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May 19, 2016 · Seven years after his death, his wife, Sophia, died while in England and was buried in London's Kensal Green Cemetery along with their daughter Una, who died in 1877. In 2006, the bodies of Hawthorne's wife and daughter were unearthed from their English resting place and reinterred next to his side in Concord's Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
Hawthorne was buried on what is now known as "Authors' Ridge" in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts. Pallbearers included Longfellow, Emerson, Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. , James T. Fields , and Edwin Percy Whipple . [87]
Jun 27, 2006 · The remains of the wife and daughter of 19th-century author Nathaniel Hawthorne have been removed from their graves in England and re-interred alongside his grave in Concord, Mass. Although...
Sep 15, 2011 · Nathaniel Hawthorne’s grave at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mass. Photo credit: Rebecca Brooks Hawthorne suffered from poor health in the 1860s and died in his sleep during a trip to the White Mountains with Franklin Pierce on May 19, 1864.
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- He was the college classmate of another famous writer—and a president. In addition to meeting future president Franklin Pierce while attending Maine’s Bowdoin College, Hawthorne was a fellow member of the class of 1825 with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- He changed his last name in part to hide his family’s dark past. The novelist’s great-great-grandfather, John Hathorne, was a leading judge of the Salem witch trials, and Hawthorne was haunted by his ancestor’s shameful past.
- Hawthorne was the founding member of a utopian commune. In 1841, Hawthorne became a charter member of Brook Farm, an agricultural collective founded by Unitarian minister George Ripley near Boston.
- He lived in the same houses as two other famed Transcendental authors. In 1842, Hawthorne and his newlywed wife, Sophia, moved into the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, a homestead in which Ralph Waldo Emerson had previously composed the first draft of “Nature,” the essay that launched the Transcendental movement.
Jun 27, 2006 · They were urged to place flowers and significant objects in the coffin, which was slightly open and held mother and daughter. It was resealed and buried beside Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Oct 23, 2014 · Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts. He was the descendant of one of the first families to settle in Salem, the Hathornes. By the time he was born, the family name had fallen from its place of distinction. This was due to his great-great-grandfather, William Hathorne, and his great-grandfather, Colonel John Hathorne.
