James
Elbert
Comer
Born in Boylers Mill, Morgan, Missouri, United States
Ancestors 
Son of James Robert Comer
and Minnie Addis (Driscoll) Comer
Husband of
Jennie M. (Lane) Comer
— married
about 1921 [location unknown]
Father of
Beulah May (Comer) Hicks and Dorothy Ellen (Comer) Williams
Died
at age 71
in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States
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Biography
James Comer served as a Corporal in Company K, 140th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division of the US Army in World War I (the 35th Division also included a young artillery Captain, Harry S Truman). The 140th Infantry Regiment was a Missouri National Guard unit before the war, and was one of only a handful of US Army units whose lineage traces back to a Confederate States Army unit of the Civil War, the 6th Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
James Comer is buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas, USA
Sources
- https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GSW7-6MZ
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16200775/james-elbert-comer
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)
- https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/140th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
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~0.78%
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