Mary Comfort Leonard

Mary Comfort Leonard
Standing: Mary Comfort Leonard; Sitting: Eva Webb Dodd and Anna Boyd Ellington, circa 1875.
Born	Mary Comfort January 22, 1856 Kosciusko, Mississippi, U.S.
Died	August 4, 1940 (aged 84) Kosciusko, Mississippi, U.S.
Known for	Co-founding the Delta Gamma Fraternity

Mary E. Comfort, Mrs. 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]

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One of 13 children of Daniel Benjamin Comfort, Jr. & Eliza Love Durham, after her initial education, she attended the Lewis School in Oxford, Mississippi 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.