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Susan Bigelow (Sturgis)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Boston, Suffolk, MA, United States
Death: June 09, 1853 (27)
Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (took own life with arsenic, unborn child died as well; depression claimed lives of other family members)
Place of Burial: Cambridge, Middlesex, MA, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of William Sturgis, Esq. and Elizabeth (Eliza) Marston Sturgis
Wife of Dr. Henry Jacob Bigelow
Mother of Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow
Sister of William Watson Sturgis, III; Ellen H Hooper; Anne Hooper; Caroline Tappan and Mary Louisa Shaw

Managed by: Nancy D. Coon
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About Susan Bigelow

Susan took her own life by taking arsenic at age 27. Her unborn child also died. Depression ran through her family; it would eventually also claim the lives of her sister Ellen, her brother Ned, and her famous niece Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=90184685

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Susan Bigelow's Timeline

1825
September 14, 1825
Boston, Suffolk, MA, United States
1850
April 4, 1850
Boston, Suffolk, MA, United States
1853
June 9, 1853
Age 27
Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, MA, United States