Florence Nightingale Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Death == [[File:St Margarets FN grave.jpg|thumb|upright|The grave of Florence Nightingale in the churchyard of St Margaret's Church, [[Wellow, Hampshire|East Wellow]], Hampshire]] [[File:Belgium, Florence Nightingale,1939 issue.jpg|thumb|upright=1|In 1939 Belgium issued a [[semi-postal]] stamp in honour of Nightingale in recognition of her work with the Red Cross when in Belgium]] Florence Nightingale died peacefully in her sleep in her room at 10 [[South Street, Mayfair]], London, on 13 August 1910, at the age of 90.<ref>{{openplaque|6}}</ref>{{efn|Florence Nightingale, the famous nurse of the Crimean war and the only woman who ever received the Order of Merit, died yesterday afternoon at her London home. Although she had been an invalid for a long time, rarely leaving her room, where she passed the time in a half-recumbent position and was under the constant care of a physician, her death was somewhat unexpected. A week ago she was quite sick, but then improved and on Friday was cheerful. During that night alarming symptoms developed and she gradually sank until 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, when the end came. β ''New York Times'' (15 Aug 1910)<ref>{{cite news |title=Miss Nightingale Dies, Aged Ninety |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0512.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=15 August 1910 |access-date=21 July 2007 |archive-date=18 April 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060418002441/http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0512.html |url-status=live }}</ref>}} The offer of burial in [[Westminster Abbey]] was declined by her relatives and she is buried in the churchyard of St Margaret's Church in [[Wellow, Hampshire|East Wellow]], Hampshire, near Embley Park with a memorial with just her initials and dates of birth and death.<ref>[http://www.countryjoe.com/nightingale/joe_grave.jpg Photograph of Nightingale's grave] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061023163640/http://www.countryjoe.com/nightingale/joe_grave.jpg |date=23 October 2006 }}. countryjoe.com</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.countryjoe.com/nightingale/wellow.htm |title=Florence Nightingale: The Grave at East Wellow |publisher=Countryjoe.com |access-date=13 March 2010 |archive-date=10 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100910100858/http://www.countryjoe.com/nightingale/wellow.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> She left a large body of work, including several hundred notes that were previously unpublished.<ref name=Kelly>Kelly, Heather (1998). ''[http://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/126/ Florence Nightingale's autobiographical notes: A critical edition of BL Add. 45844 (England)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502151729/http://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/126/ |date=2 May 2012 }}'' (M.A. thesis) Wilfrid Laurier University</ref> A memorial monument to Nightingale was created in [[Carrara marble]] by Francis William Sargant in 1913 and placed in the cloister of the [[Santa Croce, Florence|Basilica of Santa Croce]], in Florence, Italy.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vojnovic |first1=Paola |title='Florence Nightingale: The Lady of the Lamp' in ''Santa Croce in Pink: Untold Stories of Women and their Monuments'' |year=2013 |publisher=Adriano Antonioletti Boratto |page=27}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page