I started researching Hiram
Comfort (1791-1839) who was born in Montgomery, Orange County and then
relocated to Catskill where he married Julia Ludington in 1822. Hiram was the 4th
of 9 children born to Samuel Comfort and Anna Maria Youngblood. I also found
that his youngest brother Joel was in Catskill and he too married a Ludington,
Emeline 1776-1856.I have been searching for
proof of her parentage, thus far without luck – but feel that she and Julia
were cousins, daughters of brothers Tertullus 1737-1821 and Archibald
1767-1820. My search for proof continues. Interestingly both couples married in
Catskill in the spring of 1822.
Only later did I realize that
their oldest sister Elsje Comfort (1785-1862) had preceded them to Catskill
where she married Egbert Bogardus about 1803.
When Hiram died unexpectedly
in 1839 leaving Julia with 5 daughters aged 6 to 15, it was probably helpful
that she had close family nearby in Catskill. On the Comfort side there was
Joel and Emeline with 5 children plus the 6 surviving Bogardus offspring and
their families. On the Ludington side, 2 of Julia’s siblings (Amelia and Robert)
had moved to Texas but her sisters Eliza Austen, Harriet Lusk and brothers
Henry and Tertullus were nearby with a total of 16 children.
Hiram’s brother Moses lived
in Brooklyn and also died in 1839 leaving wife Ann with 10 children. Their siblings
Samuel, Mary (Douglass), Martha (Rogers) and Catherine (Clearwater) remained in
Montgomery with their combined 14 children. Only their brother James 1795-1844
left New York, settling in Kentucky where he married in 1820 and had 4 sons.
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