Individual Details
Cornelia Comstock
(29 Jun 1875 - 12 Mar 1893)
John M. Mills, age 17, married Cordelia Comstock, age 14 on 16 Jul 1889. J. H. Branson, JP. License was issued 15 Jul 1889.
I have found her name as both Cordelia and Cornelia.
According to Homer Marshall of Uniontown, Cornelia and Mort were breaking a horse to ride and she was kicked in the head and died.
Buried in the Comstock Cemetery (age 17). Her husband is buried in the larger adjoining cemetery, next to Alice (Morton) Mills who was his mother.
There is a note in the manuscript file of John A. Comstock, that Cornelia's residence was Muskogee. This seems unlikely - perhaps her husband moved there for a time, but both are buried there in Crawford Co, AR. The place of residence was not in the book, so maybe J.A. Comstock also suspected this was an error.
Events
| Birth | 29 Jun 1875 | Arkansas |  | ||
| Marriage | 16 Jul 1889 | Crawford County, Arkansas - John Morton "Mort" Mills | | ||
| Death | 12 Mar 1893 | Crawford County, Arkansas | |
Families
| Spouse | John Morton "Mort" Mills (1871 - 1900) |
| Child | Omer Hiram Mills (1891 - 1964) |
| Father | ELIJAH THOMAS "Tom" COMSTOCK (1838 - 1917) |
| Mother | MIRANDA JANE BROWN (1842 - 1912) |
| Sibling | JAMES MONROE "MON" COMSTOCK (1860 - 1928) |
| Sibling | Theodore Comstock (1861 - 1862) |
| Sibling | Randolph "Dolph" Comstock (1865 - 1924) |
| Sibling | Green Comstock (1868 - 1868) |
| Sibling | Minnie Comstock (1870 - 1944) |
| Sibling | Clinden "Den" Comstock (1873 - 1912) |
| Sibling | Hardy "Tack" Comstock (1877 - 1936) |
| Sibling | Piney Comstock (1882 - 1886) |
Endnotes
1. Mary Jane Comstock, Compiler; Comstock-Haggard and Allied Families; (Chicago: Adams Press, 1973).
2. Mary Jane Comstock, Compiler; Comstock-Haggard and Allied Families; (Chicago: Adams Press, 1973).
3. Marriage Index: Arkansas, 1850-1900. CD #244 Family Tree Maker.
4. Oma Cole & Hazel Brown, Crawford County Arkansas Marriages (Alma, Arkansas, Self-published, 1977), Book D 1887-1892; p.31.
5. 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).
6. Grave Marker, Comstock Cemetery visited 25 Jun 1998.
7. James E. "Pete" Howard. Email correspondence.