getting worse, and so she moved to a ranch in northeast New Mexico for her health. In 1908, Dabbs knew that she was in an advanced stage of the disease and would face an "agonizing death by massive hemorrhaging." She saw each of her daughters and said goodbye before she took her own life on August 19, 1908 with chloroform. Her body was buried in Quay County, New Mexico in an anonymous grave for victims of tuberculosis. References Citations Sources External links Letter from Ellen Lawson Dabbs to John Patterson Osterhout, March 6, 1899 1853 births 1908 suicides American midwives American suffragists American women physicians People from Fort Worth, Texas People from Rusk County, Texas People from St. Louis People from Sulphur Springs, Texas People from Waurika, Oklahoma Physicians from Texas Suicides by poison Suicides in New Mexico 19th-century American women writers Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century