Dorothea Dix, Grave
- Title
- Dorothea Dix, Grave
- Biographical Text
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Stone headstone denoting Dix’s name.
Dix is buried in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she campaigned for the conditions of the mentally ill. In Mount Auburn Cemetery are also the graves of several of Dix’s supporters including senator Charles Sumner, educator Horace Mann, and Samuel Gridley Howe. - Text
- DOROTHEA L. DIX
- Type
- English Grave
- Bibliographic Citation
- Dorothea Lynde Dix, Find a Grave
- Dorothea Dix (1802 - 1887), Mount Auburn Cemetery
- Project Researcher
- Bysterbusch, Hailey