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Extract from "The COMLY Family in America", G929.2 C734co, DPL, 25 NOV 86.

(5-64) JOHN COMLY married MARTHA WOOD. They had a son:
6-198 SAMUEL COMLY

(6-198) SAMUEL COMLY was born 15 April, 1789. He married ELIZABETH ANN
FOLWELL, 23 April, 1817, in Woodbury, New Jersey. She was a daughter of Nathan Folwell (1769-1834) and Rebecca Iredell (1766-1847), born 7 March, 1798. Samuel was an auctioneer and afterward established (or operated) the Comlyville Print Works, Frankford, Philadelphia. Sam and Elizabeth had eleven children:
7-484 NATHAN FOLWELL COMLY
7-485 SAMUEL COMLY JR.
7-486 REBECCA COMLY
7-487 JOHN COMLY
7-488 ROBERT COMLY
7-489 THOMAS COMLY
7-490 JOSEPH COMLY
7-491 WILLIAM F COMLY
7-492 STEPHEN GIRARD COMLY
7-493 MARY PANCOAST COMLY
7-494 ELIZABETH A COMLY
Elizabeth died 8 August, 1854. Samuel died 22 March, 1866.

(7-484) NATHAN FOLWELL COMLY was born 1 October, 1818. On 26 August, 1848, he married MARY WOOD PANCOAST, a daughter of Aaron and Anne Pancoast. Mary was born 10 February, 1824. Nathan and Mary lived in Philadelphia and had three children:
8-720 SAMUEL PANCOAST COMLY
8-721 REBECCA SWING COMLY
8-722 ANNE PANCOAST COMLY
Nathan died 19 December, 1859. He was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Frankford.

(8-720) SAMUEL PANCOAST COMLY was born 13 July, 1849. He married, first, LAURA L. CARPENTER in 1884. She was a daughter of John and Mary Carpenter, born 3 August, 1856. Sam and Laura lived in Woodbury, New Jersey. They had three daughters:
9-956 LOIS COMLY
9-957 MARY COMLY
9-958 RUTH COMLY
Laura died 12 October, 1891. Sam married, second, HANNAH LORD HAMILL, nee PANCOAST, daughter of James C. Pancoast (1815-1897) and Charlotte Hillman, (1832-1917). Hannah was the widow of William Arthur Hamill, Jr. Sam and Hannah had two children:
9-959 ANNA PANCOAST COMLY
9-960 SAMUEL PANCOAST COMLY, JR.
Samuel died in 1918. Hannah died 19 August, 1942.

(9-956) LOIS COMLY was born in 1886. She died in 1906.

(9-957) MARY COMLY was born 7 January, 1888. She remained unmarried, living in Woodbury, New Jersey. She died 22 July, 1936.

(9-958) RUTH COMLY was born and died in 1890.

(9-959) ANNA PANCOAST COMLY was born 19 July, 1899. She died 12 May, 1916.

(9-960) SAMUEL PANCOAST COMLY, JR. was born 28 August, 1900. He married DOROTHYE THOMASON GRAYSON on 4 January, 1927. She was born 4 August, 1903 at Savannah, Georgia, daughter of William Leon Grayson and Lillian M. Turner. Sam was a naval officer. They had two children:
10-651 DOROTHYE GRAYSON COMLY
10-652 SAMUEL PANCOAST COMLY, JR.

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