Note: The marriage of Joseph Short to Miss Comfort J. Niday, both of Gallia County at the District Parsonage in Gallipolis by Rev. H.Z. Adams on 8 November 1866.
Note: I feel sure that Comfort's name was chosen because she was a comfort to her young mother, Jane Niday, whose first pregnancy produced twins who died at birth. Her middle name was that of her mother. Comfort was born when her mother was 19 years old. She was the eldest of a family of fourteen children, all of whom survived infancy [except the first twins]. In fact all of Comfort's siblings survived to adulthood except a four-year-old brother who died with their mother after being struck by lightning in May 1860. Comfort was still at home at that time and probably took on the role of mother to the younger children.
Six years later in November 1866, Comfort married Joseph P. Short, who was born in Western Virginia. They had five children, four girls and a boy, and lived on a farm in Guyan Township in Gallia Co., Ohio.
Comfort's last-born baby died at birth in 1879, so in the 1880 federal census there were four children: Sarah 11, Geneva nine, Julia seven and Dudley six.
By 1900 Joseph had died. Comfort aged 63 and her three daughters had moved to Huntington, West Virginia, where Dolly 32, Geneva 29 and Julia 27 were seamstresses. They also supplemented their income by having boarders. In June 1900 there were two men boarding with them.
Comfort Jane Niday Short died in Columbus, Ohio on 3 January 1920, which was the day that the federal census was taken. She was included.
Comfort aged 82 was renting her house with her three daughters Dolly 53, Julia 47 years old and "Jenny" (Geneva) who was 49 years old and widowed.
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