Dorothea Dix-eulogy

DOROTHEA LYNDE DIX
"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal."

Today we are here to celebrate the life of Dorothea Lynde Dix, born on April 4, 1802 in a small town called Hampton, Maine, daughter of Doctor Elijah Dix and Mary Bigelow. Even though Dorothea didn't exactly live the childhood most children would wish for she did accomplish a lot in her time. Some of the many things she accomplished was she was one of the most effective advocate's of humanitarian reform in American mental institutions, she helped and cared for people during the civil war, she taught new things to her family/ was a school teacher for 24 years, she helped to clean up prisons in the United States, she wrote her own book, got many different scholarships and also worked for years while not excepting pay.

Dorothea died of a terrible six year illness, in Trenton New Jersey on the 17th of July in the year of 1887. This illness was called Tuberculosis, which is an infectious disease that mostly attacks the lungs but can attack any part of your body, it is spread through person to person from the air.

Dorothea wasn't the kind of person who would want to be recognized and publicized, but we must still remember all of the great things she did to help improve the lives of others, strangers she didn't even know just to make this world a better place.

If you wish to pay you're respects Dorothea is going to be buried July 17, 1887 at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. Rest in peace Dorothea, and let your spirit live on.