Death of Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony died on March 13, 1906. She had outlived Matilda Joslyn Gage, who died in 1898, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who died in 1902. But she never saw her goal of winning woman’s suffrage realized. Nationwide woman suffrage was only achieved on August 26, 1920, with adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In tribute to her leadership, it was sometimes referred to as the "Susan B. Anthony Amendment."

Anthony was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester’s premier memorial park. Anthony reposes beneath a rather modest white marker on a family plot; the marker has suffered from weathering and is somewhat difficult to read. The grave can be found in Section C, Plot 93; several helpful markers guide visitors from the cemetery’s internal thoroughfare, Linden Avenue.