"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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JOHN C. COMER was born December 8, 1842 in Wayne County, Ind. His parents,
Joseph and Esther (Compton) Comer, were natives of South Carolina and Ohio
respectively. The former came to Indiana in 1808, when seven years of age;
married in Ohio in 1826, and lived in Hendricks and Morgan Counties for ten
years, when he again went to Wayne County, returning to Morgan County in
1862 and locating in Mooresville. He died in February, 1876. The mother
died in January, 1868. John C. Comer is the eighth son and eleventh child,
and was reared in Wayne and Randolph Counties until eight years of age, when
he went with his parents to Iowa. In June, 1861, he enlisted in Company I,
Fourteenth Iowa Volunteers, under Capt. Warren C. Jones. He served for
three and a half years, and took part in the battles of Fort Henry, Fort
Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Jackson, Tenn.; Holly Springs, Vicksburg,
Canton, Miss. He was in the Red River campaign, and at Pilot Knob. In
December, 1864, he was mustered out, and came to Morgan County, Ind.;
purchased a flouring mill at Mooresville, ran it for two years, and then
purchased a saw mill, which he ran until 1870. He next farmed for two
years, and then embarked in the lumber business, following it for eight
years. He was elected Sheriff of the county in 1878, and two years later
was re-elected. After faithfully fulfilling the duties of this office for
four years, he bought a farm of 253 acres in Brown Township, and is at
present farming. In April, 1869, he was married to Miss Annie Gilbert, of
Morgan County. They have had six children, four of whom are living--Ella,
Robert, Mattie and Dolly. Mr. Comer is a member of the I. O. O. F., K. of
H., the K. of P., and of the G. A. R. He is a Republican, and with his wife
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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