Mary Seacole’s Death – Cause and Date

Mary Seacole Death Cause and Date

Born (Birthday) November 23, 1805

Death Date May 14, 1881

Age of Death 75 years

Cause of Death Apoplexy

Profession Memoirist

The memoirist Mary Seacole died at the age of 75. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Remembered for her 1857 memoir Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, this Jamaican-born writer and nurse assisted soldiers during the Crimean War and fought for racial tolerance by openly celebrating her multi-ethnic heritage.

The child of a Scottish military man and a Jamaican medicine woman, she was born Mary Jane Grant and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. In the 1830s, she married Edwin Horatio Hamilton Seacole.