Individual Details
Mary Ella Morton
(Jan 1866 - )
The 1870 Census, when Mary was 5, gives her place of birth as Arkansas
Del says this sister married Randolph Comstock. The Randolph Comstock in Crawford County married Temperance Spier. ???? Did she marry Dolph after Temperance died?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:23:28 -0500
From: Michelle Babb
I can answer that for you, my husband is the grandson of John T. Babb (Ella’s son from her marriage to George Babb). Yes, Ella married Randolph and then they were divorced possibly due to Ella not getting along with Randolph’s children. A funny note, George Babb is buried in the Comstock Cemetery in Arkansas, with the largest stone no less. They say his father, John Babb is buried there also.
We have a picture of Ella in front of the large house in Uniontown that I believe was Randolph’s that she kept after the divorce.
Hope that helps fill in some information,
Michelle Babb
My note: The court case of Randolph v. Ella Comstock states that they had separated - there is no mention of a divorce at that time. The Babb stone is in the adjoining cemetery, not in the Comstock Cemetery plot on Tom Comstock's homestead; the cemeteries are side by side with the Babb graves in the much larger cemetery. The house that Ella was in front of was either Randolph's house that she did not receive - see the court case notes of Randolph Comstock's. Or it was the Wood house that she purchased with her $2000 settlement from Randolph Comstock.
In the 1920 Census, Ella is listed as Ella Comstock, widow, born in Kansas. Her brother Thomas J. Morton, age 40, Divorced and Blind lives with her. She is marked as married, but still head of household. She was four doors from Joseph Christopher Wood, one of my gg grandfathers. I do not know if she bought a house from him or other members of the Wood family. I did compare the 1920 census with 1910 - George & Ella Babb and children were only a few doors from Joseph Wood then, too. Could even have been the same house.
1920 Census of Farm Land Owners
Wanda M. Gray, 1998
COMSTOCK, RANDOLPH Merchant at Uniontown
COMSTOCK, Ella Lived at Unionstown
1900 Census. Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, Hh 216
?Geo Babb, b. Jan 1867, age 33, married 10 years, b. Kansas
E. M., wife, b. Jan 1866, age 34, 1 child, b. AR
Fay N., dau, b. May 1891, age 9, b. AR (dau of George & first wife)
Note: they were about 3 households from Mary Ella's mother.
1910 Crawford Co AR, Union Township, Hh 5
George M. Babb, age 43, 2nd marriage, married 12 years. He was born in Kansas, his father born KY, his mother born TN
Ella, wife was 44, her 2nd marriage. She had three children, all living. Said she was born in OK, father b. MO, mother b. TN.
Carolyn, daughter, 8, born OK. Martha D., daughter, 7, born OK. John, son age 1, b. Arkansas.
1920 Census. Uniontown, Crawford, AR, Hh 56
Ellen Comstock, age 54, married, Farmer
Carolyn Babb, dau, 18, School Teacher. Myrtle Babb, dau, 17. John T. Babb, son, 12
Thomas J. Morton, brother, age 40, divorced, Blind
Events
| Birth | Jan 1866 | Kansas |  | ||
| Marriage | 24 Dec 1883 | Crawford County, Arkansas - Henry E. Miller | | ||
| Marriage | 29 Dec 1898 | Crawford County, Arkansas - George Melville Babb | | ||
| Marriage | 11 Sep 1914 | Randolph "Dolph" Comstock | |||
| Separation | May 1919 | Randolph "Dolph" Comstock |
Families
| Spouse | Henry E. Miller (1860 - 1893) |
| Spouse | George Melville Babb (1867 - 1910) |
| Child | Carolyn Babb (1901 - ) |
| Child | Martha D. Babb (1903 - ) |
| Child | John Tandy Babb (1907 - 1983) |
| Spouse | Randolph "Dolph" Comstock (1865 - 1924) |
| Father | Jackson T. Morton (1835 - 1890) |
| Mother | Margaret Howell (1838 - ) |
| Sibling | Martha E. Morton (1863 - ) |
| Sibling | Lucy A. Morton (1869 - ) |
| Sibling | Armedia Morton (1871 - ) |
| Sibling | Louana Morton (1874 - ) |
| Sibling | Joe Morton ( - ) |
| Sibling | Agnes Morton (1877 - ) |
| Sibling | William Thomas Morton (1880 - ) |
Endnotes
1. US Census 1920 AR, Crawford County (LDS Microfilm #1820059), Uniontown Township. Dwelling 56..
2. Transcribed by Jeania Moore Burns, US Census. 1870. Arkansas, Crawford County., Jasper Twp; p.194b; Dwelling 136..
3. The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwestern Arkansas Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin and Sebastian Counties (The Goodspeed Publishing Co. Chicago. c1889), p.1177 "Jackson T. Morton".
4. Mary Jane Comstock, Compiler; Comstock-Haggard and Allied Families; (Chicago: Adams Press, 1973), p.18.
5. US Census 1910 AR, Crawford County (LDS Microfilm #1374061), Union Township; Household 5 Married 12 years..