Lucretia Mott died at her home near Abington, Pennsylvania, at age 87, after a lifetime of abolitionist and women's rights advocacy.
Lucretia Mott died on November 11, 1880, at her home, "Roadside," near Abington, Pennsylvania, at the age of 87. By the time of her death, she was widely revered as one of the founding mothers of both the American abolitionist and women's rights movements, having remained active in reform causes well into her eighties.
Her funeral drew a large crowd of mourners, reportedly including both prominent reformers and ordinary citizens whose lives she had touched through decades of activism, ministry, and humanitarian work. Newspapers across the country marked her passing as the loss of one of the last surviving founders of the organized abolitionist movement and a pioneering architect of American feminism.
Mott's death came fifteen years before the founding of the National American Woman Suffrage Association's later strategic phase and forty years before American women would finally win the right to vote with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920—a milestone she did not live to see but had worked tirelessly toward since at least 1840. Her legacy endured through the generations of activists she mentored, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and through institutions she helped found, such as Swarthmore College. She is buried in Fair Hill Burial Ground in Philadelphia, a historic Quaker cemetery, alongside other notable abolitionists.