Tenth Generation

767. Alma Vivian COMSTOCK⁹⁶ was born on 12 March 1909 in Short, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.²⁶⁶ She died on 16 August 2001 at the age of 92 in Macomb, McDonough County, Illinois.⁹⁶ She was buried in Dutch Mills Cemetery, Lincoln, Washington County, Arkansas.

Arkansas Delayed Birth Certificate, #3243
Alma Comstock was born 12 Marcy 1909 at Uniontown, Crawford County to Hardy Comstock age 31, and Emily Dees, age 29. Affidavit made by her mother, Emily Comstock, age 62, in Washington Co, AR on 30 Dec 1943.
Other family records say she was born in Oklahoma - the famil was there for the 1910 census.

John Babb, age 18, marriage to Alma V. Comstock, age 16, 24 Dec 1925, Crawford Co, AR; Saml. A. Cox, MG

1940 Census. Vineyard, Washington Co, AR, Hh 29
Unincorporated town of Grandville - lived in the same place in 1935
John T. Babb, age 32
Alma, wife, 31
John T., son, age 3 months

1950 Census. Vineyard, Washington, AR, Hh 25
Town of Grandville
John T. Babb, 42, b, AR
Alma b., wife, 41, b. AR
John T., son, 10, b. AR

According to obituary of Lena Comstock Reed, Alma Babb lived in Versailles, Illinois in 1984.

Springdale, AR newspaper, Aug 2001
Obituaries: Alma Babb
Mount Sterling, Illinois. Alma V. Babb, 92, of Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Mount Sterling died 16 Aug 2001, at McDonough District Hospital in Macomb, Ill. She was born March 12, 1909 in Uniontown to Hardy "Tack" and Emily Deese Comstock. She was a homemaker and had served as a teacher for various school districts in Arkansas. She attended Uniontown schools and was a graduate of Van Buren High School and attended Arkansas State Teachers College. She was a member of Versailles Christian Church. Her husband, John T. Babb, died on Dec. 29, 1983.
Survivors include one son and daughter-in-law, John T. Babb and Beth of Versailles; three grandsons, John Christopher Babb and his wife Jodi of Rochester, Ill., Michael Alan Babb and his wife Christine of Mount Sterling and Nathaniel Mark Babb and his wife Michelle, of Jacksonville, Ill.; six great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Hendricker Funeral Home in Mount Sterling with the Rev. Lane Ransdell officiating. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Dutch Mills Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Versailles Christian Church.
Local arrangements are by Luginbuel Funeral Home in Prairie Grove.

Mount Sterling is in Brown Co, Illinois. Macomb is in McDonough County.
Buried Dutch Mills Cemetery, near Lincoln, Washington Co, AR

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Friday, August 17, 2001
Alma V. Babb
MOUNT STERLING - Alma V. Babb, 92, of Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Mount Sterling, formerly of Versailles and Lincoln, Ark., died Thursday, Aug. 16, 2001, at McDonough District Hospital in Macomb.
She was born March 12, 1909, in Uniontown, Ark., the daughter of Hardy "Tack" and Emily Deese Comstock. She married John T. Babb in 1925 in Dripping Springs, Ark.; he preceded her in death in 1983.
Mrs. Babb was a graduate of Van Buren High School in Arkansas and attended Arkansas State Teachers College. She was a homemaker and had served as a teacher for various school districts in Arkansas. She was a member of Versailles Christian Church.
Survivors: a son, John T. (wife, Beth) Babb of Versailles; three grandsons; six great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Graveside services: 10 a.m. Monday, Dutch Mills Cemetery in Arkansas.
Hendricker Funeral Home in Mount Sterling and Luginbuel Funeral Home in Prairie Grove, Ark., are in charge of arrangements.

If it were not for the obituary there would be considerable confusion and, in fact, she has been confused in the Ancestry family trees. There was an Alma Virginia Comstock, b. 16 Jul 1909, who died 18 Dec 2002 - she has a record in the social security death index as last residence, Madison Co, IL and a burial memorial on FindAGrave in Godfrey, Madison Co. She was 93 when she died. This is not the same person - she was a Comstock by marriage.

Alma Vivian COMSTOCK and John Tandy BABB were married on 24 December 1925.²⁶⁷ John Tandy BABB²⁶⁷, son of George Melville BABB and Mary Ella MORTON, was born on 7 November 1907 in Uniontown, Crawford County, Arkansas.²⁶⁹ He died on 29 December 1983 at the age of 76 in Lincoln, Washington County, Arkansas.⁹⁶ He was buried in Dutch Mills Cemetery, Lincoln, Washington County, Arkansas.

Delayed Arkansas Birth Certificte, #855
John Tandy Babb was born 7 Nov 1907, Uniontown, Crawford County to George Melvin Babb, age 47 and Ella Morton, age 41. Ella Babb, mother, age 77 made affidavit, 17 Aug 1943.

16 Oct 1940 World War II Draft Registration
John Tandy Babb of Evansville, Washington Co, AR was 32, b. 7 Nov 1907 in Uniontown, Crawford Co, AR. Mrs. Alma Vivian Bab, wife, would always know his address. Self-employed. 5' 11 3/4" tall, 145 lbs. Blue eyes, Red hair, Nose slightly crooked.

Alma Vivian COMSTOCK and John Tandy BABB had the following children: