Comar Allie Landrum

Comar Allie Landrum

• Father: Samuel Alexander Landrum b. 25 April 1853, d. 19 December 1936
• Mother: Sarah Caldonia Wilson b. 30 April 1856, d. 9 July 1936

• Comar Allie Landrum was born on 3 April 1884 in Arkansas.
• Her name was recorded as Coma later in life.
• Samuel Alexander Landrum and Sarah Caldonia Wilson appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Henderson County, Texas. Other members of the household included Comar Allie Landrum. Also in the household were other children Troy (age 21), Ortha (18), Lora (13), Ola (10) and Jessie (6), not yet recorded.
• She married Albert Newton Brigance, son of John Newton Brigance and Mariah Wessie Brooks, circa 1901.
• Albert Newton Brigance and Comar Allie Landrum appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Mabank, Kaufman County, Texas, at Mason Street. Also in the household were children Archie N. (age 8), May (5), Louis C. (3) and Troy L (1-1/12), not yet recorded.
• Albert Newton Brigance registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Ennis, Ellis County, Texas, while living with his wife Cora in Ennis, and employed there as a laborer by J. A. Davis.
• Albert Newton Brigance and Comar Allie Landrum appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Ennis, Ellis County, Texas, at 809 East Brown Street. Other members of the household included Jimmy Lee Brigance. Also in the household were children Archie (age 18), May (15), Clyde (13), Louis (11) and Madge (7), not yet recorded.
• Albert Newton Brigance and Comar Allie Landrum appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Ennis, Ellis County, Texas. Other members of the household included Jimmy Lee Brigance. Also in the household were children Madie (age 17), Clarie (9) and Joe (4-2/12), not yet recorded.
• Comar Allie Landrum became a widow at the 22 July 1952 death of her husband Albert Newton Brigance.
• At the time of her death Comar Allie Landrum was living in Corsicana, Navarro County, Arkansas, at 629 North 13th Street.
• Comar Allie Landrum died on 21 June 1975 at age 91 in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, at Navarro County Memorial Hospital . Informant was Mrs. Anna Powell.
       Anna E. Powell (1904-2000) and her husband Clarence B. Powell (1898-1954) also are buried at Hamilton-Beeman Cemetery, but her relationship to Coma and Albert Brigance has yet to be discovered.
• She was interred at Hamilton-Beeman Cemetery, Retreat, Navarro County, Texas.

• Last Edited: 18 Feb 2012