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224 mediate cause of her death was the rupture of a blood-vessel. She was aware of her situation, knew when she was dying, and met her last hour with perfect composure.”

She was buried in the Cincinnati Spring Grove Cemetery, said to be the finest west of the Alleghenies. Over her remains an elegant marble monument has been erected, and, it is said, at the expense of her daughter, Frances Sylvia D’Arusmont. A bas-relief portrait of Frances Wright ornaments it, and it bears the following inscription:

“FRANCES WRIGHT, Born in Dundee, Scotland, Sept. 1795. Passed to Spirit life from Cincinnati, Dec. 1852.

“I have wedded the cause of human improvement; staked on it my fortune, my reputation, and my life.

“Human kind is but one family; the education of its youth should be equal and universal.”