Martha Elizabeth Comish

1875 - 1900  (25 years)

• Name	Martha Elizabeth Comish
  Birth	14 Sep 1875	Cove, Cache, Utah Territory, United States
  Gender	Female
  Death	20 Dec 1900	Franklin, Franklin, Idaho, United States
  Burial	22 Dec 1900	Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Franklin, Idaho, United States
  Person ID	I4779	Main Tree
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Robert Nephi Comish,   b. 12 Dec 1842, Onchan, Isle of Man d. 13 Nov 1882, Cove, Cache, Utah, United States (Age 39 years)
  Mother	Emma Jane Howland,   b. 14 Jan 1849, Flagg Township, Ogle, Illinois, United States d. 24 Dec 1917, Fairview, Franklin, Idaho, United States (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	21 Jan 1865	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Family ID	F11107	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Peter Green Whitehead,   b. 7 Sep 1874, Franklin, Oneida, Idaho, United States d. 4 Oct 1945, Preston, Franklin, Idaho, United States (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	16 Dec 1896	Logan, Cache, Utah, United States
  	Type: Temple
  Children	1. Margaret Emma Whitehead,   b. 10 Feb 1898, Franklin, Oneida, Idaho, United States d. 22 May 1973, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States (Age 75 years)   2. Phyllis Whitehead,   b. 24 Apr 1899, Franklin, Franklin, Idaho, United States d. 25 Dec 1994 (Age 95 years)   3. Maggie Comish Whitehead,   b. 5 Dec 1900, Franklin, Franklin, Idaho, United States d. 19 Sep 1991, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States (Age 90 years)
  Family ID	F1848	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Sep 2024

  
  

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  Birth - 14 Sep 1875 - Cove, Cache, Utah Territory, United States Marriage - Type: Temple - 16 Dec 1896 - Logan, Cache, Utah, United States Death - 20 Dec 1900 - Franklin, Franklin, Idaho, United States Burial - 22 Dec 1900 - Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Franklin, Idaho, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  Martha Elizabeth Comish Contributed to FamilySearch.org by Bryce_Holt_1 9 September 2024

  
  

• Notes

  HISTORY OF MARTHA ELIZABETH COMISH She was the daughter of Robert Nephi Comish and Emma Jane Howland. She blessed by John Doney Nov.4, 1075. She was named for her two grandmothers, Elizabeth Comish and Martha Diane Howland. But the family and later on her friends all called her "Maggie", so when she was baptiz:ed she added Maggie to her name. She was baptized by James Hurd, June 3, 1884 and confirmed by L.L. Hatch June 3, 1884. She attended school at Cove, Cache Co., Utah. She was a very pretty girl. She had large dark brown eyes and hair and a very complexion. She had a jovial dispositon and was a great tease. She used to like to talk to the Indians. So many of them used to camp close to our place and used to give her strings of beads and other trinkets. Her sister Hattie was a real coward of the Indians and would run and hide when she would seem an Indian coming. One day the two girls had been to Franklin do some shopping for their mother and after they started home, Maggie spied a band of Indians going along the road toward their home so she commenced whipping the horse they were riding so to catch up with them. Her sister begged and coaxed her not to, In fact, she had to promise her nearly everything she owned to her to go slow until the Indians passed their home. These two sisters were about the same size and they used to always dress alike and were asked many times they were twins. They were good pals and spent many happy hours together. When Maggie was about l8 years old she had poor health. She used to faint often so her mother took her to the temple for a Health Blessing. They carried her into the temple, she was baptized for her health and given a blessing, she was able to walk and had good health after that. Maggie was married to Peter G. Whitehead Dec. 16, 1896 at the Logan Temple. They lived at Franklin Idaho for a little over a year and then they bought them a nice farm and home about a mile north of Franklin. On the 10th of Feb. 1898 they were bl essed with a little girl and they named her Margaret Emma after her two grandmothers, but she too wa nicknamed and called"Gretta". On the 24th of April, 1899 they had another little girl born to them which they named Phyllis and Dec. 5, 1900 they were blessed with another baby girl which they named Maggie. She was so proud of her little girls and was a wonderful wife and mother and they had a very happy home but due complications which set in after the confinement of her last baby died on Dec. 20 1900 at Franklin, Idaho and was buried in the Franklin Cemetary. Her three little girls lived with her mother for seven years until he married again. Her children Margaret Emma (Gretta) Whitehead married Lester William Corbridge on Nov. 8, 1916, Phyllis Whitehead married Dee Day Kingsford Dec. 8, 1920, and Maggie C. Whitehead married William Reed Jamison, Feb. 25, 1925.