Lillian - Backbone of Newsam Bros. Coal Company

Lillian Augustus  Comstock worked her entire life at Newsam Brothers Coal Company in Peoria, Illinois. She held several positions within the Company mainly as their Book Keeper, Cashier and Treasurer. 

Her father David Augustus Comstock was also a Book Keeper from 1865 after the Civil War to 1874 in Leavenworth, Kansas. 

Lillian was born in Leavenworth, Kansas on 29 December 1870. After her father died when she was just 4 her mother, Anna Lee Gosling moved them to Quincy, Illinois into the home of her widowed Mother. In 1894 Lillian is living in Peoria and working as a Book Keeper. 

From 1894 - 1910 Newsam Brothers operated  coal mines named Newsam No. 2 Coal Mine and New Star No. 2 Coal Mine. In 1895 New Star No. 2 mine was a shaft mine 175 feet deep with a coal vein of 4 feet 4 inches. In 1896 Newsam Brothers Coal Company leases Star Mine from The Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis. Through the years the Newsam Brothers operate coal mines around Peoria County Illinois.  

Exactly 58 years to the day after her birth on 29 December 1928 Lillian dies.