Individual Details
Hardy Earl Comstock
(18 Nov 1917 - 24 Dec 1983)
Or married Gladys Vera Morton 20 Mar 1936 - researchers do not agree.
Found exact date of death in Crawford Co Gen Soc publication that printed obituary of Lena Comstock Reed. Buried in US National Cemetery, Fort Smith AR.
Ft. Smith Library Database Online:
COMSTOCK Hardy Earl Nov 18, 1917 Dec 24, 1983 Dec 27, 1983
National 1983
Birth: Nov. 18, 1917 Death: Dec. 24, 1983
1ST SGT, US ARMY Burial:
Fort Smith National Cemetery
Fort Smith
Sebastian County
Arkansas, USA
Plot: 14, 0, 563
World War II Enlistment Records:
Hardy E. Comstock, born 1917, born Arkansas. Listed as residing Multnomah Co, Oregon. Enlisted at Ft. Riley, Kansas, 28 Jan 1946 as a Sergeant in the Cavalry. He enlisted in the Hawaiian Department. He had three years of high school and his occupation was Pipe Fitter. In the enlistment record transcription, his height given as 97 and his weight as 450 - both of which must surely be errors - or standard measurement was not used.
Discharged, 30 June 1966.
Events
| Birth | 18 Nov 1917 |  | |||
| Marriage | 20 Mar 1936 | Crawford County, Arkansas - Gladys Vera Morton | | ||
| Divorce | 30 Jan 1952 | Crawford County, Arkansas - Gladys Vera Morton | | ||
| Marriage | Jul 1953 | Mildred V. Smith | | ||
| Death | 24 Dec 1983 | Alma, Crawford County, Arkansas | | ||
| Burial | 27 Dec 1983 | Fort Smith Natl Cemetery, Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas | |
Families
| Spouse | Gladys Vera Morton (1918 - 1988) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Randall Keith Comstock (1938 - 1938) |
| Child | Living |
| Spouse | Mildred V. Smith (1919 - 1996) |
| Father | Hardy "Tack" Comstock (1877 - 1936) |
| Mother | Emily Catherine Deese (1879 - 1956) |
| Sibling | Lena Audra Comstock (1905 - 1984) |
| Sibling | Alma Vivian Comstock (1909 - 2001) |
| Sibling | Hazel Edith Comstock (1912 - 1995) |
Endnotes
1. Mary Jane Comstock, Compiler; Comstock-Haggard and Allied Families; (Chicago: Adams Press, 1973), p.15.
2. U.S. Federal Census - Digital Images Online by Subscription (Ancestry.com); 1790-1940.
3. Don Comstock Reed [now deceased], Family File of Don Comstock Reed, descendant of Tack Comstock and Emily Deese.
4. Gloria Comstock correspondence. Her husband descended from Hardy "Tack" Comstock.
5. Gloria Comstock correspondence. Her husband descended from Hardy "Tack" Comstock.
6. Gloria Comstock correspondence. Her husband descended from Hardy "Tack" Comstock.
7. Social Security Death Index. Search available on
8. Don Comstock Reed [now deceased], Family File of Don Comstock Reed, descendant of Tack Comstock and Emily Deese.
9. "Interment.net," database, Interment.net (: Online February 2014), Ft. Smith National Cemetery, Sebastian County, Arkansas.