In May, 1864, American author Nathaniel Hawthorne was laid to rest at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts. - AsNotedIn
In a patch of sunlight, flecked by the shade of tall, murmuring pines, at the summit of a gently swelling mound where the wild-flowers had climbed to find the light and the stirring of fresh breezes, the tired poet was laid beneath the green turf.
| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1864/05/18 | College friends, Franklin Pierce and Nathaniel Hawthorne, check in at the Pemigewasset House hotel (lost) in Plymouth. Rebuilt after a 1862 fire, the 4-story hotel could accommodate 300 guests at $3 per night. The building burned down in 1908. | Plymouth, New Hampshire |
| 1864/05/19 | At the Pemigewasset House hotel (lost) in Plymouth in New Hampshire, Franklin Pierce, checking on his friend in the adjoining room, discovers Nathaniel Hawthorne has passed away. | Plymouth, New Hampshire |
| 1864/05/23 | Louisa May Alcott serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA |
| 1864/05/23 | John Greenleaf Whittier serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA |
| 1864/05/23 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA |
| 1864/05/23 | James T Fields serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA |
| 1864/05/23 | Ralph Waldo Emerson serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA |
| 1864/05/23 | Pallbearers, including Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and John Greenleaf Whittier, carry Nathaniel Hawthorne's body to his grave at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA |
| 1864/05/23 | Edwin Percy Whipple serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA |
| 1864/05/23 | Oliver Wendell Holmes serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA |
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