Elizabeth L  ROUS

1890 - Kind Deeds
Elizabeth Comstock, an aged Quaker preacher in Union Springs, N. Y., has visited in her lifetime 122,000 persons, and nearly twice that many sick persons in and out of the poor houses, on battlefields, etc.
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New Oxford Item
New Oxford, Pennsylvania
September 5, 1890

Obituary
Elizabeth L. Comstock died in this village on the morning of the 3d instant., after a few days illness, aged 75 years.

A native of England, she came to this country in her younger years, and afterwards became distinguished as a public speaker and as an eloqueut minister of the Society of Friends. She resided many years in Canada, and afterwards for a length of time in Michigan.

When the war of the rebellion broke out, she became greatly interested in the sufferings of the soldiers in the hospitals, and she had unlimited authority from President Lincoln to visit them, which she performed with unremitting labor during the continuance of the war. It has been ascertained that she visited in the different States and hospitals no less than 105,000 sick and wounded soldiers, to many of whom she imparted the consolations of the gospel.

Subsequently she became greatly interested in the colored freedmen, especially in those who emigrated to Kansas to escape despotic treatment, and she...Read full story



The Advertiser
Union Springs, Cayuga, New York
August 6, 1891