Miss Mary E. Comstock, Educator

 

Mary Eliza Comstock was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1839 to Thomas Comstock and his wife, the former Martha Carr. After graduating from Sandusky High School, Mary taught school at Kelleys Island and at Sandusky City Schools, In the early 1870s, Mary E. Comstock moved to Cleveland. She was eventually promoted to the principalship of the Walton School. She retired from that position in 1907.

Miss Comstock passed away on May 5, 1924. She was laid to rest in the family lot at Sandusky's Oakland Cemetery.

 

Top image courtesy: Educational History of Ohio, by James Jesse Burns (Columbus, Ohio, 1905)

Terrific Tool: Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records

 

A very helpful tool for genealogy reseach is Joe Beine's Online Seachable Death Indexes and Records. 

To us this site, just select the state for which you are looking for death records. From the state, then select the county. For Erie County, Ohio, the choices that are retrieved include:

Oakland Cemetery Burials

and

Milan Cemetery Burials

No matter where your ancestors live in the United States, you can see what death indexes and records are available for that location, by searching this site.

Oakland Cemetery, Erie County, Ohio