Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Comstock, William Van - January 20, 1884
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source: The Donaldsonville Chief. (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current,
January 26, 1884, page 2


DEATH OF WM. V. COMSTOCK. - From the New Orleans States of last Monday evening 
we copy the following sad announcement and merited eulogy:

Yesterday William V. Comstock died after a long and painful illness. He was an 
employe(sic) of the States office until a few weeks ago, when he rapidly 
declining health compelled him to take to his bed. For several years that most 
fatal and insidious disease, consumption, preyed upon him, and reduced him to a 
skeleton of his former self.

Mr. Comstock was a cadet at the Annapolis Naval School at the breaking out of 
the war between the States, resigning when his native State seceded. He joined 
the Confederate navy and served in that department throughout the struggle. 
After the surrender he came to New Orleans, and engaged in commercial pursuits. 
He was employed for several years in the Times, the Times-Democrat, and lastly 
the States. He was an accomplished scholar, and added to this a pleasant 
demeanor which always won him friends.

He leaves a wife and several children to mourn his loss. His remains will be 
taken today to Donaldsonville for burial on the Danube, of which boat his 
brother is captain.

The body reached here Tuesday morning and was taken to the residence of Mr. 
Conrad L. Mavor, brother-in-law of the deceased, from whence it was conveyed to 
the Catholic cemetery and interred during the afternoon. To the sorrowing 
relatives of the worthy deceased, and particularly to his estimable sister, Mrs. 
Camilia Mavor, we offer our sincere sympathy. They lament the loss of one who 
was respected and esteemed by all who knew him.



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