Charlotte Champe Stearns

Charlotte Champe Stearns (1843–1929), was a poet, social worker, and the mother of T. S. Eliot.

Early life and education

She was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She became a poet and social worker.^[1]

Married life

Stearns married Henry Ware Eliot on October 27, 1868, in Lexington, Massachusetts.^[1] They returned to Eliot's home city of Saint Louis, Missouri where they worked and reared their family. They had five daughters and two sons: Ada (Eliot) Sheffield; Margaret Dawes Eliot; Charlotte (Eliot) Smith; Marian Cushing Eliot; Henry Ware Eliot, Jr.; Theodora Sterling Eliot and Thomas Stearns Eliot.^[1]

Charlotte Eliot died in 1929 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was buried in Saint Louis by her husband at Bellefontaine Cemetery.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Find-a-Grave

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