Death
Kate Warne did not survive long after the Civil War. She suddenly caught pneumonia on New Year's Day, 1868, and died on the 28th with Pinkerton at her bedside. She is buried in the Pinkerton Family Plot in Chicago Illinois' Graceland Cemetery. The grave is marked in the Graceland Cemetery under the name of Kate Warn and that she died of congestion of the lungs at the age of 38. She was buried January 30, 1868.
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