Elizabeth Sewall Alcott
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Elizabeth Sewall Alcott was one of the two younger sisters of Louisa May Alcott. She was born in 1835 and died at the age of 22 from scarlet fever.
Elizabeth Alcott was fictionalized as Beth March in Little Women (1868).
Louisa May Alcott, c. 1870 Warren's Portraits, Boston
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a rural cemetery located on Bedford Street near the center of Concord, Massachusetts. The cemetery is the burial site of a number of famous Concordians, including some of the
Elizabeth Sewall Alcott
…funeral was a small affair, with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn serving as pallbearers. Lizzie was interred at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. LaPlante, Eve. Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012: 81. ISBN 978-1-4516-2067-2…
Thoreau family plot in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Melvin Memorial (1908) (Daniel Chester French, sculptor; Henry Bacon, architect)
The grave of Louisa May Alcott at Sleepy Hollow
The grave of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn at Sleepy Hollow