year, where she continued to board until 1860. She left the school to take up residence with her sister in Bloomfield, Connecticut, where she died on August 12, 1884, aged 77. She was buried in an unmarked grave in the West Hill Cemetery. Notes References Howe, Samuel Gridley, "Julia Brace." Manuscript draft of first portion of Appendix C of the Eleventh Annual Report of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind. Sanborn Brown Autograph Collection, Special Collections, Dartmouth College Library. External links Julia Brace biography 1807 births 1884 deaths American deafblind people People from Bloomfield, Connecticut People from Hartford, Connecticut