| Show Long fellows evangeline result of story to poet evangeline of the poem was written as the result of a story communicated to lo 10 longfellow nig rellow long after the actual events occurred and one cannot be very definite on the facts behind it according to a writer in the detroit news in philadelphia there Is a tradition that evangeline wan wandered dered about new england all her lifetime and in her ol 01 old d age joined a sisterhood which cared for the sick la in the philadelphia almshouse alms bouse she elie found her lover on his deathbed and the shock 0 of f ills his death killed her both are believed to be burled buried in the cemetery of holy trinity Cat catholic bolic church there the other tra 1 Is that evangeline whose real name was emmeline Emm elloe labiche w was as ex lied fled with other acadians Acad lans ians to maryland bl ary a nd where they remained for three years and then made their way into louisiana soon after she landed she met her former lover who had plighted ill hla s troth to another A few months later late r she died of a broken heart and was wn burled buried near t the he evangeline oak at st martinville L la a A statue of her at 1831 1931 that place was dedicated in april longfellow in a letter to a philadelphia journalist mentions it how ow he came to select the philadelphia poorhouse and old catholic graveyard tor for the final scenes of ilia his poem this Is published in the preface e to evangeline in Long fellows complete poems |
