH POINDEXTER JONES (1822 - 1912) |
| Sibling | Richard Jones Brown (1837 - 1839) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Bridget Brown (1839 - 1839) |
| Sibling | William Clayborn Brown (1840 - 1860) |
| Sibling | Ezekiel Wilson Brown (1843 - 1863) |
| Sibling | John Reed Brown (1845 - 1889) |
| Sibling | Nancy Emeline Brown (1847 - 1864) |
| Sibling | Mary Catherine Brown (1848 - 1864) |
| Sibling | Sarah Frances Brown (1850 - 1922) |
| Sibling | Joel Brown (1852 - 1852) |
| Sibling | Lemuel Green Brown (1855 - 1923) |
| Sibling | Monervia Magdalene Brown (1856 - 1857) |
| Sibling | Robert Thomas Brown (1858 - 1858) |
| Sibling | Rebekah Ann Brown (1860 - 1860) |
| Sibling | Eliza Isabel "Belle" Brown (1862 - 1934) |
Endnotes
1. Mary Jane Comstock, Compiler; Comstock-Haggard and Allied Families; (Chicago: Adams Press, 1973).
2. Transcribed by Jeania Moore Burns, US Census. 1870. Arkansas, Crawford County., Jasper Township. Birthplace as Arkansas.
3. US Census 1860 MO, McDonald County (NARA Microcopy 653; Roll 633; LDS Microfilm #0803633).
4. US Census 1850 MO, Newton County (Microcopy 432; Roll 408), Miranda, born in Arkansas.
5. Paul O. Barker, Bible records of Richard Jones, Murphy & Rebecca P. Brown, Family Group Sheets, census abstracts, correspondence and shared research. [Paul's wife was a descendant of Belle (Brown) Barnett.].
6. US Census 1900 AR, Crawford Co. (LDS Microfilm #1240056), Union Twp. p.227b Household 121.
7. Transcribed by Jeania Moore Burns, US Census. 1870. Arkansas, Crawford County., Jasper Twp; p.195; Dwelling 140..
8. Mary Jane Comstock, Compiler; Comstock-Haggard and Allied Families; (Chicago: Adams Press, 1973).
9. Paul O. Barker, Bible records of Richard Jones, Murphy & Rebecca P. Brown, Family Group Sheets, census abstracts, correspondence and shared research. [Paul's wife was a descendant of Belle (Brown) Barnett.].
10. Mary Jane Comstock, Compiler; Comstock-Haggard and Allied Families; (Chicago: Adams Press, 1973), date of death as 5 Feb 1912.
11. Compiled by Doris Stevenson West & Susan Stevenson Sevenburn, History in Headstones; A Complete Listing of all Marked Graves In Known Cemeteries of Crawford County, Arkansas. August 1970. No index. Arranged by cemetery. (Original c1970; The Press-Argus. Reprinted in paperback 1993, Old Van Buren Press; Van Buren, AR), Date of death given as 2/23/1918.
12. Grave Marker, Comstock Cemetery visited 25 Jun 1998.
13. Paul O. Barker, Bible records of Richard Jones, Murphy & Rebecca P. Brown, Family Group Sheets, census abstracts, correspondence and shared research. [Paul's wife was a descendant of Belle (Brown) Barnett.].