According to her biographer, Linda Lear, there was some disagreement about the funeral arrangements for Rachel. Her brother, Robert Carson, insisted that her cremated remains be buried beside their mother in Maryland. This was against her own wishes to be buried in Maine. In the end, a compromise was reached. Carson's own wishes were carried out by an organizing committee, including her agent (Marie Rodell), her editor (Paul Brooks) and Dorothy Freeman. In the Spring of 1964, Dorothy received half of Rachel's ashes in the mail sent to her by Robert Carson. In the summer of that year, Dorothy carried out Rachel's final wishes, scattering her ashes along the rocky shores of Sheepscot Bay in Maine.