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 Sarah Wilkins - James Thomas Comstock

James Thomas Comstock settled in Butler County, Ohio when Cincinnati was but a small town of log cabins and became a well-known trader in his section. He also conducted a distillery near Cincinnati. On one occasion he loaded a flatboat with pork and whiskey and floated it down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, where he reloaded it with merchandise and thus with a keelboat returned to Cincinnati, it required nine months to make the trip.
He was a strong Jacksonian Democrat and on that party was elected to the Ohio Congress in 1827 (served 2 terms). It was in honor of Andrew Jackson, the hero of the Battle of New Orleans, that his fourth son was named.
In about 1836 he moved from Venice, Ohio and took residence in Warsaw, Indiana. He was later elected as one of the three state justices of the Indiana Supreme Court. He helped build the first courthouse, jail, and mill in Kosciusko County, Indiana. James was one of the earliest settlers of Mahaska County, claiming land along the Indian Trail (known later as the Glendale Road) on May 1, 1843--the opening day for white settlers into the NEW PURCHASE. He joined with William Pilgrim and Alexander McCrary to build a mill on the South Skunk River which was operating by the spring to 1844.
- Courtesy of Bernie Allgood

Residences

1795 - Pennsylvania
1850 - Mahaska, Iowa
1860 - Oskaloosa, Mahaska, Iowa
1870 - Oskaloosa, Mahaska, Iowa
1878 - Oskaloosa, Mahaska, Iowa

 Sarah Wilkins - Age (82y 6m 29d)
12 Oct 1795 - 10 May 1878
 
  Pennsylvania
  Oskaloosa, Mahaska, Iowa
Cemetery Records   Old White Cemetery - Oskaloosa, Iowa , USA
  
Parents   Michael Wilkins & Margaret Stettler
 
 
        
1850 Census Records1850 Census
1860 Census Records1860 Census
1870 Census Records1870 Census

Children

Children Ephraim Wilkins Comstock  - 6 Jan 1814 - 10 Apr 1835  - Age (21y 3m 4d)
Children James Crosby Comstock  - 11 Oct 1815 - 1881  - Age (66y )
Children Margaret S. Comstock  - 4 Aug 1817 - 14 Apr 1819  - Age (1y 8m 10d)
Children Eunice Margaret Comstock  - 29 Jul 1819 - 8 Feb 1887  - Age (67y 6m 7d)
Children Elizabeth Sarah Comstock  - 21 Jan 1820 - 16 Jan 1852  - Age (31y 11m 26d)
Children Joab Richard Comstock  - 1 Mar 1823 - 9 Aug 1823  - Age (0y 5m 8d)
Children Loring Samuel Comstock  - 16 Jul 1824 - 10 Mar 1873  - Age (48y 7m 25d)
Children Susan Priscilla Comstock  - 21 Jul 1826 - 7 Feb 1887  - Age (60y 6m 14d)
Children Andrew Jackson Comstock  - 31 Oct 1828 - 15 Feb 1909  - Age (80y 3m 12d)
Children Catharine Ruth Comstock  - 26 Mar 1831 - 1910  - Age (79y )
Children William Hudson Comstock  - 3 Dec 1834 - 28 Oct 1886  - Age (51y 10m 25d)
Children Eliza Jane Comstock  - 11 Sep 1837 - 19 Jan 1919  - Age (81y 4m 8d)






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