I want to correct some wide-spread misinformation about the parentage of ANNIE COMER DAVENPORT, wife of BEDFORD DAVENPORT, which seems to have as its source The Anne Kendrick Walker book,* Braxton Bragg Comer: His Family Tree from Virginia's Colonial Days.* Walker wrote that Samuel Comer had but one daughter, Rebecca, and dismissed the other females listed in Samuel's will as his daughters as *nieces*, the daughters of John Comer JR. ANNIE COMER, however, is the daughter of SAMUEL COMER and ELIZABETH MOSS, not of ANNA CARROLL and JOHN COMER JR. (Samuel's brother.), although the latter had a daughter named Annie. We know this because Samuel Comer's will written on 4 February 1788 and proved on 22 December 1788 in Halifax co., VA reads in part: *I give and bequeath to my son James Comer...........unto my son Anderson Comer.........unto my daughter Mary LeGrand..........unto my daughter Sally Lucus.......unto my daughter Nancy Comer........unto my son Hugh Moss Comer......unto my daughter Rebecca Comer... (and) ..unto my daughter Annis Davenport the remainder part of all I possess.....* Major Thomas Davenport and Bedford Davenport were chosen as executors. Witnesses were Will McCraw Jr., John Woodson, James McCraw Jr., Samuel McCraw, James Kent, Joseph Holt, and Robert Easly. Sec. Joseph Holt, Robert Easly. It seems unlikely that Samuel Comer would have left the bulk of his estate to someone Walker calls a niece, particularly in view of the fact that in 1765 he had already given his niece Annie Comer, orphan of John Comer Jr., 220 acres, her share of her father's lands. More telling, however, in the Charlotte Co. Guardian Accounts 1782-1789, p. 113, Aug, 1792, is an item which identifies Nancy as the daughter of Samuel Comer and which reads in part: *..... John Bassett and my now wife Nancy Comer, orphan of Samuel Comer, guardian, Josiah Legrand......:* And most telling of all, Annie Comer Davenport and her husband Bedford Davenport were part of a litigation in 1797 over the estate of James Moss of New Kent county who died without heir and who was the brother of Elizabeth Moss Comer. They granted *power of attorney to brother Moss Comer to collect our portion of the estate of James Moss decd. of New Kent. ( Recorded DB17/137)* Had Annis not been the daughter of Elizabeth Moss and Samuel Comer, and, therefore, the niece of James Moss, she would have had no claim on the estate. John Comer Jr.'s children had no right to any part of the estate, having no kinship to James Moss. In addition to Annis and Bedford Davenport, Rebecca Comer and William Clay in TN, and James Comer and Anderson Comer in Georgia gave power of attorney to Hugh Moss Comer to collect their portions of the estate. There seems no credible reason to believe that the persons Samuel called "daughters" in his will were not, in fact, his daughters. Annis Davenport,wife of Bedford Davenport: Mary LeGrand, wife of William LeGrand; Sally Lucus, wife of Moses Lucus; Nancy, later Bassett; and Rebecca, later Clay, were undoubtedly sisters. Neither names nor numbers fit with their being the daughters of John Comer Jr. whose daughters numbered but two, namely Elizabeth Lucus wife of John Lucus, and Annie. It is more than a little strange that Walker added a daughter to those of John Comer Jr: Anna Sammonds; she was not, however, a daughter but his widow as the division of his estate makes clear: * 1762 Dec. 9th. A Division of the Estate of John Comer Dec'd and Anna Sammonds,Wid. of the Dec'd. ,William Comer, Elizabeth Lucus, Daniel Comer, Samuel Comer and Annis Comer Heirs of the Dec'd. Wm. and Annis Sammond..... .......Rec. of the Dec'd. the Purportion (sic).......* And she omitted naming Nancy Comer in her copy of Samuel Comer's will, though Nancy is in the original. Although she produced matching numbers, the names still did not match. But why?