He knew that he was going for some time before he died and as death approached he met it as he lived, calmly and fearlessly. The old soldier, settler, comrade, and friend has gone but behind him he has left the record of a man. Soldiers of the present conflict carried his body to the last resting place, and taps were sounded and while he was unconscious of all this, methinks that up yonder he has long since heard the welcome plaudit, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter into the joys of thy Lord."

Francis A. Comstock was born at Boonville, Oneida County, New York. June 18, 1845. At seven years of age he moved with his family to Herkimer county. New York, where he resided until 1858. In that year he moved to Blue Earth county, Minnesota, from which place he enlisted in Company E. 2nd Minnesota Cavalry, 1863, and served under the colors until the close of the Civil War. His company was given service on the Western Plains among the Sioux Indians.

After the war he took up his residence in Todd county, Minnesota, where he married Edith E. Webster, at Gordontown January 1, 187<>. After living for three years in Montana and returning to Minnesota for another three years, Mr. Comstock moved with his family to Kearney, Nebraska. In the spring of '86 the Comstocks settled in the North Platte Valley at Chimney Rock where the family lived for thirty years. In ISOh, he united with the United