When Oliver Tyler Comfort was born in 1844, in Ashland, Chemung, New York, United States, his father, Oliver C Comfort, was 41 and his mother, Myrtilla Coleman, was 40. He married Caroline J Suffern about 1867, in Ashland, Chemung, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Chemung, New York, United States in 1880 and Wellsburg, Chemung, New York, United States in 1900. He died in 1917, at the age of 73, and was buried in Wellsburg, Chemung, New York, United States.
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English (southeastern): nickname for someone who gave or sought comfort, from Middle English cumfort, comfort ‘comfort; encouragement; consolation; pleasure, joy’. Middle English do comfort (literally ‘do comfort’) meant ‘to amuse (someone)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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