Elizabeth L ROUS
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 traveled several thousand miles in procuring contributions for their benefit.

All these arduous labors greatly reduced her physical strength, and in the later years of her lite, she was unable to perform so unremitting labors for the benefit of others, and passed much of her time in her quiet home at Union Springs. She was enabled however to make occasional visits to other States, and the past winter was spent in Florida.

Only a few days before her decease, she was able to attend the Friends' meeting in this village. When first taken ill with her last formidable illness, she expressed her consciousness that it was to have a fatal termination


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

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