When Cecelia Comer was born on 12 July 1894, in Shamokin, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Martin Comer, was 28 and her mother, Cecilia Gannon, was 24. She had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Webster Shaw. She lived in Coal Township, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Northumberland, England, United Kingdom in 2006. She died on 6 February 1965, in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Coal Township, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, 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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