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what happened to her after death>?

2007-03-23 10:52:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

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Abigail Adams.
Burial:
First Unitarian Church
Quincy
Norfolk County
Massachusetts, USA

b. Nov. 22 [Nov. 11, Old Style], 1744, Weymouth, Mass., U.S.
d. Oct. 28, 1818, Quincy, Mass.
née SMITH wife of John Adams, second president of the United States (1797-1801), and mother of John Quincy Adams, sixth president (1825-29). Even before becoming first lady, she was a prolific letter writer whose correspondence gives an intimate and vivid portrayal of life in the young republic.
Although her formal education was meagre, Abigail Adams was remarkably knowledgeable and an avid reader of history. Her marriage on Oct. 25, 1764, to John Adams, a young Boston lawyer, began a lifetime partnership of support and mutual respect that many considered an ideal union. For 10 years beginning in 1774, after the birth of four children, Mrs. Adams was largely separated from her husband at the family home in Quincy, while he attended to federal business at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. The enforced separation evoked a stream of letters, leading to the flowering of Mrs. Adams' genius as a correspondent. Her artless spontaneity brought the times to life with a charming blend of comments on minutiae of the day with observations on the momentous events of the Revolutionary period. She strongly supported the necessity of colonial independence from England, espoused the cause of women's rights, especially with regard to educational opportunities, and vigorously opposed slavery.

Following the peace treaty of 1783, Mrs. Adams joined her husband abroad while he served in diplomatic posts in Paris, The Hague, and London. Her letters to friends and family at home again provide a colourful commentary on manners and customs.

During the 12-year period when John Adams served as vice president and president of the United States (1789-1801), she moved back and forth between Massachusetts and Philadelphia (the temporary capital)--once more filling in the absences with her flowing commentary. In mid-November 1800 she became briefly the first mistress of the White House, newly built on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.

The Adamses spent the next 17 years in quiet retirement at the family home. Successive printings of Mrs. Adams' letters (1840, 1876, 1947, 1963) periodically revived public appreciation of her contribution to the original source material of the early American period.

2007-03-23 11:06:18 · answer #1 · answered by Retired 7 · 1 0

Abigail Adams died on October 28, 1818 of typhoid fever, and is buried beside her husband in a crypt located in the United First Parish Church (also known as the Church of the Presidents).

Her last words were "Do not grieve, my friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to go. And John, it will not be long."

An Adams Memorial is proposed in Washington, D.C., honoring Abigail, her husband, and other members of their family.

2007-03-24 00:25:24 · answer #2 · answered by catzpaw 6 · 0 0

Well, she was buried, then I suppose her mortal remains rotted away, since embalming wasn't a widespread practice at the time.

But why do you want to know what happened after she died? Her life was a whole lot more interesting.

I'd recommend the biography Dearest Friend, by Lynne Withey.

2007-03-23 14:43:49 · answer #3 · answered by Chrispy 7 · 0 0

She most likely decomposed.

2007-03-23 10:54:54 · answer #4 · answered by Year of the Monkey 5 · 1 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Adams

2007-03-23 11:08:31 · answer #5 · answered by tortiss 2 · 0 0

Well if she accepted Jesus as her personal savior she went to heaven if not she went to hell.

2007-03-23 10:55:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 2

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