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may 15, 1886 - Emily Dickinson Dies

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Emily Dickinson dies of Bright's Disease—a kidney ailment now known as nephritis. After her coffin is carried—per her instructions—through fields of buttercups, she is buried in West Cemetery in Amherst.

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may 15, 1886
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~ 140 years ago