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KANAHWA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: COMER, Isaac
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
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September 18, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia, W.S. Laidley, 1911,
p. 764
This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site
or genalogical organization.
ISAAC COMER, justice of the peace and representative citizen of Poca
district, Kanawha county, W. Va., resides on his farm of forty-nine acres,
situated fifteen miles north of Charleston. He was born in Poca district,
December 29, 1846, and is a son of George W. and Matilda A. (Miller) Comer.
George W. Comer was a native of Kanawba county as was also his wife. He
served as a soldier in Co. A, W. Va. Cav., during the Civil War and at one
time during his service was slightly wounded. He was a republican in
politics but never accepted any office, living a quiet, useful life on his
farm, where he died at the age of seventy-eight years, his wife passing away
in her sixty-eighth year. They were members of the Adventist church and their
burial was in Sigman Cemetery. Twelve children were born to George W. Comer
and his wife, three of whom survive. namely: Isaac, Frances E. and Lydia C.
Isaac Comer had only public school advantages in his youth and at different
times at-tended in Poca district. He was little more than a boy when he
enlisted for service in the Civil War, becoming a member of Co. E, i3th W.
Va. Volunteer Infantry. After the ter-mination of the war he returned to
Poca dis-trict and engaged in farming and after his marriage located on his
present property, which at that time contained but thirty-five acres. He
purchased sixteen additional acres at a later date and has all but two acres
under a fine state of cultivation. He has been a pu~ lic official here for a
long time, having served for twenty-two years as postmaster at Legg, the mail
delivery being three times a week. He is a republican in politics and for
twenty years has been a justice of the peace.
Mr. Comer was married in i866, to Miss Nancy J. Iman, a daughter of Jacob
Iman, of Kanawba county, and twelve children have been born to them, namely:
George H., who lives near Sissonville, W. Va.; Mary E., who is the wife of
James A. Young, of Poca district; John W., who died when aged three years;
Rachel A., who is deceased; and Bettie M., Jesse P., Sarah E., Barbara,
Jennie E., Benjamin I. and Florence, the last mentioned being deceased.
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