Thank you for posting. I never knew that. I found another page that said she caught fire from an ember from the fireplace and that his attempts to put the fire out scarred his hands and face. He wrote one poem about his grief 18 years later titled “Cross of Snow.” There’s a picture (link below with the poem) that shows a cross of snow on a mountainside that he once saw and in his poem, said that he bore across his heart from the day of her death. Touching and sad.
http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/paintings&poems/longfellow.html
You can visit Longfellow’s house in Cambridge, MA. They have concerts there and talks about Longfellow and his family. It is right down the street from where the village blacksmith was located. The house is beautifully restored and looks out over a large park and the Charles River.
BTW Washington used the house as his headquarters for a while. Here are some pictures and history.
http://dlstewart.com/longfellow/CraigieHouse.htm