Louisa May Alcott

1832 - 1888  (55 years)

• Name	Louisa May Alcott  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Birth	29 Nov 1832	Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Female
  Occupation	Author - wrote "Little Women"
  		Little Women
  Death	6 Mar 1888	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [2, 3, 4, 6]
  	Cause: Accidental Poisoning
  	She died two days after her father as a result of mercury poisoning from a drug being used to treat her for typhoid
  Burial	Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   [2]
  		Cemetery-Sleepy Hollow (Concord MA)
  		Grave-ALCOTT Louisa May
  Person ID	I20123	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Amos Bronson Alcott,   b. 29 Nov 1799, Wolcott, New Haven, Connecticut, USA d. 4 Mar 1888, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 88 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Abigail May,   b. 8 Oct 1800, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 25 Nov 1877, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 77 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	23 May 1830	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [7]
  Family ID	F8858	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 29 Nov 1832 - Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Death - Cause: Accidental Poisoning - 6 Mar 1888 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Little Women

  
  

• Sources

  [S535] Godfrey Memorial Library, comp., American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1999;). [S34] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Louisa May Alcott BIRTH 29 Nov 1832 Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA DEATH 6 Mar 1888 (aged 55) Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA BURIAL Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA MEMORIAL ID 14. Author. She is best known as the author of the novel "Little Women", which was published in 1869. Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, she grew up in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts, where her father, A. Bronson Alcott, was a noted educator and leader of a philosophical movement called transcendentalism. Her family friends and neighbors included the writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau, and these figures helped her to form her ideas about politics and social reform. When she was young, she began work to help support the family as a seamstress, a household servant, and later, as a teacher. Her first book, "Flower Fables" (1854), was a series of fairy stories that she would make up to tell children. During the Civil War, she served as a nurse for the Union Army in 1862 to 1863, and would use that experience for her first successful book, "Hospital Sketches" (1863). Her first novel, "Moods" was published the next year, and in 1868, she became editor of "Merry's Museum," a magazine for young girls. She then used her life experiences to write "Little Women" which was initially published in two parts, in 1868 and 1869, which provided her with financial security. In this book, her family was represented by the 'March family', and the character of 'Jo March' representing her. She would continue the story of the March family in later books, "Little Men" (1871) and "Jo's Boys" (1886). She also wrote novels for adults, but these were not as successful as her children's stories. She died two days after her father as a result of mercury poisoning from a drug being used to treat her for typhoid. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14 [S28] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). [S874] Heritage Consulting, Millennium File, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003;). [S518] Ancestry.com, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). [S693] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;). Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915 [S110] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Source number: 322.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: GAH.