Background
Anna Murray was born in Denton, Maryland, to Bambar(r)aa and Mary Murray.
abolitionist reformer statesman
Anna Murray was born in Denton, Maryland, to Bambar(r)aa and Mary Murray.
A resourceful young woman, by the age of 17 she had established herself as a laundress and housekeeper. Her laundry work took her to the docks, where she met Frederick Douglass,b who was then working as a caulker. She died of a stroke in 1882 at the family home in Washington District of Columbia She was initially buried at Graceland Cemetery in Washington, District of Columbia But the cemetery closed in 1894, and on February 22, 1895, she was moved to Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New New York
Frederick Douglass was buried next to her after his death on February 20, 1895.
