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Emily's health, like her sisters ', had been weakened by unsanitary conditions at home, the source of water being contaminated by runoff from the church's graveyard.

She became sick during her brother's funeral in September 1848.

Though her condition worsened steadily, she rejected medical help and all proffered remedies, saying that she would have " no poisoning doctor " near her.

She eventually died of tuberculosis, on 19 December 1848 at around two in the afternoon.

She was interred in the Church of St. Michael and All Angels family vault, Haworth, West Yorkshire.