Harriet Hemings's final days and date of death remain unknown. The entry after 1822 marks her documented departure from Monticello and subsequent survival, rather than a death in that year. She left slavery with Jefferson's knowledge and financial assistance, and later family recollections place her in the Washington area, living as a white woman and maintaining privacy about her origins. Those recollections are important to her later life, but do not establish an exact last address, medical history, burial, or cause of death. Her older sister, also called Harriet, had died in infancy; that child's death must not be assigned to the woman born in 1801. Likewise, the recorded deaths of her brothers and mother do not supply an endpoint to her own lifespan. The surviving evidence supports an escape from enslavement and a later life largely outside the plantation records, leaving the final chapter unresolved. No terminal illness or deathbed scene has been invented to fill that silence.