Mary Comfort Leonard


Mary E. Comfort, Mrs. Leonard 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.

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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.