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Elizabeth L ROUS was born 30 October 1815 in England
Elizabeth L ROUS was the child of ? and ?Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):
Elizabeth L married John Tremain COMSTOCK abt. 1858 . John Tremain COMSTOCK was born 3 May 1807 in Farmington, New York, USA (New Salem). John Tremain died 3 August 1884 in Rollin, Lenawee, Michigan, USA.
Elizabeth L ROUS died 3 August 1891 in Springport, New York, USA .
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Elizabeth L ROUS was a Quaker minister.
Elizabeth L ROUS was a Quaker minister.
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1815 Birth 30 October 1815
England
1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)
1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)
1884 Death of Spouse/PartnerJohn Tremain COMSTOCK died 3 August 1884, Rollin, Lenawee, Michigan, USA
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, Pennsylvania
September 5, 1890
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, 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 MORE...
The Advertiser
Union Springs, Cayuga, New York
August 6, 1891
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 MORE...
The Advertiser
Union Springs, Cayuga, New York
August 6, 1891
1891 Death 3 August 1891
Springport, New York, USA
She died at the age of 75.
Elizabeth is buried at: Chestnut Hill Cemetery
Grove Street and Center Street
Union Springs, New York
Springport, New York, USA (Union Springs)
Added: 5/6/2022 12:02:27 PM
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