Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Phoebe Hearst
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Death== She died at her home, [[Hacienda del Pozo de Verona]],<ref>{{cite web |title=PCAD - Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, House, Pleasanton, CA |url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/3370/ |website=pcad.lib.washington.edu |access-date=15 February 2021}}</ref> in [[Pleasanton, California]], aged 76, on April 13, 1919, during the worldwide [[Spanish flu|influenza epidemic of 1918β1919]], and was buried at [[Cypress Lawn Memorial Park]] in [[Colma, California]].<ref name=":1">{{Citation |title=Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842β1919) |url=http://www.hearstcastle.org/history/phoebe_hearst.asp |publisher=[[Hearst Castle]] |access-date=2007-06-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629092413/http://www.hearstcastle.org/history/phoebe_hearst.asp |archive-date=2007-06-29 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Mrs. Phoebe Hearst Dies in California. Her Son, W.R. Hearst, at Her Bedside When the End Came. Lived on the Frontier. Gave Millions to University of California and Cathedral School for Girls. Her Gifts to Art and Education. A Leader in Washington. |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9807E7D71E39E13ABC4C52DFB2668382609EDE |quote=[[Pleasanton, California]], April 13, 1919. Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, widow of George Hearst, who was United States Senator from California, and mother of William Randolph Hearst, the publisher, died at her home here today, after an illness of several weeks. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 13, 1919 |url-access=subscription |access-date=May 20, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Buried at Cypress: A Billionaire and a Medical Mystery |url=https://www.cypresslawn.com/blog/buried-cypress-billionaire-medical-mystery/ |website=Cypress Lawn |date=4 September 2019 |access-date=19 February 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210219031340/https://www.cypresslawn.com/blog/buried-cypress-billionaire-medical-mystery/ |archive-date=19 February 2021 |quote=Phoebe Hearst commissioned the mausoleum, which is a reproduction of the Temple of Athena Nike in the Acropolis and features 16 granite columns. |url-status=live }}</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Phoebe Hearst
(section)
Add topic