after "a few days illness". The illness turned out to be a deadly case of smallpox, and her death left her two children, Aaron and Sarah Burr, as orphans, Burr and his sister went to live with their wealthy maternal uncle Timothy Edwards in a cramped, crowded environment. Aaron Burr, Sr. had died previously in September 1757. Sarah Edwards, her mother, died soon after in October 1758 Esther, along with the rest of the Edwards family, where buried together at the Bridge Street Cemetery in Northampton. After Esther's death in Princeton, on April 7, 1758. Sarah Prince was nearly inconsolable. "My whole dependance for Comfort in this World [is] gone," Sarah wrote in her personal book of meditations. "[Esther] was dear to me as the Apple of my Eye- she knew and felt all my griefs..." In popular culture Theatre and film Aaron Burr Jr. is featured in the hit Broadway show "Hamilton", played by Leslie Odom Jr., Aaron Burr mentions Esther twice in the first half of the musical. Esther is personified by a female ensemble member during "Wait For It" after Leslie Odom Jr. playing the role of Aaron Burr Jr. sings the line "My Mother was a genius" and then proceeds to sing, "when they (Esther Edwards Burr and Aaron Burr Sr.) died they left no instructions, just a legacy to protect", implying that they didn't tell Aaron Burr Jr. anything before she died, Esther is briefly also mentioned in "Aaron Burr, Sir". References Colonial American women American diarists Women diarists People of colonial Massachusetts People of colonial New Jersey 1732 births 1758 deaths Esther Edwards Jonathan Edwards family American people of English descent Mothers of vice presidents of the United States 18th-century diarists