she was poisoned with mercury and died on march 6th 1888
Louisa May Alcott died on March 6, 1888 at the age of 55.
55 years, 3 months and 6 days old
She died at the age of 56 years old in Boston on March 6, 1888 of mercury poisoning that she got from the civil war.
Elizabeth Alcott died of consumption, a common term at the time for tuberculosis, on March 14, 1958.