Lizzie Borden

:This article is about the Lizzie Borden made famous by the nursery rhyme; for the film-maker, see Lizzie Borden (filmmaker)

Later life

After the trial, Lizzie and Emma split their inheritance and bought a much larger house up on the hill which Lizzie christened Maplecroft. She also changed her name from Lizzie to Lizbeth. Apparently Lizzie was a great lover of the theater, animals, and poetry. Above her fireplace in Maplecroft was emblazoned the following:

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:And old-time friends & twilight plays,

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:And starry nights, and sunny days

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:Come trooping up the misty ways

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:When my fire burns low.

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Many Fall River residents still believed in her guilt and as a result, she was ostracized to some degree. More than a dozen years after the murders, she and her sister became estranged ? and after Emma left Maplecroft in 1905, the two lived apart until their deaths in 1927.

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Lizzie Borden died of complications from gall bladder surgery on June 1, 1927, at the age of sixty-six. Emma died nine days later. One-seventh of Lizzie's considerable estate was left to the Animal Rescue League of Fall River and the remainder to those friends and servants who stayed loyal to her over the years.

Related Topics:
Gall bladder - Surgery - June 1 - 1927 - Animal Rescue League of Fall River

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