Roxana Foote Beecher
(1775–1816)
BIRTH
1775
PLACE
Guilford, Connecticut
NAME
Roxana Foote
DEATH
September 23 or 24, 1816 (sources differ)
PLACE
Litchfield, Connecticut
FAMILY
MOTHER
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe
(1811-1896)
HUSBAND
Lyman Beecher
(1775–1863)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Roxana Foote Beecher was Harriet Beecher Stowe’s mother and the first wife of minister Lyman Beecher. The Stowe Center describes her as literate and interested in art, mathematics, and science.
EARLY LIFE
CAREER
DEATH
Roxana died in Litchfield in September 1816 after declining health. Charlotte Smith, a boarder in the Beecher household, described her final illness and the family's loss in a contemporary diary. A transcription of her gravestone in East Burying Ground records September 23, 1816; a separate family memorial in Guilford gives September 24. Historical accounts identify tuberculosis as the cause.
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