Sophia Peabody
Sophia Amelia Peabody , born the September 21st 1809 with Salem, in the Massachusetts - February 26th 1871, is a painter and a illustrator. She also published her newspaper and various articles.
The father of Peabody is the dentist Nathaniel Peabody, while his/her mother is very the Unitarienne Elizabeth Palmer. It has two brothers; his/her sisters are Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, the woman of Horace Mann.
The July 9th 1842, it and its neighbor, Nathaniel Hawthorne, marry with Boston, five years after their first meeting. One and the other was rather old at the time of their marriage (it was 32 years old it was at five days of its 36 years). Immediately after their marriage, they settle with the Old man Presbythère ( The Old Manse ) with Concord, a house which they rented with the reverend William Emerson. The next day, Hawthorne written with his/her Louisa sister: “We are as happy as people can the being, without making itself ridiculous, and could be even happier; but, by question of taste, we choose to limit us to this point. ”
Hawthorne had pressed Sophia Peabody for three years, as a letter proves it dated March 6th 1839. At the origin, Sophia was opposed to the marriage. Its health was fragile since childhood, and it was sometimes invalid. These troubles of health can come from a treatment - very running, then - which his/her father prescribed to him to look after the pains related to thorough teeth, which contained mercury.
They had three children: Una (born on March 3rd 1844), Julian (born on May 22nd 1846) and Rose (born on May 20th 1851).
Died, burial and reinterment
Nathaniel Hawthorne dies in 1864, and Sophia leaves with his/her three children in England. Six years afterwards, she dies of typhoid pneumonic, her Una oldest daughter following it soon. Mother and girl are buried with the cemetery of Kensal Green to London.
Rose founded a catholic religious order , the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, based in Hawthorne, in the State of New York. The maintenance of the tombs of Sophia and Una falls on this order. When these tombs required expensive repairs, it was suggested that the remainders of them women are moved on the concession of the Hawthorne family to Concord. In June 2006, the two bodies were buried in the family concession of the Cimetière of Sleepy Hollow. Funeral was organized for the descendants of the family with representatives of the Dominican Sisters, and a public ceremony was held with the Old Presbytery to mark the event.