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Note: Memories of My Grandfather-Charles F. Comstock
by Dan C. Thomas
He was known by all of his friends, my mother and father, and their friends as "Doc" but to me he was
Grandpaw. He and my grandmother were born in Ilion, New York and lived in New York until they moved
to Nowata, Oklahoma. This is where he went to work for the Sinclair-Prairie Oil Companyand my mother
went to high school. She had a classmate there named Carl Richards who later moved to Tulsa and was
the father of Richard L. Richards who became one of my best friends. My grandparents moved to Tulsa,
Oklahoma when the oil company split into the Sinclair Oil Company and the Pure Oil Company. My
grandfather went with the Pure Oil Company as their gas superintendent. He had a company car which
was a big deal in the depression. The Pure Oil Company had an office building on the southeast corner
of Sixth and Cheyenne running one half a block east to the alley, east of it was the Medical Arts ten story
building in which most of the Tulsa doctors had offices. The Pure Oil Company building was a four story
limestone facade with wide steps leading to the lobby on the second floor. The company owned some
land on south Delaware at about 84th Street South with pumping wells including some north of 81st
Street which is now the campus of Oral Roberts University. Pure Oil had built a swimming pool up on a
rise about one quarter mile east of Delaware. My grandfather was a great swimmer and that was where I
learned to swim. It was well water and cold, so it felt great on hot summer days. In the late 1920's my
grandparents had a home built at 1326 East 27th Street in Tulsa and were living there when they both
died. That home is still there today and well maintained. My grandfather was involved in the acquiring
and development of Woodard Park and he died in 1935 at the age of sixty years.
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