Adelard Gravel and Final Years
By 1900 she was married to Adelard Gravel, a Manhattan based French-Canadian artist and printer that the press described as “moderately prosperous.” In late 1905 Markham was reported to be near death with pneumonia though later press clarified it to be a serious case of the measles. She lived on with her husband for another fourteen years, dying in New York at the age of 71.
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