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About Cynthia Thoreau
Cynthia Dunbar, b. May 28, 1787, Keene, N.H.; moved to Concord Massachusetts with mother and stepfather in 1798; d. March 12, 1872; now bu. at Author's Ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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- Cynthia was outspoken, opinionated and sociable. She was known as a good homemaker and hostess. In addition to taking in boarders for income, she often brought the less-fortunate into her home for meals. She was active in the Concord Ladies Anti-slavery Society and made her Concord home a stop on the Underground Railroad.
- As a boy Thoreau was often called upon to drive his mother's cows to and from their grazing pastures and developed an early love of solitude and communion with nature.
- Cynthia outlived all her children but the youngest, Sophia, dying in 1872 just two months short of her 85th birthday.
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Cynthia Thoreau's Timeline
| 1787 |
May 28, 1787
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Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States
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| 1812 |
October 22, 1812
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Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1814 |
July 5, 1814
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Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1817 |
July 12, 1817
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Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1819 |
June 24, 1819
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Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1872 |
March 12, 1872
Age 84
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Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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