Harriet Tubman Dies at Her Own Home in Auburn

Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia on March 10, 1913, at the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged in Auburn, New York, the charity home for poor and elderly Black New Yorkers that she herself had founded on her own property. She was in her early 90s, though her exact birth year was never settled even in her own lifetime. By then she had led roughly seventy enslaved people out of Maryland in the 1850s, served the Union Army as an armed scout and spy, and guided the raid at Combahee Ferry that freed more than 700 people, before spending her later decades on women's suffrage alongside Susan B. Anthony. She was buried three days later with military honors at Fort Hill Cemetery, following a funeral at Thompson Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church.