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I- Claybrooka Cerates gatherIt Friday afternoon, May 29, k twenty-two members of the it “Claybrook Clan” met at Bas-0 trop State Park’s group camp to, In effect, have a reuniond within a reunion. Henry andKuth (nee: Comte I have sixy children; Stan, Don, Lanorail Suggs, Liz Birmingham, Dor-f othy Sacco, and Les. Ail but Don were there. Hit oldest daughter, Landa from Kerrviiiey attended.t Dorothy surprised everyone ). by bra* unannounced attendance.It had been two years since Lanora had seen her and four B yean since the rest of Lanora's s family had seen her. e The next two days were de-1 voted to the John and WiUie Ann tMashaw Comte Reunion.* During the years of the civil ' war, Joe Comte and his 9 brothers came as ship stow-1 aways to the United States ■ from France,9 They were immediately* drafted into the Union Army.* Joe was captured by the South-? em Army. The prisoners were 1 kept in pens and given onlyscraps for food. Each morning an officer would ask the prisoners if they would be willing i to fight (or the South. Those . who chose to fight would be i paid and fed. By the third day,: Joe, not really having and loyalty to the North, volunteered to join the Southern Army.After the war ended, Joe came to Texas where he met and married Molly Haskins. They had nine children, sons: John, Barney, Joe, Richard, Jim and Bob; daughters. tJ Minnie, Josie and Mattie. a John married Willie Ann Mashaw. They had nine child- e ten; Andrew, Elisabeth, Ethel, c Bertha, Nettie, John, James, c Theora and Ruth.This branch of the Comte’s s has gathered annually since 1969 growing to a record atten- fl dance of seventy-six this year, p Of the seventy-six four were * daughters, thirteen grand- « children, twenty-seven great- ti grandchildren and six great- r great-grandchildren The daughtera there were u Bertha Sampson from Scherti, a Nettie William* from California, 9l Theora from Mission and Ruth ri from Indiana- gRelative* came from Texas, §i California and Indiana. One from California met for the u first time two brothers from hi Texas. bjU you are related to the Comte v family and have not received as invitation to the reuainm ,please ooataet Lanora iuggs of Lit. 1. Marion at
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Seguin Gazette Enterprise
Seguin, Texas, US
Tue, Jun 12, 1990
Page 18
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