Death
For years, the year of Edmonia Lewis’s death was speculated to be 1911 in Rome. An alternative view held that she died in Marin County, California, and was buried in an unmarked grave in San Francisco. Recent scholarship has found that she lived in Hammersmith area of London, England before her death on September 17, 1907, in the Hammersmith Borough Infirmary.
Lewis never married and had no known children. In 2002, the scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Edmonia Lewis on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
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