Religious and Fraternal Organizations  The Comstock contained a large population during its’ heyday, estimated as high as 35,000 people.  As a result many religious, ethnic, and Fraternal Organizations existed.  The Comstock Cemetery Foundation’s board mirrors the demographics of many of these organizations, and especially those that are represented in the Comstock Cemeteries.  For the purposes of our website we have provided a brief history of some of the groups represented by our Board of Directors.

The Board members realize that death is universal, touches us all, and historic cemeteries are valuable reminders of our strong ties to the past.  Those connections are found throughout the cemetery and reflected in a poem, sent to the local paper in 1863…

“My Mother’s Grave
I love to linger round the sacred spot
And strew sweet flowers on the grassy mound,
Where calm and peaceful she sleeps
Within the ground
I love to sit me by her silent grave
And gaze upon the starry evening sky
For there, I know, an angel bright and fair
She lives on high
I know her spirit hovers round me yet,
And gently whispers to my saddened heart
That there’s home where we shall meet again
Never to part
Around my heart, O may her memory twine
To guard my fostering footsteps lest they stray
And may its influence, holy and sublime,
Teach me to pray
That I may find that peaceful, happyland
Where kindred ties can never more be broken
And where the tender, mournful word,
Farewell
Is never spoken.”

If you would like to make a donation, please complete the sponsorship form and send to the Comstock Cemetery Foundation.

If you have an item to return, or photographs to donate, please contact us at (775) 847-0281, or by email at comstockcf@hotmail.com.

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