Queer Places:
Du Pont de Nemours Cemetery, Wilmington, New Castle
County, Delaware, USA,
Sophie Madeleine DuPont (September 18, 1810 - January 9, 1888) was the
daughter of Eleuthere Irenee DuPont (1771–1834) and
Sophie Madeline Dalmas (1775–1828).
Eliza
Schlatter wrote to her friend Sophie DuPont in 1834, “I wish I could be
with you present in the body as well as the mind & heart—I would turn your
good husband out of bed—and snuggle into you and we would have a long talk
like old times.”
Sophie Dupont married her fist cousin Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont
(1803–1865).
She died at her home in Wilmington, Delaware. She had been ill but a few
days and her death was unexpected. She was seventy-eight years old.
My published books:
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- Rupp, Leila J.. A Desired Past (p.48). University of Chicago
Press. Edizione del Kindle.