Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1916 — Aged Aunt of the Misses Comer Died in Walnut, Ia. [ARTICLE]

Aged Aunt of the Misses Comer Died in Walnut, Ia.

Misses Lizzie and Mary Comer this week received a copy _ of The Walnut, la., Bureau, which gave an account of the death at Marion, lowa, on Christmas day of their aged aunt, MrS. Rachel J. Comer, widow of Thomas Comer. age was 94 years, 8 ninths and 7 days. She was born near Bowling Green, Ky., and herself and husband lived in Rensselaer for some time, moving to Delphi, where he died May 6th, 1866. She had, therefore, been a widow for almost fifty yfears. In 1869 she and her two children moved to lowa, where they shared many of the experiences of pioneer life. Six children died in infancy and the other two isurvive. They are, Mrs. Caroline McGimpsey, of Marion, lowa, and S. R. Comer, of Walnut, lowa. The body was shipped to Walnut for burial. Her daughter, Mrs. McGimpsey, is 70 years of age and was unable to attend the funeral owing to a fall she recently had on the icy pavement during her mother’s short sickness wih pneumonia. Mrs. Comer had been a member of the Methodist church for eighty years.