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Bookmark or Share- Mitchell, Alice - Encyclopedia.comAlice Mitchell, the living historical person, was committed to the state mental hospital where she died in 1898, at the age of 25. Reports in the press claimed she died of tuberculosis, then widespread in such institutions.
- Love and Death at the River's Edge: the Story of Alice Mitchell and ...Alice died on March 31, 1898, at the age of 25. The official cause was “consumption” or tuberculosis, while her death certificate states only “non-contagious.” Another story says that Alice drowned herself in the water tank atop the asylum. She is buried in the family plot at Elmwood Cemetery.
- Alice & Freda: In 1892, Memphis girls' young love ends tragically ...The young murder victim died in 1892 after her former spurned girlfriend, Alice Mitchell, slashed her throat. It’s not clear why Freda Ward was buried without a grave marker in 1892 in her church’s cemetery plot at Elmwood.
- The Significant, Sad Case Of Alice Mitchell, Told By Alexis Coe inAfter several failed murder attempts, nineteen-year-old Alice slit her love Freda’s throat with a razor. Freda attempted to leave on a steamer, and Alice stopped her for good, turning a cold winter day into a desperate scene on the docks.
- Timeline: Alice Mitchell/Freda Ward Murder, 1892-1992 - OutHistory1892-01-25: Alice Mitchell cuts the throat of Freda Ward in Memphis, TN, after Ward rejects Mitchell for a male suitor. 1892-01-27: "United in Death: A Tragedy Almost Identical with that of Monday: A Girl's Love for a Girl: How It Caused a Murder and a Suicide Twenty Years Ago."
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