Death
She died on March 7, 1942, in a house fire in ]. Her lover, George Markstall, died the next day from wounds he received while trying to save her. She was believed to be 89 years old. After her death, police seized her library of over 1,500 books and all of her personal papers. She is buried near her husband at Waldheim Cemetery, near the Haymarket Monument (now Forest Home Cemetery), in Forest Park, Illinois (then part of the city of Chicago).
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