Anna was the fourth of five children born to Joshua Benjamin Comley and Esther Jane Webb. About 1892 her father had an affair with a Cherokee Indian woman named Sarah Rebecca Tapp who became pregnant. Joshua abandoned the family and moved with Sarah to Anderson, Indiana, where they later married and had eight children. Esther moved the family to Louisville, Kentucky, where she located work in the tobacco industry . On 14 Jul 1908 Anna married her first husband, Alonzo Gammons, by whom she had one daughter, Mary Agnes. In Nov 1912 she was granted a divorce from Alonzo on the grounds of abandonment. On 11 Nov of that same year she married William Arthur Eschman and had two more children: Wilma Mae and Raymond Arthur. Anna died of an exopthalmic goiter at the age of 40.
Note: If anyone has any photos of Anna or records pertaining to her please contact me. After her death, William married again and his subsequent wife destroyed all photos, records, etc., relating to Anna.
Anna was my great grandmother.
Note: If anyone has any photos of Anna or records pertaining to her please contact me. After her death, William married again and his subsequent wife destroyed all photos, records, etc., relating to Anna.
Anna was my great grandmother.
Anna was the fourth of five children born to Joshua Benjamin Comley and Esther Jane Webb. About 1892 her father had an affair with a Cherokee Indian woman named Sarah Rebecca Tapp who became pregnant. Joshua abandoned the family and moved with Sarah to Anderson, Indiana, where they later married and had eight children. Esther moved the family to Louisville, Kentucky, where she located work in the tobacco industry . On 14 Jul 1908 Anna married her first husband, Alonzo Gammons, by whom she had one daughter, Mary Agnes. In Nov 1912 she was granted a divorce from Alonzo on the grounds of abandonment. On 11 Nov of that same year she married William Arthur Eschman and had two more children: Wilma Mae and Raymond Arthur. Anna died of an exopthalmic goiter at the age of 40.
Note: If anyone has any photos of Anna or records pertaining to her please contact me. After her death, William married again and his subsequent wife destroyed all photos, records, etc., relating to Anna.
Anna was my great grandmother.
Note: If anyone has any photos of Anna or records pertaining to her please contact me. After her death, William married again and his subsequent wife destroyed all photos, records, etc., relating to Anna.
Anna was my great grandmother.
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