According to Vermont death records, Carrie Lena Sturgeon Walbridge of Burlington, Vermont, died March 24, 1917. The young homemaker, who was just over two weeks shy of her 22nd birthday, suffered an air embolism during an attempted abortion.
New Hampshire marriage records indicate that Carrie and her husband, Earl, married when she was 18 and he was 21 in 1913.
There's no further information that I can find about Carrie's death.
According to research by both Planned Parenthood and author Nancy Howell-Lee, about 90% of pre-legalization abortions were performed by doctors. Howell-Lee broke down the remaining 10% and found that the bulk of them were perpetrated by somebody with medical training, such as a nurse or dentist. So Carrie most likely found a doctor to abort her baby.
Additional source: New Hampshire Death and Disinterment Records
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