Anderson Comer

Anderson Comer

• Anderson Comer was born circa 1750 in Virginia.
• He married Maria (?) say 1775.
• Anderson Comer became a widower at the circa 1782 death of his wife Maria (?)
• He married Nancy Ann Burford, daughter of William Burford and Grissell Clements, circa 1783 in Granville County, North Carolina.
• According to researcher Robert Whitehead, "Anderson Comer was Justice of the Peace, Greene County, Georgia. 1790; Commissioner, Greene County Academy, 1792; Justice of the Inferior Court, Hancock County, 1799; and together with his friend, Major Charles Abercrombie, deeded the land for the Hancock county courthouse in Sparta in 1795."
• Anderson Comer died circa 1812 in Jones County, Georgia.
• His wife Nancy Ann Burford became a widow at his death.
• The following appeared on 10 August 1814 in the Georgia Argus: Nine months after date application will be made to the honorable inferior court of Jones county, for leave to sell all the real estate of Anderson Comer late of said county dec'd, also all the slaves belonging to the estate of said deceased. Nancy Comer, adm'x., Robert Baldwin, L. Abercrombie, Admr's. April 27.
• The following appeared on 7 February 1816 in the Georgia Argus: Agreeable to an order of the court of Ordinary of Jones county, at Clinton, on he first Tuesday in February next, between the usual hours, for cash, Nine Hundred One and One Fourth acres of land, we improved, with a large and commodious Brick house, out houses, &c. Also Two Hundred Two and a Half acres, lying on the waters of Falling creek, belonging to the estate of Anderson Comer, dec'd -- sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said dec'd. Leo Abercrombie, Robert Baldwin, Adm'rs., Nancy Comer, Adm'x. November 1 34-tds.
• According to Comer family researcher Robert C. Whitehead, "The Walker bio of the Comer family was so inaccurate about Anderson Comer and his family and the information contained in it has so pervaded research into that family that one has to refute it in the process of providing a more accurate detailing of that particular group of Comers. So be it." See Robert Whitehead's in-depth study of this family at Descendants of John Comer.

• Last Edited: 19 May 2009