Death
Abbie Palmer Gifford Rogers died unexpectedly on May 21, 1894, age 53 in New York City. She had been undergoing an operation to remove a previously undiagnosed tumor. Her widower, Henry Rogers Sr., eventually remarried, but had no children with his second wife. Outliving her one day short of 15 years, after his death on May 19, 1909, he was interred beside her in Fairhaven's Riverside Cemetery.
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“The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.”
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