When Robert Comer was born on 17 December 1823, in Richmond, Wayne Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States, his father, Robert Comer, was 52 and his mother, Martha Hawkins, was 49. He married Sarah Fouts on 3 February 1847, in Wayne, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Wayne Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States in 1870. He died on 17 May 1898, in Wayne, Indiana, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Richmond, Wayne Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States.
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English: occupational name from Middle English combere, an agent derivative of Old English camb ‘comb’, referring perhaps to a maker or seller of combs, or to someone who used them to prepare wool or flax for spinning. This was an alternative process to carding, and caused the wool fibers to lie more or less parallel to one another, so that the cloth produced had a hard, smooth finish without a nap.
Probably an Americanized form of German or Dutch Kommer or Kammer .
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