Biography | Elizabeth Blackwell — The Churchyard on the Holy Loch She Asked For

People treat Blackwell's last address as Rock House in Hastings. The grave is here. She died at Hastings on 31 May 1910 after a stroke, aged eighty-nine. A service was held at St Clement's, Hastings, on 4 June. The next day she was buried in the churchyard of St Munn's Parish Church at Kilmun, on the north shore of the Holy Loch. The church that stands is the 1841 rebuilding. A medieval tower ruin sits beside it. The Argyll Mausoleum holds Campbell dukes. Blackwell asked for this yard because she had holidayed at the Kilmun Hotel. In August 1905 she wrote in the register that this was her fourth visit and that the air seemed more invigorating each time. In 1907 she fell down the hotel stairs. She never fully recovered. Kitty Barry, the Irish orphan she had adopted in New York in the 1850s, came with her on those holidays. Historic Kilmun now holds the church and yard after a community buy-out. The grave is public. Keep voices down around other stones. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, licence as marked on the file page