A capped obelisk memorializes Eleanor Porter in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the city where she lived the last twenty of her fifty-one years. Alongside the column, four stones mark the graves of Eleanor, her older brother Fred, his wife Clara and Eleanor’s husband John Porter.
The Hodgmans, including EHP’s mother, Luella who died in 1917, and father, Frank Fletcher Hodgman (1876), are interred in Glenwood Cemetery in Littleton, NH. Please scroll down.
Eleanor rests by Culphea Path which oversees Halcyon Lake in prestigious Mount Auburn Cemetery. Within sight of Eleanor’s gravesite is that of Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), the discoverer of Christian Science, a New Hampshire native and contemporary of EHP. Indeed, this cemetery is home to the Who’s Who of 19th Century New England!
Francis Fletcher Hodgman
The Littleton grave of Eleanor Hodgman Porter’s father
Frank Hodgman died in 1876 when Eleanor was seven years old. He had been a druggist in Littleton, heir to a business owned by his father, Francis Hodgman. Soon after his father’s death, however, he was incapacitated by a virulent strain of tuberculosis. He shuttered the shop in 1870 and went in search of a cure. He died in Philadelphia and was buried with his parents in Littleton.
We thank Paul Wesley Harvey, the late sexton of Glenwood Cemetery, and researcher Roger Merrill for showing where the “other” Hodgmans were located! Both men have been enormous help with this and other local history projects.
The monument dates from the death of Frank’s father in 1864.
One side of the monument has Frank’sepitaph.
Luella Hodgman?
Eleanor’s mother in Littleton
According to the Death Certificate issued by the City of Cambridge, “Llewella (Luella) French Woolson” expired January 23, 1917 and was interred January 26, 1917. Her “Place of Burial or Removal” is Glenwood.
When Luella’s marker is found, we will add it here.
Where Eleanor and her family rest
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