Voltairine de Cleyre [SEP] place of death
by the activities of anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón. Her last poem was dedicated to the Mexican activists.
De Cleyre died from septic meningitis on June 20, 1912, at St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. She is interred near the Haymarket defendants and other social activists at the Waldheim Cemetery (now Forest Home Cemetery) in Forest Park, a suburb west of Chicago. Goldman was later buried in this area of the cemetery as well.
Political beliefs.
De Cleyre changed her political perspective during her
suffering from severe depression, although at the time the cause of death was reported in the anarchist press as "fatty degeneration of the heart".
Life Relationship with Voltairine de Cleyre.
When Lum met Voltairine de Cleyre in 1888, he was twenty-seven years her elder and had lived a life rich in experience. They forged an "unshakable" friendship and Lum had a profound influence on de Cleyre's political development which evolved in an opposite direction to his as she started out as an orthodox Tuckerite individualist anarchist,