Mabel Loomis Todd - Amherst, MA
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N 42° 23.471 W 072° 30.608
18T E 704943 N 4696213
The grave of editor and author Mabel Loomis Todd is located in Wildwood Cemetery at 70 Strong Street in Amherst, MA.
Waymark Code: WM12GXA
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 05/26/2020
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The grave of Mabel Loomis Todd is marked by a slate headstone and a ground level marker. The headstone contains the image of flowers in the lunette and is inscribed:
IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
Mabel Loomis Todd
10TH NOVEMBER 1856 14TH OCTOBER 1932
DAUGHTER OF
EBEN JENKS AND MARY ALDEN WILDER LOOMIS
WIFE OF
DAVID TODD
That such have died enables us
The tranquiller to die
That such have lived certificate
For immortality
The verse is Poem 1030 by Emily Dickinson Poem 1030. It appears in Poems: Third Series (1896) by Emily Dickinson, edited by: Mabel Loomis Todd. In the original poem the last two lines are:
That such have lived
Certificate for immortality.
The ground level marker is inscribed:
MABEL LOOMIS TODD
FOUNDER
MARY MATTOON CHAPTER D.A.R. 1894
AMHERST HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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