Mary Comfort Leonard

Mary E. Comfort Leonard

Standing: Mary Comfort Leonard; Sitting: Eva Webb Dodd and Anna Boyd Ellington, circa 1875.
Born Mary Comfort
(1856-01-22)January 22, 1856
Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA
Died August 4, 1940(1940-08-04) (aged 84)
Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA

Mary E. Comfort Leonard (January 22, 1856 – August 4, 1940) was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi. She was one of the three founders of the Delta Gamma Fraternity along with Anna Boyd Ellington and Eva Webb Dodd in 1873 at The Lewis School in Oxford, Mississippi.[1]

Information

She is one of 13 children of Daniel Benjamin Comfort, Jr. & Eliza Love Durham. After initial education, she attended The Lewis School in Oxford for three years. There, she met her husband Charles Henry Leonard, a student at the University of Mississippi. After her husband's death, she became a teacher in the Kosciusko school system.

References

  1. ↑ Delta Gamma (2012-09-25). "History". Delta Gamma Fraternity. Retrieved 2012-10-09.


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