Nancy Bramucci Sheads, Resurrecting Mount Auburn(http://mdhistoryonline.net/mtauburn/index.cfm : accessed 24 June 2013), entry for Araminta Simms.
From the Afro-America Ledger (Baltimore)
19 April 1902
Mrs. Araminta Simms, aged 73, died last Saturday from a dropsical affection. Mrs. Simms leaves behind several children and an aged husband; one son Mr. Geo. L. Simms is a trustee of Morgan College. Her funeral took place Monday from Metropolitan M.E. Church. Interment being in Sharp St. Cemetery.
Resurrecting Mount Auburn 
I like that: “a dropsical affection.”