One of his former residences, located at 2 East Taylor Street, in Monterey Square in Savannah, Georgia,[1] is known as the Comer House today.

[4] Comer's father was a cotton planter who also owned a lumberyard and a corn mill.

[7] One of their children was Annie Comer, who married Clark Howell five months after her father's death.

[7] Daughter Lilla married Dr. John Kirk Train, a Savannah physician, in 1909.

[7] In 1896, Comer purchased Old Town Plantation from Atlanta businessman James L. Dickey.