At age six, Elizabeth was in the Old Colony steam train wreck in Quincy, Massachusetts on August 19, 1890. She was traveling home to Kentucky with her family from a summer holiday on Nantucket. The train carrying the group was derailed due to a jack left on the tracks. Twenty-two passengers were killed, most due to the boiling hot steam which filled several compartments.
The accident took the lives of Elizabeth's two younger sisters Katherine and Alice, her mother, paternal grandmother, an aunt, and a cousin. Her father had stayed home in Kentucky to attend to business and was not with them.
Elizabeth herself was badly scalded on the lower half of her body but survived. Her father stayed with her in Massachusetts for two months until she was well enough to travel back to Kentucky in early November. The joint funeral for the six Fenley family members who had died in the train wreck was held on November 10, 1890. All were buried at Cave Hill Cemetery.
At age 31, after a long period of depression, Elizabeth committed suicide by jumping from an eight-story loft building in New York, where she had gone in search of treatment for "nervous troubles".
The accident took the lives of Elizabeth's two younger sisters Katherine and Alice, her mother, paternal grandmother, an aunt, and a cousin. Her father had stayed home in Kentucky to attend to business and was not with them.
Elizabeth herself was badly scalded on the lower half of her body but survived. Her father stayed with her in Massachusetts for two months until she was well enough to travel back to Kentucky in early November. The joint funeral for the six Fenley family members who had died in the train wreck was held on November 10, 1890. All were buried at Cave Hill Cemetery.
At age 31, after a long period of depression, Elizabeth committed suicide by jumping from an eight-story loft building in New York, where she had gone in search of treatment for "nervous troubles".
At age six, Elizabeth was in the Old Colony steam train wreck in Quincy, Massachusetts on August 19, 1890. She was traveling home to Kentucky with her family from a summer holiday on Nantucket. The train carrying the group was derailed due to a jack left on the tracks. Twenty-two passengers were killed, most due to the boiling hot steam which filled several compartments.
The accident took the lives of Elizabeth's two younger sisters Katherine and Alice, her mother, paternal grandmother, an aunt, and a cousin. Her father had stayed home in Kentucky to attend to business and was not with them.
Elizabeth herself was badly scalded on the lower half of her body but survived. Her father stayed with her in Massachusetts for two months until she was well enough to travel back to Kentucky in early November. The joint funeral for the six Fenley family members who had died in the train wreck was held on November 10, 1890. All were buried at Cave Hill Cemetery.
At age 31, after a long period of depression, Elizabeth committed suicide by jumping from an eight-story loft building in New York, where she had gone in search of treatment for "nervous troubles".
The accident took the lives of Elizabeth's two younger sisters Katherine and Alice, her mother, paternal grandmother, an aunt, and a cousin. Her father had stayed home in Kentucky to attend to business and was not with them.
Elizabeth herself was badly scalded on the lower half of her body but survived. Her father stayed with her in Massachusetts for two months until she was well enough to travel back to Kentucky in early November. The joint funeral for the six Fenley family members who had died in the train wreck was held on November 10, 1890. All were buried at Cave Hill Cemetery.
At age 31, after a long period of depression, Elizabeth committed suicide by jumping from an eight-story loft building in New York, where she had gone in search of treatment for "nervous troubles".
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