Livingstone's heart was buried in Zambia, his body was carried 1,000 miles to Westminster Abbey, and his son died in a Confederate prison under a false name

David Livingstone's 1857 book Missionary Travels earned him over £8,500, his first wealth. The government gave £5,000 for his Zambezi expedition and £500 for his last journey, and the industrialist James Young added £1,000. His wife Mary died at Shupanga in 1862. His eldest son Robert went to America. In January 1864 Robert enlisted in the 3rd New Hampshire Volunteers as a paid substitute under the name Rupert Vincent. He was captured on 7 October 1864, wounded in an escape attempt at Salisbury prison, North Carolina, on 25 November, and died on 5 December 1864. Livingstone died on 1 May 1873. His followers buried his heart under a mpundu tree, and Jacob Wainwright carved the date in the bark. Abdullah Susi, James Chuma and Wainwright embalmed the body and carried it about 1,000 miles over five months to Bagamoyo. In London the remains were identified by an arm a lion had crushed. He was buried in Westminster Abbey on 18 April 1874, and Wainwright was the only African among the eight pallbearers. Accounts differ on Chuma and Susi: one says they were dismissed at the coast with their expenses paid, another says they went to Britain to meet the family. Livingstone left £1,463 19s 6d. The tree was cut down in 1899. Its carved section is at the Royal Geographical Society, and a 1902 obelisk marks the site. His Blantyre birthplace reopened on 28 July 2021 after a £9.1m redevelopment led by the David Livingstone Trust.