Helen Pitts Douglas, Grave

Title: Helen Pitts Douglas, Grave
Biographical Text: Stone grave ledger describing Douglas’s life and her impact on shaping the legacy of her late husband, Frederick Douglas.
Douglas is buried next to her husband in Mount Hope Cemetery, in Rochester, New York. She originally wished to be buried on the site of Cedar Hill (the home of the Douglas family where she had established the Frederick Douglas Historical and Memorial Association) and have her husband reinterred from Rochester and buried next to her. However, laws surrounding burials in Washington D.C. made this complicated and impossible.
Text: HELEN PITTS DOUGLAS
1838 – 1903
WIDOW OF ORATOR AND STATESMAN
FREDERICK DOUGLAS
THROUGH HER VISION
HIS GREATNESS WAS MEMORIALIZED
AT CEDAR HILL IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
MRS. DOUGLAS WAS THE FOUNDER OF
THE FREDERICK DOUGLAS HISTORICAL
AND MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
Type: English Grave
Bibliographic Citation: Helen Pitts Douglas, Find a Grave; Helen Pitts Douglas, Suffragist born, African American Registry
Project Researcher: Bysterbusch, Hailey

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