Early Death
The day after the birth of her fourth child, in January 1865, Isabella contracted puerperal fever. She died a week later, aged 28. Her widower lived for another twelve years and died of tuberculosis in June 1877 at the age of 46.
Both are buried at West Norwood Cemetery in south London. The original memorial became dilapidated and her children replaced it with a simple headstone in the 1930s.
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