"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
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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MATTHEW COMER is the second son of Joseph and Hester (Compton) Comer,
natives of North Carolina and Ohio, and of Irish and English extraction
respectively. Joseph Comer came to Indian Territory in 1804, and located
upon the site now occupied by the city of Richmond, and Matthew was born
July 1, 1825. He lived twenty-one years with his parents, learned the
habits of a farmer, and attended a few terms at the subscription schools.
The first twelve years of his majority were devoted to the carpenter's
trade, an apprenticeship to which he began a short time before. He was
married in Randolph County, Ind., in November, 1846, to Adila J. Harris, who
died March 27, 1881, having borne seven children--Mary Jane, Jabez S., Sarah
A., Levi C., William C., Minnie H. and Mattie F., all of whom are living at
this writing (December, 1883). The Comer and Harris families were of the
Quaker faith, but having refused to "marry in meeting" young Comer and wife
were peremptorily dismissed, and the Methodist Episcopal Church immediately
gained two new members. August 13, 1862, Mr. Comer enlisted at Richmond,
Ind., in Company B, Fifth Indiana Cavalry, and served to the close of the
war. His Company was the first to charge upon and occupy the town of
Knoxville, Tenn. They also took a prominent part in the capture of the
famous command of John A. Morgan. He came to Mooresville in 1865, and soon
afterward embarked in the saw mill business, which he has since followed,
and at which he has made considerable money. He is a strict temperance man,
a Republican in politics, and a citizen of unimpeachable integrity.
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