Individual Details
Birdie Chadwick
(9 Jul 1879 - 9 Jul 1978)
1880 Census. Van Buren, Crawford Co, AR, Hh 397
Ed Chadwick, 22, b. MO Sarah E., 19, b. AR, father b. NC, mother b. TN
Berdie, 10 months, son, b. July, b. AR
They were apparently living in the household of Robert & Mary F. Estes and their five children, and Elisha Estes, age 85 - although the enumerator may have just failed to put a household number for the Chadwicks.
Birdie's mother - Sarah Elizabeth Long Chadwick, remarried after the death of her first husband to Harrison Charles Small.
1900 Census. Union Twp, Crawford Co, AR, Hh 31
Harrison C. Small, b. Feb 1840, age 60, married 16 years, b. Indian Territory
Sarrah E., wife, b. Oct 1860, age 39, married 16 years, 9 children - 7 are living, b. AR
Birdie, dau, b. Jul 1879, 20, b. IT
Harrison V., son, b. Oct 1877, 12 - b. AR as were all the rest of the children
Charles L., son, b. Nov 1890, 9
Ruth E., dau, b. Sep 1893, 6
Bailey S., son, b. Jul 1894, 5
Howard W., son, b. Jun 1896, 4
Niti B. dau, b. Aug 1898, age 1
Birdie "Shadwick" age 18 and Francis Houghton, age 26, applied for marriage license in Crawford Co, AR on 18 Sep 1897. They were married the next day by John Nolan, JP.
Birdie remarried after the death of Clinden.
In 1920, she and new husband Tom Fuller lived between Omer Mills [who had been married to Cordelia Comstock] and Randolph Comstock, in Uniontown. The three younger children are Comstocks but they are listed as Fullers. Goy was Tom's son by his first marriage.
1920 Census. Uniontown, Crawford Co, AR, Hh 24
Thomas Fuller, age 46, b. MO
Burdie, wife, 40, b. AR
Goy, son, 18, b. OK
Charlie, son, 12, b. AR
Minnie, dau, 10, b. AR
Ed, son, 8, b. AR
1930 Census. Jasper Twp, Crawford Co, AR, Hh 29
Thomas F. Fuller, 55, married first time at age 17, b. MO
Birdie, wife, 50, married first time at age 19, b. OK
1940 Census. Uniontown, Crawford Co, AR, Hh 13
Lived in the same place in 1935
T. F. Fuller, 68, b. MO
Birdie, wife, 60, b. OK
11 January 1943 Petition for Divorce filed in Crawford Co AR. Birdie Fuller vs. Tom Fuller for cruel treatment. He is a non-resident of Arkansas. Married in Crawford County 9 Sep 1915.
Events
Families
Spouse | Clinden "Den" Comstock (1873 - 1912) |
Child | Charles Franklin "Charlie" Comstock (1908 - 1986) |
Child | Patricia Minerva "Pat Minnie" Comstock (1910 - 1998) |
Child | Edward Den Comstock (1912 - 1997) |
Spouse | Thomas Franklin "Tom" Fuller (1865 - ) |
Spouse | Francis Houghton (1871 - ) |
Child | Gentie Comstock (1901 - 1996) |
Child | Thomas Denzil Comstock (1905 - 1911) |
Father | Edward Chadwick (1858 - 1881) |
Mother | Sarah Elizabeth Long (1861 - 1943) |
Endnotes
1. Mary Jane Comstock, Compiler; Comstock-Haggard and Allied Families; (Chicago: Adams Press, 1973), p.14.
2. 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), Name on son's grave marker.
3. Don Comstock Reed [now deceased], Family File of Don Comstock Reed, descendant of Tack Comstock and Emily Deese.
4. US Census 1910 AR, Crawford County (LDS Microfilm #1374061), Union Township; Household 43.